Patrice Servelle
Patrice Servelle 
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 Monaco
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| birthday | 20th July 1974 | ||||||||
| place of birth | Monte Carlo | ||||||||
| size | 183 cm | ||||||||
| Weight | 90 kg | ||||||||
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| discipline | Two and four-man bobsleigh | ||||||||
| position | pilot | ||||||||
| Trainer | Bruno Mingeon | ||||||||
| status | active | ||||||||
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| last change: December 4th 2010 | |||||||||
Patrice Servelle (born July 20, 1974 in Monte Carlo ) is a Monegasque bobsleigh athlete . Initially Servelle was a pusher in Albert Grimaldi's bobsleigh, later he became a pilot himself and in December 2010 was the first Monegasse to reach the podium in the bobsleigh World Cup .
Career
Servelle's career as a bobsleigh driver began in 1994. Initially, Monegasse, one of nine bobsleigh athletes in his nation, pushed the four-man bobsleigh of Albert Grimaldi , heir to the throne of the principality at the time. In this role Servelle took part - as the youngest representative of his country at the age of 27 - for the first time in the Olympic Winter Games, which took place in 2002 in Salt Lake City . In the four-man bobsleigh, the Monegasque finished in 28th place, leaving the last-placed Taiwanese behind by about half a second. The start in the two-man bobsleigh was more successful, where Servelle and his partner Sébastien Gattuso achieved 22nd place out of 37 participants.
In the following years, after Albert's resignation, Patrice Servelle established himself as a pilot of the Monegasque bobsleigh, he drove both the two-man and the four-man bobsleigh. In February 2004, Servelle and Gattuso had an unexpected success in the two-man bobsleigh, when they finished fourth at the 2004 World Cup, the best result ever for Monaco at a World Cup. For a long time Servelle could not build on this result. Until 2010 he made it into the top ten in the World Cup several times and also fought a respectable twelfth and 19th place at the 2006 Winter Olympics in Turin and 2010 in Vancouver , but he never took part in the battle for the medals a.
The 2010/11 season began very successfully for Servelle. After winning three races in the low-class America's Cup in November 2010 , he and his partner Lascelles Brown were the first Monegasque bobsleigh riders on the podium in the World Cup at the beginning of December in Calgary . Last but not least, Servelle was able to benefit from his new pusher Brown, who was able to win Olympic medals as a pusher for Pierre Lueders and Lyndon Rush in Canadian bobsleds. In second place, they drove the same time as the German duo Machata / Andreas Bredau and were only two tenths slower than Karl Angerer's winning bobsleigh .
Servelle is in a relationship with the Canadian bobsleigh pilot Helen Upperton .
Web links
- Profile and results from 2004 on fibt.com
- Patrice Servelle in the Sports-Reference database (English; archived from the original )
Individual evidence
- ↑ Bob: Prince Albert says goodbye to "great love" ( page no longer available , search in web archives ) Info: The link was automatically marked as defective. Please check the link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. on rp-online.de. Released January 31, 2001. Accessed December 4, 2010.
- ↑ Bobsleigh World Cup: Goldjunge Langen wins silver ( page no longer available , search in web archives ) Info: The link was automatically marked as defective. Please check the link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. on rp-online.de. Published on February 22nd, 2004. Accessed on December 4th, 2010. "The best result for Monaco at a World Cup in all sports was achieved completely surprisingly by Patrice Servelle ..."
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| SURNAME | Servelle, Patrice |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | Monegasque bobsledder |
| DATE OF BIRTH | 20th July 1974 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Monte Carlo |