Jill Bakken

Jill Bakken ( born January 25, 1977 in Portland ) is a former American Bobsportlerin.

Jill Bakken started early with competitive sports. Initially it operated alpine skiing and here was one of the best athletes in the Pacific Northwest. Your goal in this sport to reach international level and to participate in the Olympic Winter Games, they did not reach. Therefore, she moved in 1994 to the Bobs, who was not yet olympic at this time. She was at the beginning of 16 years and thus the youngest ever Bobpilotin. She trained in Calgary, as the women's bobsled program of the United States was discontinued in 1984.

Bakken took since the 1994/95 season, part of the newly created World Cup bobsleigh and finished second in her first race in eighth position immediately. Your Anschieberinnen at the time were Shauna Rohbock and Vonetta Flowers. Your best season they went 1999/2000 as second in the overall World Cup standings. However, the greatest success was winning the gold medal with her brakeman Vonetta Flowers at the 2002 Winter Olympics in Salt Lake City, where a Bobwettbewerb for women was held for the first time. After the victory they had to suspend two years because of injuries and not reached after all their previous performance. But it took about at the Bob World Championships 2005 in Calgary with her brakeman Amanda Moreley sixth place. More Anschieberinnen after ihrerm comeback were Erin Pac and Bathany Hart. For the 2006 Winter Olympics in Turin Bakken against Shauna Rohbock and Jean barge could not prevail, and finished at the end of the season their careers.