Canada’s Christine de Bruin wins bronze in monobob race at Beijing Olympics
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Christine De Bruin was third in 4:21.03 in the new women's pilot-only bobsled discipline at Yanqing National Sliding Centre during the Beijing Olympics.
Canada’s Christine de Bruin won bronze in the inaugural Olympic monobob race at the Beijing Games on Monday.
Kaillie Humphries — the Stony Plain, Alta., native’s former Canadian teammate — took gold in her first Olympics competing for the United States with a dominant combined four-run time of four minutes 19.27 seconds.
De Bruin was third in 4:21.03 in the new women’s pilot-only bobsled discipline at Yanqing National Sliding Centre.
Elana Meyers Taylor of the U.S., who entered the final run behind de Bruin in third place, claimed silver in 4:20.81.
Toronto’s Cynthia Appiah was eighth on the 1,615-metre, 16-turn track located about 90 kilometres north of Beijing.
Humphries won gold piloting for Canada in the two-person discipline at both the 2010 and 2014 Olympics, and finished third in 2018, but then had an acrimonious split with the program.
She started racing for the U.S. in 2019 after being granted her release by Bobsleigh Canada Skeleton.
The Calgary product’s third podium-topping performance at a Games followed a number of challenges just getting to China.
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