First bobsleigh gold of Winter Youth Olympic Games Gangwon 2024 won by Denmark’s Maja Voigt in Women’s Monobob

22 January 2024 - Denmark’s Maja Voigt has won monobob gold at the Winter Youth Olympic Games (YOG), her country’s first gold of the at Gangwon 2024.

16-year-old Voigt won in a combined time of 1:53.31, which was 0.86 quicker than 17-year-old Agnese Campeol, who took a historic silver for Thailand. Mihaela Alexia Anton of Romania finished in bronze medal position making it a great day for young bobsleighers from an Olympic legacy project for developing nations.

17-year-old Campeol has thrived from a Legacy Foundation programme of the Winter Olympic Games Pyeongchang 2018. The PyeongChang Legacy Foundation’s (PCLF) New Horizons Camp is aimed at developing athletes from countries with no existing infrastructure.

Tunisian duo Beya Mokrani (10th place) and Sophie Ghorbal (12th) also made history as the first Tunisian athletes to compete at any Winter Olympic Games. The men’s monobob, including Tunisian Jonathan Lourimi, takes place on Tuesday (January 23).

Gangwon 2024 runs until 1 February, with more than 1,800 athletes from 78 NOCs taking part. The Winter Youth Olympic Games is filmed for live television and digital streaming on the Olympic Channel via Olympics.com and the Olympics app, with full session replays and highlights also available.