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The two pawns fixed contingent of Swiss bobsleigh female Fabienne Meyer and Caroline Spahni have decided to end their competitive careers, leaving a big void in fact within the Swiss team.
Wednesday 26 March 2014 3 minutes reading time
Meyer thirty-two years from Lucerne, after a long career comprimaria high level last season has literally exploded first obtaining the national title and then to everyone's surprise in Koenigssee also won the European Cup last appointment World. The Swiss thus chose to put an end to racing at its best completing his golden season in eighth place in Sochi.
Caroline Spahni class of 1982 however, he made his debut in the World Cup in the 2011-2012 season by collecting more modest results of the countryman. Spahni has indeed best finish at the World Cup in Koenigssee a sixth place in 2012-2013, a result that was repeated last year in Park City in the second round.
Staying home in Switzerland should be noted also bid farewell to the competitions brakeman Thomas Lamparter. The thirty-five bobbista Bern closes a career marked by many successes. Lamparter has been part of the Olympic quartet with which Martin Annen led to the conquest of the Swiss bobsled Olympic bronze in Turin in 2006, and the crew of the four-man bob World Champion in 2007 under the leadership of Ivo Rueegg. In recent years, Thomas has competed mainly in the two-man bobsleigh alongside former team mate and brakeman Beat Hefti continuing to collect a lot of satisfaction. Europeans in 2010 and 2013 Hefti-Lamparter have risen both times on the first step of the podium at the World Championships in Sankt Moritz while the two were awarded the silver champion.
The Swiss, therefore, is preparing to begin a new four-year Olympic news with deep, we should not forget that the team red-cross is still in search of a new head coach after the divorce with Eric Alard.
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