\u00c0 Turin\u00a02016 \u00e0 Turin, Helen Upperton a rat\u00e9 la m\u00e9daille de bronze par seulement 5 centi\u00e8mes de seconde. Quatre ans plus tard, elle a atteint la seconde marche du podium de Vancouver\u00a02010 en compagnie de la freineuse Shelley-Ann Brown.<\/p>\n
Helen est n\u00e9e au Kowe\u00eft, o\u00f9 ses parents ont fait carri\u00e8re dans l\u2019industrie du p\u00e9trole, puis elle a immigr\u00e9 au Canada avec sa famille \u00e0 l\u2019\u00e2ge de 3\u00a0ans. Elle a pratiqu\u00e9 le triple saut \u00e0 l\u2019universit\u00e9 du Texas, puis s\u2019est tourn\u00e9e vers le bobsleigh apr\u00e8s une fracture au pied droit. Elle a accompli deux \u00ab\u00a0premi\u00e8res\u00a0\u00bb en bobsleigh f\u00e9minin en remportant la premi\u00e8re m\u00e9daille canadienne \u00e0 la Coupe du monde en novembre 2005, suivie de la premi\u00e8re m\u00e9daille d\u2019or en bobsleigh f\u00e9minin \u00e0 la Coupe du monde en janvier 2006.<\/p>\n
En plus d\u2019avoir rat\u00e9 le podium de peu \u00e0 Turin\u00a02006, Helen s\u2019est class\u00e9e 4e<\/sup>\u00a0aux Championnats du monde de 2008 et 2009. Elle a annonc\u00e9 sa retraite en septembre 2012, tout comme Shelley-Ann Brown, apr\u00e8s s\u2019\u00eatre impos\u00e9e, pendant pr\u00e8s d\u2019une d\u00e9cennie, comme l\u2019une des meilleures pilotes canadiennes.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" \u00c0 Turin\u00a02016 \u00e0 Turin, Helen Upperton a rat\u00e9 la m\u00e9daille de bronze par seulement 5 centi\u00e8mes de seconde. Quatre ans…<\/p>\n","protected":false},"featured_media":83379,"template":"","tags":[49208064],"hof-categories":[],"year-inducted":[],"gender":[23319],"season":[415983969],"sport":[41495],"game":[8561476,7906021],"team":[415983701,415983702],"event":[181822138],"province":[],"class_list":["post-4335","athletes","type-athletes","status-publish","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","tag-bobsleigh-2","gender-feminin","season-hiver","sport-bobsleigh","game-2006-turin","game-2010-vancouver","team-turin-2006-bobsleigh","team-vancouver-2010-bobsleigh","event-bob-a-deux-femmes"],"acf":[],"featured_image_url":"https:\/\/develop.olympic.ca\/olympique\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2011\/09\/upperton_brown_2010_e_1340px.jpg?quality=100","category_names":[],"tag_names":["bobsleigh"],"sport_names":[186],"game_names":["Turin 2006","Vancouver 2010"],"season_names":["Hiver"],"team_names":["Turin 2006 Bobsleigh","Vancouver 2010 - Bobsleigh"],"province_names":[],"social_facebook":"http:\/\/www.facebook.com\/pages\/Helen-Upperton-Olympic-Silver-Medallist\/110198512337585","social_twitter":"helenupperton","social_linkedin":"","social_gplus":"","social_instagram":"helsupp","social_website":"helenupperton.com","total_medal_count_gold":"","total_medal_count_silver":"","total_medal_count_bronze":"","athlete_headshot":"https:\/\/develop.olympic.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2011\/09\/helen_upperton_profile_1340px.jpg?quality=75","athlete_height":"176.0","athlete_weight":"73.0","athlete_hometown":"","athlete_birthplace":"Ahmadi, Kuwait","coc_gracenote_id":"","athlete_dob":"October 31, 1979","athlete_age":46,"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/develop.olympic.ca\/olympique\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/athletes\/4335","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/develop.olympic.ca\/olympique\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/athletes"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/develop.olympic.ca\/olympique\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/athletes"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/develop.olympic.ca\/olympique\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/athletes\/4335\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":131436,"href":"https:\/\/develop.olympic.ca\/olympique\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/athletes\/4335\/revisions\/131436"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/develop.olympic.ca\/olympique\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/83379"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/develop.olympic.ca\/olympique\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4335"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/develop.olympic.ca\/olympique\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4335"},{"taxonomy":"hof-categories","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/develop.olympic.ca\/olympique\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/hof-categories?post=4335"},{"taxonomy":"year-inducted","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/develop.olympic.ca\/olympique\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/year-inducted?post=4335"},{"taxonomy":"gender","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/develop.olympic.ca\/olympique\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/gender?post=4335"},{"taxonomy":"season","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/develop.olympic.ca\/olympique\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/season?post=4335"},{"taxonomy":"sport","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/develop.olympic.ca\/olympique\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/sport?post=4335"},{"taxonomy":"game","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/develop.olympic.ca\/olympique\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/game?post=4335"},{"taxonomy":"team","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/develop.olympic.ca\/olympique\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/team?post=4335"},{"taxonomy":"event","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/develop.olympic.ca\/olympique\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/event?post=4335"},{"taxonomy":"province","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/develop.olympic.ca\/olympique\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/province?post=4335"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}