Cathleen Martini

2 (2004/ 05, 2007/ 08, 2008/ 09)

Cathleen Martini ( born May 27, 1982 in Zwickau ) is a German Bobpilotin and part of the German national team in women's bobsleigh.

Career

From 1992 to 2000 Martini worked in luge, then she switched to bobsledding. 2003, 2007, 2008 and 2009 she won the second place at the German Championships in the two-man bob. In the 2000 /01 season they won the Junior World Cup overall title. In the Bob World Championships she won three times second and once third. Three times they won the first three times and second place in the European Championships Bob. Junior World Champion in 2006 in Innsbruck- hedgehog. 2005, 2008, 2009, she won the second, in 2007 and 2010, third place in the overall World Cup. After the 2008/ 09 season, the longtime brakeman Janine Tischer joined the team of Sandra Kiriasis. For the brakeman Romy Logsch joined the team of Cathleen Martini.

2010 had Martini by a mistake in the 4th round of the Olympic Zweierbobwettkampfes in Vancouver an accident in which toppled the two-man bob and her brakeman Romy Logsch was thrown from the Bob and the bobsled sliding down what all the medal chances of the team previously lying in 4th place zunichtemachte.

When Bob 's World Cup 2011 in Koenigssee Martini won with her ​​brakeman Romy Logsch first World Cup title in two-man bob. In the season 2011/2012 Cathleen Martini reached its first overall World Cup victory here.

Trivia

One of her biggest blows of fate suffered martini with the death of her brakeman and good friend Yvonne Cernota when this came on the track at Koenigssee in a training accident on 12 March 2004 killed.