Tyler Botha

Tyler Botha
nation	South Africa
birthday	3rd December 1980
place of birth	Cape Town
size	196 cm
Weight	96 kg
Career
society	St Moritz Tobogganing Club
Trainer	Simon Schwemmer
status	active
Placements in the WC / EC / NAC / IC
Debut in the European Cup January 2003 Debut North American Cup November 2000
last change: March 30, 2011

Tyler Botha (born December 3, 1980 in Cape Town ) is a former South African skeleton athlete and still an active Cresta driver.

Tyler Botha lives in Cape Town. He started skeleton in 2003, has participated in international races since 2004 and was trained by Simon Schwemmer. After not taking part in the FIBT Skeleton School in 2003 as planned , he took part in it in 2004. This was followed by his first use in November 2004 in Igls in the European Skeleton Cup , where he was 25th. Further appearances in the European Cup and the Skeleton Challenge Cup followed . In the European Cup, a 13th place in Koenigssee was the best result in December 2005 , in the Challenge Cup he was twice second in the same place a month later, first behind David Connolly , in the second race behind Nicola Nimac . The high point and the end of his career were the Olympic Winter Games in Turin , in which Botha finished 12th.

In addition, Botha, who is also a member of the St Moritz Tobogganing Club in St. Moritz , was also active as a Cresta driver. With a time of 41.09 seconds, he is the second fastest driver in history from the lower starting point Junction and in 50.64 seconds the fifth fastest driver from the normal start. In the 2010/11 season he won six races, including the Curzon Cup and the Morgan Cup. Botha works as a DJ.

Web links

• Profile on skeletonsport.com ( Memento from October 28, 2004 in the Internet Archive )
• Tyler Botha in the database of the International Bobsleigh & Skeleton Association
• Tyler Botha in the Sports-Reference database (English; archived from the original )
• Results of the Cresta races