Viktória Čerňanská Explained

Viktória Čerňanská
Birth Date:29 March 2002
Birth Place:Bratislava, Slovakia
Country:Slovakia
Sport:Bobsleigh

Viktória Čerňanská (born 29 March 2002) is a Slovak bobsledder who competed at the 2022 Winter Olympics.

Early life

Čerňanská was involved in sports as a child when her coach pushed her to try bobsleigh. She immediately became interested in this sport and began to devote herself to it. Čerňanská completed demanding trainings year-round outside her homeland.[1]

Career

Čerňanská represented Slovakia at the 2020 Winter Youth Olympics in the monobob event and won a silver medal.[2] [3]

Čerňanská competed at the 2022 IBSF Junior World Championships where she won a gold medal in the U23 monobob, and a silver medal in the two-woman event.[4]

Čerňanská represented Slovakia at the 2022 Winter Olympics in the monobob event.[5] She finished second place at the 2023–24 Bobsleigh World Cup in Whistler, Canada, behind Melissa Lotholz from said country.[6] Čerňanská finished 21st place during the woman's monobob event at the IBSF World Championships 2024 in Winterberg, Germany, her lowest position to date.[7]

Notes and References

  1. News: Klaudia. Fiolová. Na olympiáde bobovala ako prvá Slovenka. Viktória sa doma neuživí, celoročne trénuje v zahraničí. Start It Up. 28 March 2024. sk.
  2. Web site: Women’s monobob a new Olympic discipline is making headway. Winter Olympic Games. 1 February 2020. 12 February 2022.
  3. Web site: Viktória Čerňanská: the rising star of monobob. Winter Olympic Games. 6 January 2020. 12 February 2022.
  4. Web site: Lubov Chernykh and Davis Kaufmanis Junior World Champions in 2-man and 4-man bobsleigh. International Bobsleigh and Skeleton Federation. 23 January 2022. 12 February 2022.
  5. Web site: Viktória Čerňanská. Winter Olympics. 12 February 2022.
  6. News: Bobistka Čerňanská obsadila v druhých pretekoch vo Whistleri 2. miesto. Teraz. 1 December 2023. sk.
  7. News: Do najlepšej dvadsiatky sa neprebojovala. Čerňanskej ušiel postup o jedenásť stotín. Sme. Petit Press. 25 February 2024. sk.