Pavle Jovanovic

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Pavle Jovanovic (born January 11, 1977 in Toms River , † May 3, 2020 ) was an American bobsledder .

Pavle Jovanovic has been bobsleigh since 1997. He made his international debut in the World Cup in the 1998/99 season in the bobsleigh of his future coach Brian Shimer . Since the 2000/01 season, Jovanovic drove with Todd Hays . With him he won six world cup races in the two-man and four-man bobsleigh. At the 2004 Bobsleigh World Championships in Königssee , he won the bronze medal in the four-man bobsleigh. In the two-man bobsleigh, Hays / Jovanovic finished seventh. At the World Championships in Calgary the following year , he started in Hays' four-man bobsleigh and finished fifth. After the 2006 Olympic Games of Turin , where he was in the four seventh, Hays ended his career. Jovanovic then switched to Steven Holcomb like most of Hays' old crew . With this he won three world cup races in the four-man bobsleigh and was fourth in the four-man bobsleigh at the 2007 Bobsleigh World Cup in Turin.

In December 2001, Jovanovic's drugs were found in a doping test. The athlete, who at that time to the Olympic Games of Salt Lake City was preparing, was subsequently banned for two years. In 2003 he returned to the sport.

In May 2020, Pavle Jovanovic committed suicide at the age of 43.

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Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Former US Olympic bobsledder Pavle Jovanovic this at 43. In: USA Today. May 10, 2020, accessed May 10, 2020 (American English).
  2. ↑ http://www.ergogenics.org/153.html
  3. ↑ http://www.sfgate.com/sports/article/OLYMPIC-SPOTLIGHT-Pavle-Jovanovic-Back-on-2523630.php
personal data
SURNAME Jovanovic, Pavle
BRIEF DESCRIPTION American bobsledder
DATE OF BIRTH January 11, 1977
PLACE OF BIRTH Toms River
DATE OF DEATH May 3, 2020