Kim Kalicki (born 27 June 1997) is a German
bobsledder
Bobsleigh or bobsled is a winter sport in which teams of 2 to 4 athletes make timed speed runs down narrow, twisting, banked, iced tracks in a gravity-powered sleigh. International bobsleigh competitions are governed by the International Bobsle ...
who competes for TuS Eintracht Wiesbaden 1846.
She also representing the Germany national team since 2015 and won the silver medal in the two-woman bobsleigh event at the
Bobsleigh World Championships in
2020
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and
2021
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with
Kira Lipperheide and
Ann-Christin Strack, respectively.
Career
Former track and field athlete Kim Kalicki switched into bobsleigh at the age of 17. She made her debut in the European Bobsleigh Cup on the track in Winterberg in November, 2015 and took second place behind Sabrina Duljevic with her brakewoman Ann-Christin Strack. At the end of the 2015/16 season, she finished sixth overall in the European Bobsleigh Cup with 438 points. She qualified that season for the 2016 Junior Bobsleigh World Championships, which were held in Winterberg. She competed again together with Ann-Christin Strack and secured the silver medal behind the German team, consisting of
Stephanie Schneider and
Lisa Buckwitz.
In 2016/17 season, Kim Kalicki competed only one race in the European Cup competition in Winterberg on January 26, 2017. In this competition she took fifth place together with her brakewoman Lisa Sophie Gericke. They also competed at the 2017 Junior World Championships on the track in Winterberg, where she took third place behind British Mica Mcneill and compatriot Anna Köhler's team.
In 2017/18 season, Kim Kalicki and her brakewoman Lisa Sophie Gericke took consecutive third places in the European Cup competitions in Lillehammer on November 11 and 12, 2017. On January 12, 2018, with her brakewoman Sarah Noll, she was again able to achieve a podium finish in the European Cup on the course in Winterberg, behind
Christin Senkel's team. At the end of the season she finished sixth in the overall standings of the European Cup with 410 points. This season she also competed at the Junior Bobsleigh World Championships and took third place with her brakewoman
Lena Zelichowski behind the Romanian bobsled by
Andreea Grecu and the German bobsled by
Laura Nolte
Laura Nolte (born 23 November 1998) is a German Bobsleigh, bobsleigh pilot, who began competing for the national team in 2015 and won the gold medal in the Bobsleigh at the 2022 Winter Olympics – Two-woman, two-woman bobsleigh event at the 202 ...
.
In 2018/19 season, she completed her first race of the season on January 10, 2019, in Innsbruck and, won the bobsleigh European Cup for the first time with her brakewoman Kira Lipperheide. The day after, they also won the second competition on the Olympic ice track in Igls. They also competed together at the 2019 World Junior Championships, finishing third place in the normal competition behind Austrian
Katrin Beierl and Romanian Andreea Grecu's bobsleigh.
Before the 2019/20 season, Kim Kalicki took part in the German championship with Viktoria Dönicke in Oberhof and they secured second place behind Laura Nolte'steam.
She made her debut world cup race on December 7, 2019, in Lake Placid with her brakewoman
Vanessa Mark
Vanessa Pokuaah Mark (born 2 March 1996) is a German bobsledder.
Career
Mark made her Bobsleigh World Cup debut during the 2019–20 Bobsleigh World Cup. On 7 December 2019, she finished in third place in the two-woman event along with Kim Kali ...
and they were able to go straight to the podium finish behind American
Kaillie Humphries
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and the bobsleigh of the German's
Stephanie Schneider.
Career results
All results are sourced from the
International Bobsleigh and Skeleton Federation (IBSF).
World Cup results
Two-woman
Monobob
References
External links
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Kim Kalicki at the
''Bob und Schlittenverband Deutschland''
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1997 births
Living people
German female bobsledders
Olympic bobsledders for Germany
Bobsledders at the 2022 Winter Olympics
Sportspeople from Wiesbaden
21st-century German sportswomen