Sabina Hafner

Sabina Hafner
nation	Switzerland
birthday	May 10, 1984
place of birth	Liestal ,  Switzerland
size	168 cm
Weight	63 kg
job	Electronics technician
Career
discipline	Two-man bobsleigh, skeleton
society	firecracker, Liestal / Bobclub Frauenfeld
status	active
Medal table
World Cup medals 0 × 1 × 1 × EM medals 0 × 1 × 0 × JWM medals 3 × 1 × 1 × National medals 6 × 4 × 0 ×
Bobsleigh and Skeleton World Championships silver Lake Placid 2009 team bronze St. Moritz 2007 team  European bobsleigh championships silver Igls 2010 Two-man bobsleigh  Bobsleigh Junior World Championships gold 2007 Altenberg Two-man bobsleigh gold 2009 Königssee Two-man bobsleigh gold 2010 St. Moritz Two-man bobsleigh silver 2005 Winterberg Two-man bobsleigh bronze 2006 Igls Two-man bobsleigh Swiss championships gold 2004/05 Two-man bobsleigh gold 2005/06 Two-man bobsleigh gold 2008/09 Two-man bobsleigh gold 2009/10 Two-man bobsleigh gold 2010/11 Two-man bobsleigh gold 2016/17 Two-man bobsleigh silver 2003/04 Two-man bobsleigh silver 2006/07 Two-man bobsleigh silver 2007/08 Two-man bobsleigh silver 2014/15 Two-man bobsleigh
Placements in the Bobsleigh World Cup
Debut in the World Cup 2004
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

1. ↑ 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.