Maya Pedersen-Bieri

Maya Pedersen - Bieri ( born November 27, 1972 in Spiez ) is a Swiss Skeleton pilot.

It is one of the most successful skeleton athletes of today. So it was 2001 and 2005 World Champion ( both times in Calgary ) and 2006 European champion ( St. Moritz ). In the 1997/98 season they won the World Cup, was three times second (1999/ 2000, 2001 /02 and 2004/ 05) and third twice (1998/ 99 and 2000/ 01).

They celebrated their biggest success in the 2006 Winter Olympics by winning the gold medal on the track in Cesana Torinese. Four years earlier, at the 2002 Winter Olympics, she became fifth.

Maya Pedersen - Bieri with Snorre Pedersen married (who is also her coach is ), has one daughter and lives in Øyer at Lillehammer in Norway. In February 2008, she is expecting her second child and therefore renounces the 2007/ 08 season. At the Olympic Winter Games in Vancouver in 2010 it ranked ninth

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