Yagneshak, Milan

Milan Yagneshak was born on August 29, 1969 in the village of Rabcha , илиilina Region . He began to actively engage in bobsleigh in 1998, at the same time as a pilot he passed the selection to the national team and began to go to major international starts, sometimes showing a pretty good result. Thanks to a series of successful performances, he was awarded the right to defend the country's honor at the 2002 Salt Lake City Winter Olympics, where he subsequently finished thirtieth in the standings of double crews and twenty-fourth in the standings of four-seater ones. He participated in the World Cup races with alternating success, several times got into the twenty strongest, but mostly was thirty. In 2006, I went to the Olympics in Turin and performed here much better than the previous time - twenty-fifth in the doubles and the twentieth in the fours.

For the next two seasons, due to high competition, Yagneshak was forced to spend at less significant secondary competitions like the European Cup, although he was very successful here, for example, in January 2008, he even won a bronze medal with a four at the stage in German Winterberg. In the same season he participated in the races of the World Championship in Altenberg, finished twenty-third with a double crew and twenty-first with a four-seater. Further, the athlete actively performed at the stages of the North America Cup, several times stopped a step away from the prize positions, but could not win a single award here. In December 2009, he nevertheless won a bronze medal at the American Cup stage in Park City, having come third in the standings of fours, while a week later he took bronze in Canadian Calgary.

Remaining the leader of the Slovak bobsledding team, by 2010 Milan Yagneshak scored a sufficient number of rating points and qualified for the Vancouver Olympics - with the two-seater crew, he eventually closed the twenty strongest, and with the four-seater was forced to abandon further participation in the competition after the first attempt. Despite the age of forty, Yagneshak did not leave the sport and continued to ride the stages of the world cup. At the 2011 World Championships in German Königssee, he was fourth with twenty-seventh, and a year later he was disqualified in the same discipline from the third attempt at the American Lake Placid World Championship. In the 2012/13 season, he remains the leader of the Slovakian bobsled team, took the thirtieth place at the world championship in Swiss St. Moritz. In 2014, Yagneshak visited the Sochi Olympics , where he finished twenty-fifth in the men's four-seater crew program.

• Milan Yagneshak (German) (English) - page on the FIBT website

• Milan Yagneshak - Olympic statistics at Sports-Reference.com