Astrid Rajenovic ( born Astrid Rađenović , née Lok-Wilkinson , September 14, 1982 , Sydney ) is an Australian bobsleighist , helmsman, has been playing for the Australian team since 2003. Participant of three winter Olympic games, repeated winner and prize winner of national championships, various stages of the America and Europe Cups.
 Astrid Radzhenovich | |
|---|---|
| Citizenship |  Australia |
| Date of Birth | September 14, 1982 (36 years) |
| Place of Birth | Sydney |
| Growth | 168 cm |
| Weight | 67 kg |
| Career | |
| Position | pilot |
| Trainer | Gatis Guts |
| In the national team | since 2003 |
| Status | is competing |
| Last updated: January 19, 2013 | |
Biography
Astrid Lok-Wilkinson was born on September 14, 1982 in Sydney . From a young age she was fond of sports, while still at school she was engaged in athletics, mainly in running disciplines. After graduating from school, she entered the University of Sydney , where she studied as a veterinarian, and at the same time she was on the university athletics team. She participated in the national championship in athletics and in the 400 m hurdles even reached the final, but she could not achieve any significant results in the international arena for a long time. In 2003, on the advice of Hannah Campbell-Pegg sleigh girls, she decided to try out a bobsleigh, she was selected as a pilot for the national team and began to take part in the world's largest competitions, and often showed quite a good time.
In December 2004, Locke-Wilkinson made her debut in the World Cup, and finished nineteenth on the Austrian Igls circuit. Two months later, for the first time participated in the races of the adult world championship, at the competition in the Canadian Calgary with her crew of two came to the finish line twenty-third. The whole next season, in accordance with the overall standings of the World Cup, was invariably in the top twenty strongest bobsleddies in the world. Thanks to a series of successful performances, she won the right to defend the honor of the country at the 2006 Winter Olympics in Turin , where she was subsequently the fourteenth. After the Olympics, her accelerating partner, Kylie Reed, left the bobsled, and therefore, Lock-Wilkinson also did not perform for several years.
She returned to the elite of world bobsled for her in 2009, when she won several medals at the North American Cup and scored enough ranking points to participate in the Olympic Games in Vancouver . Along with overclocking Cecilia, Mackintosh took nineteenth place here. Arriving from these competitions, she gathered a new bobsled team and continued to perform at the highest level; moreover, at the end of 2010 she married Serbian bobsleighist Vuk Radzhenovic . At the World Championships in German Königssee was the fourteenth in twos and in mixed competitions in bobsleigh and skeleton, while at the World Cup stages regularly appeared in the top ten. In 2012, at the world championship in the American Lake Placid in the standings, women's double crews located on the fifteenth line.
In 2014, Radzhenovic visited the Olympic Games in Sochi , where she finished fourteenth in the women's double crew program.
Links
- Astrid Radzhenovich (him.) (English) - page on the site FIBT
- Astrid Radzhenovic - Olympic statistics on Sports-Reference.com (English)