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    related to Vonetta Flowers. Vonetta Flowers (née Jeffery; born October 29, 1973) is an American bobsledder. At the 2002 Winter Olympics, Flowers became the...
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  • event, with the first ever women's competition, won by Jill Bakken and Vonetta Flowers of the United States. The competitions comprised four heats. Teams...
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    display with the Art of the Olympians. Along with former Olympian Vonetta Flowers, Fleming was injured and briefly hospitalized after a traffic accident...
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    bobsledder who has competed since 1994. As the driver, she and partner Vonetta Flowers won the gold medal in Bobsleigh at the 2002 Winter Olympics for the...
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    champion yachtsman Ellen van Dijk - world road and track cycling champion Vonetta Flowers - Olympic medal in bobsleigh Myriam Fox-Jerusalmi - slalom canoer,...
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  • Tiger Woods First African-American Winter Olympic gold medal winner: Vonetta Flowers (two-woman bobsleigh). (See also: Shani Davis, 2006) First African...
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    Vonetta Flowers...
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  • player Tom Drake, born in Birmingham, Major League Baseball player Vonetta Flowers, bobsledder, Olympic gold medalist Vince Gibson, football coach Harry...
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    Vonetta Flowers (left) and Jill Bakken power up in the push zone for their 80-mile-per-hour (130 km/h) ride down the Winter Olympic bobsledding track...
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  • actress and producer 1973 – Adam Bacher, South African cricketer 1973 – Vonetta Flowers, American bobsledder, sprinter, and long jumper 1973 – Éric Messier...
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    winning the gold in the first-ever women's Olympic bobsled race 19 February. Her brakeman Vonetta Flowers is also being lifted by teammates on the left....
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  • Flowers, English cricket supporter Vivian Flowers (born c. 1969), American politician Vonetta Flowers (born 1973), American bobsledder Walter Flowers...
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    City, women's bobsleigh made its first appearance. Jill Bakken and Vonetta Flowers of the USA won the two-woman competition, the sole bobsleigh event...
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  • Witty Speed skating Women's 1000 metres February 17  Gold Jill Bakken Vonetta Flowers Bobsleigh Two-woman February 19  Gold Derek Parra Speed skating Men's...
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    also saw the first Winter Olympics gold medalists of African origin: Vonetta Flowers of the United States in the women's bobsleigh event, and Canada's Jarome...
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  • Delaney (born 1986), basketball player in the Israeli National League Vonetta Flowers, Olympic gold medalist Darrell Hackney, NFL player with the Denver...
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    Alabama and competitor in the 2010 Miss America Pageant, was born here. Vonetta Flowers, Olympic Gold Medal gymnast Rebecca Luker, actor and singer, who appeared...
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  • especially track. Black women who have competed in bobsled include: Vonetta Flowers, Elana Meyers Taylor, Lauryn Williams, and Sylvia Hoffman. Racial activism...
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  • and player Vanetta, West Virginia, United States Vonetta Flowers (born 1973), American athlete Vonetta McGee (1945–2010), American actress This disambiguation...
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    Vonetta Flowers and Jill Bakken during their medal ceremony at the Salt Lake Medal Plaza, after winning gold for the United States in the two-woman bobsleigh...
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    the 110 seats in the unicameral National Assembly of Quebec. Born: Vonetta Flowers, American bobsledder and the first African-American woman to win an...
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  • and John Q. Sportswoman of the Year Sportsman of the Year Laila Ali Vonetta Flowers Lisa Leslie Serena Williams Venus Williams Kobe Bryant Allen Iverson...
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  • also: 2001) First African-American Winter Olympic gold medal winner: Vonetta Flowers (two-woman bobsleigh) First African-American woman combat pilot in...
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  • Lisa Leslie Venus Williams 2002 Serena Williams Laila Ali Lisa Leslie Vonetta Flowers Venus Williams 2003 Serena Williams Laila Ali Lisa Leslie Sheryl Swoopes...
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  • Service Cycling Team 2002 — Women's Bobsled Team (Jill Bakken and Vonetta Flowers) 2003 — Women's Gymnastics Team 2004 — U.S. Olympic Softball Team 2005...
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  •  United States Jill Bakken, Vonetta Flowers  Germany Sandra Prokoff, Ulrike Holzner  Germany Susi Erdmann, Nicole Herschmann...
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  • former two-term mayor of Birmingham Eddie Kendricks, Motown singer Vonetta Flowers, gold medalist bobsledder at the 2002 Winter Olympics David Palmer...
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    Trey Flowers, NFL defensive end, New England Patriots (Huntsville) Vonetta Flowers, Olympic gold medalist in bobsled, 2002 Salt Lake City Olympics (Birmingham)...
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    Witty Speed skating Women's 1000 metres February 17  Gold Jill Bakken Vonetta Flowers Bobsleigh Two-woman February 19  Gold Derek Parra Speed skating Men's...
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    Cole Jody Conradt Kathleen Daelemans Sarah Ferguson Carly Fiorina Vonetta Flowers Nely Galán Melinda Gates Nancy Giles Glenda Hatchett Christy Haubegger...
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