Kaillie Humphries
Kaillie Humphries (* as Kaillie Simundson on September 4, 1985 in Calgary, Alberta ) is a Canadian Bobsportlerin.
Kaillie Humphries lives in her hometown of Calgary and began 2002 with the Bobs. She trains at Canada Olympic Park, her coach Tuffy Latour is. In 2003 she graduated from the National Sport School. First she was three years brakeman before they began as a pilot. In bobsled World Cup Humphries made his debut in 2004 in a race in Winterberg as brakeman of Helen Upperton. In Lake Placid Both reached as a tithe placed in 2005 her first top ten result. In December of the year in fourth place when they missed in Cortina d'Ampezzo, a first podium result. From the following season started as a pilot in the Canadian bobsled European Cup. Direct her first race in December 2006 in Igls Humphries could win with the brakeman Kaylyn Best. A second victory followed in January 2007 in Winterberg, brakeman was Nadine Walker. A month later, she denied at the same place her first World Cup race as a pilot and came on the 12th Place. In November 2007 it reached as fourth-placed Shelly -Ann Brown at their home track in Calgary for the first time a top ten result. In Lake Placid Humphries went with Brown for the first time on the podium. First major event was the Bob World Cup 2008 in Altenberg. In the two-man bob Humphries was with Brown Fifth, in the team competition, she won the Canadian team behind the German team the silver medal. When Bob World Cup in 2009 in Lake Placid, she was again fifth. In December 2009, she won with Heather Moyse in Altenberg for the first time a World Cup race.
Your biggest success Humphries with her brakeman Moyse at the 2010 Winter Olympics in Vancouver native. She won ahead of her teammate Helen Upperton with Shelley Brown and Erin Pac / Elana Meyers the gold medal. Before the Winter Games she had been able to complete significantly more training runs than the competitors on the difficult path than resident athlete. In Bob 's World Cup 2011 in Koenigssee, the duo reached the bronze medal.
Humphries is married to the Anglo- Canadian bobsledder Dan Humphries.