Bree Walker's love affair with the Igls track in Austria continues, with the Australian Olympian winning silver in the World Cup monobob event.
abc.net.au/news/monobob-bree-walker-silver-medal-world-cup/101965992Australian Olympian Bree Walker has won a silver medal at the IBSF World Cup monobob event in Innsbruck, Austria.The Australian also won bronze at a World Cup event in Germany last monthIt is Walker's second podium finish of the World Cup season.
Walker has switched coaches to train under under five-time Olympian Pierre Lueders — who is Canada's most decorated bobsledder — and she continues to be one of pacesetters in the sport. Walker recorded the third-fastest time in the opening run in 54.71 seconds and improved in the second and final run to clock 54.68, which was the second-fastest of the round.
"I couldn't have asked for a better way to round out my World Cup season with the second place here in Igls," Walker said.
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