Bonny Warner

Bonny Susan Warner ( born April 7, 1962 in Mount Baldy, California) is a former American luger and Bobsportlerin.

Bonny Warner, who took internationally for the U.S. Luge Association, belonged to the middle and in the second half of the 1980s to the world's best luger interior. In 1980, she came as a torchbearer for the Olympic Winter Games in Lake Placid for the first time with the sport into contact. Without claiming to be German, she went to Germany and there learned the sport. In 1984 she entered in Sarajevo to its first Olympic Winter Games, finishing in 15th place. In Lake Placid in 1987 she could win her only race in the World Cup. Besides Cammy Myler and Erica Terwillegar it is therefore the only American woman who could ever win a World Cup race. In the overall standings of the season they finished together with Gabriele Kohlisch behind Cerstin Schmidt and Marie -Luise Rainer third. Law successfully ran the Olympic Games in Calgary in 1988 with a sixth. Less well she cut four years later than the 18th from Albertville. After the Games, she finished her career first.

In 1999, she began while vacationing in Lake Placid with the Bobs, the women's event was added to the 2002 Winter Olympic Games in the Olympic competition program. With her brakeman Vonetta Flowers, however, they failed to qualify despite good performances at the Bob World Cup, as the third in the overall standings of the season 2000/ 01, to the games.

Warner studied at Stanford University, first civil engineering, later she changed under the impact of their sport for television journalism. In 1988 she was awarded a bonus of $ 10,000 from the National Olympic Committee, the money they invested in training as a flight instructor. Her husband, a firefighter, she met when he was one of their flight students. The couple, Warner since their marriage in 1996 called Bonny Simi, has a daughter (* 1998). Bill Graham was also one of their flight students. From 1990 to 2004 she worked for United Airlines, since for JetBlue - first as a pilot, now in management. From 1980 to 1996 Warner was a representative of luge and bobsledding member of the National Olympic Committee of the United States. At the games in 1994 in Lillehammer, 1998 in Sapporo and 2002 in Salt Lake City, she worked as a commentator for CBS Sports.