Yvonne Cernota

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Yvonne Cernota
Medal record

Women's Bobsleigh
Competitor for Germany
World Championships
Bronze	2003 Winterberg	Two-woman

Yvonne Cernota (19 September 1979 – 12 March 2004) was a German bobsledder who competed from 2000 to 2004 at the position of the brakeswomen. She won a bronze medal in the two-woman event at the 2003 FIBT World Championships in Winterberg.

Cernota was killed in a training accident at the bobsleigh, luge, and skeleton track in Königssee, Germany when she has changed on the position of the pilot. Less than two weeks before, she had finished fourth with fellow German bobsledder Cathleen Martini at the World Championships on the same track. It was the first bobsleigh fatality since 1990 and the 42nd overall since being included in the Winter Olympic program in 1924.

At the time of her death, Cernota was a student majoring in biochemistry.

References

Persondata
Name	Cernota, Yvonne
Alternative names
Short description	Bobsledder
Date of birth	19 September 1979
Place of birth
Date of death	12 March 2004
Place of death

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