Viktória Čerňanská

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

Viktória Čerňanská
Čerňanská in 2021
Personal information
Born (2002-03-29) 29 March 2002
Bratislava, Slovakia
Sport
CountrySlovakia
SportBobsleigh
Medal record
Women's bobsleigh
Representing  Slovakia
IBSF Junior World Championships
2022 InnsbruckMonobob (U23)
2022 InnsbruckTwo-woman (U23)
2021 St. MoritzTwo-woman (U23)
Youth Olympic Games
2020 LausanneMonobob

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]

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