Sabina Hafner
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nation | Switzerland | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
birthday | May 10, 1984 | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
place of birth | Liestal , Switzerland | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
size | 168 cm | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Weight | 63 kg | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
job | Electronics technician | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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discipline | Two-man bobsleigh, skeleton | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
society | firecracker, Liestal / Bobclub Frauenfeld | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
status | active | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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last change: July 27, 2014 |
Sabina Hafner (born May 10, 1984 in Liestal , Basel-Landschaft ) is a Swiss bobsleigh athlete and skeleton pilot .
Career
Sabina Hafner started bobsleigh in 2003 and won her first European Cup race in St. Moritz in the 2003/04 season . In the following season she won her first title at the Swiss Championship and silver at the Junior World Championship and finished 4th at the 2005 Bobsleigh World Championship in Calgary .
In the following years she achieved medals at Junior World Championships and Swiss Championships and several top 10 placements in the Bobsleigh World Cup . Her best result was second place in the 2004/05 season in St. Moritz.
She was part of the Swiss teams that won bronze at the 2007 World Championships in St. Moritz and silver in Lake Placid in 2009 . In addition, she joined the Olympic Winter Games in 2006 in Turin and in 2010 in Vancouver and took there places 10 and 12. In the 2010 European Championships in Igls , she won the silver medal.
In 2011 Hafner switched to skeleton and started in the European Cup . She had a hard crash in the first race in Königssee and suffered a concussion, but the season was still over. As a result, she decided to turn her back on competitive sport for the time being and study electrical engineering.
In the 2016/17 season she returned to active sport and started in the Bobsleigh European Cup, in which she won two competitions. At the 2017 Bobsleigh World Championships in Königssee , she came 14th with Eveline Rebsamen . In the 2017/18 World Cup season , she finished 9th. At the 2018 Winter Olympics in Pyeongchang she competed with Rahel Rebsamen as a pusher and came in 9th.
Web links
- Sabina Hafner in the database of the International Bobsleigh & Skeleton Association
- Sabina Hafner in the Sports-Reference database (English; archived from the original )
- Website of the firecracker team
Individual evidence
- ↑ Basellandschaftliche Zeitung of November 22, 2012. Retrieved on July 27, 2014 ( Memento of the original of September 23, 2015 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice.
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SURNAME | Hafner, Sabina |
BRIEF DESCRIPTION | Swiss bobsleigh athlete and skeleton pilot |
DATE OF BIRTH | May 10, 1984 |
PLACE OF BIRTH | Liestal |