Helen Upperton

Helen Upperton ( born October 31, 1979 in Ahmadi, Kuwait ) is a Canadian Bobpilotin.

Helen Upperton lives in Calgary and is coached by Dennis Marineau. Since 2000, she drives Bob, since 2003 as a member of the Canadian national squad. Prior to her career in bobsleigh athlete was Upperton ( triple jump ). Belonged to their former and current Anschieberinnen and include Kallie Simundson, Nadine Walker, Jill Sallus, Heather Moyse, Jaime Cruickshank and Jennifer Ciochetti. First, they usually took back rankings for the first time in the top ten she went in January 2005 in Cesana Pariol. A first noteworthy placing it reached already at the Bob World Cup in 2004, where she was eighth. Since the season 2005/ 06, the Canadian is a world leader. In all seven World Cup races she came in the top ten, in St. Moritz, she won for the first time and came three more times on the podium. Score as she finished second behind Kiriasis. At the season highlight the 2006 Winter Olympics in Turin they missed out on fourth place with brakeman Heather Moyse the bronze medal by only five hundredths of a second. Also in the season 2006/ 07 she was successful, finished in all World Cup races ranks among the top four in the standings and was fourth. Your worst season in sixth position it reached during the Bob World Championships 2007 in St. Moritz. At the start of the following season they won the first race of the season on their home track in Calgary for the second time a World Cup race.

Upperton is in a relationship with the Monaco bobsleigh pilot Patrice Servelle.