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British athlete’s secured five World Championship medals this season, along with ten athlete quota places for Team GB at the Sochi 2014 Olympic ...

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Laughton: Britain's sliders in good place after season end

Performance director Nigel Laughton insists Britain’s skeleton sliders are exactly where he wants them to be as they take a break before beginni...

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Countdown to Sochi: Winter sports week in review

John Jackson is certainly charting the right trajectory towards next year's Winter Olympics.

Great Britain's number one bobsleigh driver...

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Countdown to Sochi: Winter sports week in review

John Jackson is certainly charting the right trajectory towards next year's Winter Olympics.

Great Britain's number one bobsleigh driver...

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COUNTDOWN TO SOCHI: WINTER SPORTS WEEK IN REVIEW

With just under a year to go until next year's Winter Olympics, it has been another busy week for Team GB athletes with Sochi in their sights.

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Medal Record

Salt Lake City 2002
  • 0 Gold
  • 0 Silver
  • 1 Bronze

Biography

Won Britain’s first medal of the 2002 Salt Lake City Olympic Winter Games.Coomber had to cope with heavy snow but she posted a time of 52.48 secs which left her in the third place after the first run and stayed in third position after the second run behind Americans Tristan Gale and Lea Anne Parsley.Coomber, an officer in the RAF had taken up sliding in 1997 made her breakthrough with victory at the 2000 Goodwill Games . She also won the World Cup series three times, clinching the 2002. title in St Moritz shortly before the Olympics. She found success harder to come by at the World Championships which is run over four heats, unlike Olympic and World Cup races.Plagued by poor starts and not fully recovered from an upper respiratory infection, Coomber had to settle for a silver medal at the 2001 World Championships in Calgary, Canada, only losing to Switzerland's Maya Pederson by .07 seconds.Coomber graduated from Oxford University with a geography degree.