Cecilia McIntosh

Cecilia Mcintosh

Personal information
Nickname(s)	C-Bomb
Nationality	Australia
Born	(1979-06-21) 21 June 1979
Height	161 cm (63 in) (2013)
Weight	57 kg (126 lb) (2013)
Sport
Country	Australia
Sport	Track and field, Bobsleigh, AFL, Weightlifting and Baseball
Coached by	Gus Puopolo
Achievements and titles
Olympic finals	2010 Winter Olympics
Medal record Women's athletics Commonwealth Games 2002 Manchester Javelin throw

Cecilia McIntosh (born 21 June 1979) is an Australian bobsledder who has competed since 2009. At the 2010 Winter Olympics in Vancouver, she finished 19th in the two-woman event. McIntosh also competed in track and field, earning a silver in the javelin throw at the 2002 Commonwealth Games in Manchester.

Background

McIntosh was born on 21 June 1979 in Victoria, Australia and is from the eastern Melbourne suburb of Nunawading. She attended Eumemmerring Secondary College in Fountain Gate, Melbourne. She is 1.61 metres (5 ft 3 in) tall and weighs 57 kilograms (126 lb).

Athletics

She competed at the 2002 Commonwealth Games in javelin where she won a silver medal, with a mark of 57.42. She left the sport because of problems with her shoulder.

Australian rules football

Following her retirement from athletics, after having briefly tried bobsleigh, McIntosh took up Australian rules football. She played for the Melbourne University Mugars in the Victorian Women’s Football League. In 2007, her first season in the league, she earned the best first year player award while playing 15 games. Early on, she played in a defensive role before moving up to the forward line where she scored 31 goals. In 2008, she earned the league's best-and-fairest award. In 2009, she was named to the All Australian team.

Weightlifting

McIntosh has competed in weightlifting, where she finished second at the Victorian championships and second at the national championships. In 1997, she won the U20 (under 20) division at the Australian Weightlifting Championships, and finished second in the open division.

Bobsleigh

She first tried bobsledding following her retirement from athletics at the suggest of athletics club teammate and 2006 Winter Olympics bobsledder Shane McKenzie. She was coached by Gus Puopolo. In 2009, she took up the sport again, moved to the United States and trained full-time in preparation for the 2010 Winter Olympics. She is her sled's breakman. When in Australia, she based her training in Ringwood, Melbourne.

At the 2009 America's Cup in Lake Placid, her 2-man sled finished second. At the Calgary hosted 2009 Americas Cup, she finished fourth in the 2-man bobsleigh. Competing at the 2009 America's Cup in Park City, Utah, she had two second place finishes and a third place finish. At the 2010 European Cup in Cesana, Italy, her 2-man sled finished sixth. McIntosh and Astrid Loch-Wilkinson had to appeal to the Court of Arbitration for Sport in order to gain the right to compete at the 2010 Winter Olympics because the International Bobsleigh and Skeleton Federation had not allocated a spot for Oceania during the qualification process.

Following the first two heats of the women's two person bobsleigh event, her sled was in nineteenth place out of twenty-one sleds. The first run had a time of 54.85 seconds and the second run had a time of 54.66 seconds. Despite finishing 21st after their third run, their sled finished nineteenth overall at the conclusion of their fourth and final run, after one team failed to finish and another was disqualified.