Vonetta Flowers

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Vonetta Flowers
Medal record


Bobsleigh
Competitor for the United States
Olympic Games
Gold	2002 Salt Lake City	Two-woman
World Championships
Bronze	2004 Königssee	Two-woman

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Vonetta Flowers (born Vonetta Jeffery on October 29, 1973 in Birmingham, Alabama) is an American bobsledder and athlete.

Career

Flowers was a star sprinter and long jumper at the University of Alabama at Birmingham, and originally aspired to make the U.S. Summer Olympic Team. After several failed attempts, Flowers turned to bobsledding, and found success as a brakewoman almost immediately. At the 2002 Winter Olympics, she, along with driver Jill Bakken, won the gold medal in the two-woman event, becoming the first black person to win a gold medal in the Winter Olympics. After the Salt Lake City Games, Flowers gave birth to twins and took some time off from the sport. In 2003, she returned to competition with new driver Jean Prahm. Flowers and Prahm competed in the 2006 Winter Olympics in Turin, finishing sixth.

Flowers also won the two-woman event at the 2004 FIBT World Championships in Königssee. She retired from competition after the 2006 Winter Olympics.

In December 2010, she was elected to the Alabama Sports Hall of Fame. She was to be inducted as a member of the Class of 2011 in May.

References

Vonetta Flowers and Jill Bakken begin the race for the gold at the 2002 Winter Olympics

v t e Olympic champions in two-woman bobsleigh

2002: United States (Jill Bakken & Vonetta Flowers) 2006: Germany (Sandra Kiriasis & Anja Schneiderheinze) 2010: Canada (Kaillie Humphries & Heather Moyse)

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Name	Flowers, Vonetta
Alternative names
Short description	Bobsledder
Date of birth	October 29, 1973
Place of birth
Date of death
Place of death

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