More Sport Harry Willemsen has during the world cup race tweemansbob in the German Winterberg with a twelfth and also the last place to say goodbye to the bobsleesport.
For the occasion, she gets once again together with remster Hanna Mariën in the bob, with whom she few years ago her biggest successes celebrated. The two, however, could the lack of training not conceal, and was in the two runs in Winterberg 2.70 slower than the German duo of Stephanie Schneider and Ann-Christin Strack (1:53.57), who with the victory to get started. The Belgian bobsleigh with An Vannieuwenhuyse and Sara Aerts finished in eighth place, at 1.32 of the winners.
The Belgian Bullets are now embarked on a new chapter. Earlier in the year kept remster Sophie Vercruyssen, who Vannieuwenhuyse twelfth was in the Winter of this year, the for viewed. He also made Mariën at the top of the Belgian Bob and Skeletonfederatie place for Geert Vanvaerenbergh, the man who, in 2007, the initiative for the Belgian Bullets took.
Elf Willemsen in 2007 was at the forefront of the Bullets. Three years later, the Turnhoutse with remster Eva Willemarck part in the Olympic Winter games in Canadian Vancouver, where the duo are on the fourteenth place finisher. In 2014 was Willemsen with Hanna Mariën finished on the sixth place in the Russian Sochi. At the beginning of this year represented Willemsen Team Belgium a third and final time at the Olympics. In the South Korean Pyeongchang, she was with Sara Aerts eleventh.
Willemsen was several times on the podium of a world cup, but never on the highest step. At the european CHAMPIONSHIPS of 2016 in St. Moritz she won the silver medal with Sophie Vercruyssen. In a world cup is the seventh place (in 2015 Vercruyssen in her beloved Winterberg) her best result.
After her farewell of the Belgian Bullets remains Willemsen active in the bobsleesport. She’s going as a trainer of young talents to work for the international federation.