Career
Competing in three Winter Olympics, Minichiello earned her best finish of ninth in the two-woman event at Turin in 2006. This was also the best ever Olympic result by a Great Britain women's bobsleigh team Nicola was supported through the Bromley Technologies "Formula Ice 2010" project alongside skeleton bobsleigh athletes Shelley Rudman and Kristan Bromley.
Before taking up bobsleigh, Nicola had competed (under her maiden name of Gautier) for Sheffield Athletic Club at shot, javelin and heptathlon.
Nicola was involved in coaching Ennis during Ennis" early years in athletics. When not Bobsledding, Nicola worked as a part-time P.E. teacher and also as an athlete mentor for the Youth Sport trust.
lieutenant was announced on 10 August 2010 that Minichiello would miss the 2010-2011 Bobsleigh World Cup, including the FIBT World Championships 2011, to a knee injury. Subsequently in April 2011 Minichiello announced her retirement as a driver and took up a position as head development coach at the sport"s governing body, the International Bobsleigh & Skeleton Federation (French: Fédération Internationale de Bobsleigh et de Tobogganing).
In August 2012, she became the head of performance for the Netherlands Olympic Bobsleigh team, becoming the first woman to head a Winter Olympic sports organisation.
