First bobsleigh gold of Winter Youth Olympic Games Gangwon 2024 won by Denmark’s Maja Voigt in Women’s Monobob
- Title First bobsleigh gold of Winter Youth Olympic Games Gangwon 2024 won by Denmark’s Maja Voigt in Women’s Monobob
- Publication Date 22nd January 2024
- Languages DEN
- Location Alpensia Sliding Centre, Pyeongchang, Gangwon Province, Republic of Korea
- Press Release
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Description
Denmark’s Maja Voigt has won monobob gold at the Winter Youth Olympic Games (YOG), her country’s first gold of the at Gangwon 2024. 16-year-old Voigt won in a combined time of 1:53.31, which was 0.86 quicker than 17-year-old Agnese Campeol, who took a historic silver for Thailand. Mihaela Alexia Anton of Romania finished in bronze medal position making it a great day for young bobsleighers from an Olympic legacy project for developing nations. 17-year-old Campeol has thrived from a Legacy Foundation programme of the Winter Olympic Games Pyeongchang 2018. The PyeongChang Legacy Foundation’s (PCLF) New Horizons Camp is aimed at developing athletes from countries with no existing infrastructure.
- Games Edition Gangwon 2024 (YOG)
- Sport Bobsleigh
- Discipline
- Event
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