Nicola Minichiello
Nicola Minichiello, Nicola Minichiello - Gautier, often Nicole Minichiello (* as Nicola Gautier on 21 March 1978 in Sheffield ) is a British Bobpilotin whose greatest achievement is winning the 2009 World Cup.
Nicola Minichiello is a teacher, lives in Renishaw and studied by the way at Sheffield Hallam University Physical Education. The team Minichiello 2008/ 09, the brakeman inner Jackie Gunn include (formerly Jackie Davies) and Gillian Cooke. Head coach of the team is Gomer Lloyd, Eistrainer Peter Gunn.
Minichiello began in December 2001 with the Bobsleigh and was initially brakeman. Three months later, she took the pilot Cheryl Done in part with the first bobsleigh competitions of women in the 2002 Winter Olympics in Salt Lake City and was 12th in the season 2002/ 03 she began even as a pilot. With her colleague, Jackie Davies, she joined as a pilot and brakeman in the season from. In the 2003 /04 season Minichiello started as GB and I was 16, the overall World Cup and became a British champion. With the brakeman Liz Pidgeon she was 14 at the Bob World Cup 2004. During the season 2004/ 05 Minichiello went back with Davies. In the summer they won in Leipzig the start-up world championship. In the overall World Cup were both Eighth, the first great success of the career, however, was winning the silver medal at the Bob World Championships 2005 in Calgary behind the Bob of Kiriasis. It was the best international British Bobsleigh - result in 40 years. The following year, Minichiello / Davies were Seventh overall World Cup standings and occupied at the 2006 Winter Olympics in Cesana Pariol ninth place. In the season 2006/ 07 there were some changes in the British team, Minichiello took only two World Cup races in part, but finished it on digit places and finished 17th of the overall World Cup. In the Bob World Championships 2007 in St. Moritz, it ranked 16th
In the 2007 /08 season Minichiello could build on the earlier successes again, top ten results were back to normal. In the end, they again reached the seventh place in the overall World Cup. When Bob World Cup 2008 in Altenberg Briton drove in the two- to sixth place and missed the team competition in fourth place when just a medal. Most successful season was the following. In Winterberg she finished behind Shauna Rohbock second place in the World Cup and so on the podium for the first time in a World Cup race. Two third places followed in St. Moritz. In the overall World Cup, the British reached the bronze medal. However, best result was the victory at the Bob World Championships 2009 in Lake Placid, where she won with her brakeman Gunn before Rohbock and Cathleen Martini. Also when Bob Championship 2009 in St. Moritz, she won a medal with bronze.
Prior to Bobsportkarriere Minichiello was heptathlete. In 2000, she was third Strongest heptathlete in the British Isles after the Olympic gold medalist Denise Lewis and Julie Hollman. In the 2001 Universiade in Beijing she won the 16th Place.