Kristen Bujnowski (born March 14, 1992) is a Canadian

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 ...

. She was an alternate at the

2018 Winter Olympics The 2018 Winter Olympics (), officially the XXIII Olympic Winter Games (; ) and also known as PyeongChang 2018 (), were an international winter multi-sport event held between 9 and 25 February 2018 in Pyeongchang County, South Ko ...

in Two Women Bobsleigh. Kristen was a brakeman at the

IBSF World Championships 2019 The 2019 IBSF World Championships were held in Whistler, Canada from February 25 to March 10, 2019. This would be the last World Championships with the mixed-sleds mixed team eventconsisting of one run each of men's skeleton, women's skeleton, ...

with

Christine de Bruin Christine de Bruin (née Bushie, born 3 March 1989) is a Canadian bobsledder. She competed in the two-woman event at the 2018 Winter Olympics with Melissa Lotholz. She won bronze in the women's event and a silver medal in the team relay at the ...

, winning a Bronze medal. She was a brakeman at the

IBSF World Championships 2020 The 2020 IBSF World Championships (bobsleigh and skeleton), IBSF World Championships were held in Altenberg, Saxony, Altenberg, Germany from 21 February to 1 March 2020. This World Championships saw the introduction of a skeleton (sport), skele ...

with Christine de Bruin, winning a Bronze Medal. Kristen Bujnowski and Christine de Bruin also won a Bronze IBSF World Cup Crystal Globe in 2020. In September 2021, she broke the Canadian and Calgary Ice House women's push record, pushing 5.36s. The Canadian record had been previously shared with Shelly-Ann Brown (2009), Cynthia Appiah (2019) and Kristen Bujnowski (2020) at 5.41s. The Calgary Ice House record was previously held by

Aja Evans Aja L. Evans (born May 12, 1988) is an American Olympic medalist bobsledder (two-woman) who competes as a brakeman. At her Chicago public high school she was an All-American track & field City Champion in sprints and shot put. As a college athle ...

(2017) at 5.39s. In January 2022, Bujnowski was named to Canada's 2022 Olympic team, finishing 5th in the two-woman event.

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