Berit Wiacker

Berit Wiacker (born June 15, 1982 in Duisburg ) is a bobsledder and former athlete .

Career

Berit Wiacker began her athletic career as a track and field athlete. In 2000 she became German junior champion in the 100 meter hurdles with Nadine Hentschke in Dresden and was barely able to qualify for the European junior championship. At that time she started for SG DJK Ingolstadt and was also Bavarian champion several times. After changing coach, however, she stagnated in her performances.

That is why it was not inconvenient for Wiacker when a bobsleigh pilot, Barbara Pütz, who trained in the Ingolstadt athletics group, asked her in 2002 whether she would like to come to bobsleigh as a pusher. At first she planned to do bobsleigh and athletics in parallel, but this turned out to be not feasible. So she switched completely to bobsleigh. In the World Cup, she started with the pilot Cathleen Martini . At her first World Cup start in Lake Placid in the 2003/04 season , she immediately achieved third place with Martini. Shortly afterwards, Wiacker switched to Sandra Kiriasis ' bobsleigh , with whom she celebrated her first World Cup victory shortly afterwards in Lillehammer . In Sandra Kiriasis' team, she competes with Anja Schneiderheinze-Stöckel for the position of pusher. In 2005 and 2006 Wiacker became German champion. She has won World Cup races five times.

In 2006 Wiacker was a pusher when she won the European Championship in St. Moritz . But at the Olympic Games in Turin , where Kiriasis won gold, she had to leave the place to the pusher Schneiderheinze. In the team competition for bobsleigh and skeleton riders, which was held for the first time , she became world champion with Kiriasis, Frank Kleber , Monique Riekewald , Karl Angerer and Marc Kühne in 2007 in St. Moritz.

Berit Wiacker is police chief and starts initially for the BSC Winterberg , currently for the RSG Hochsauerland .

successes

World Cup victories

Two-man bobsleigh women

No.	date	place	train
1.	Jan. 23, 2004	Lillehammer	Hunderfossen 1 bobsleigh and racing sled run
2.	Dec 10, 2004	Innsbruck-Igls	Artificial ice rink bobsleigh Igls 1
3.	Dec 17, 2004	Cortina d'Ampezzo	Cortina d'Ampezzo bobsleigh run 1
4th	Jan. 21, 2005	Cesana	Cesana Pariol 1
5.	0Dec 9, 2005	Innsbruck-Igls	Artificial ice rink bobsleigh Igls 1
6th	Feb 23, 2007	Koenigssee	Combined artificial ice rink at Königssee 1
7th	0Feb 8, 2008	Winterberg	Winterberg bobsleigh run 1
8th.	0Dec 6, 2008	Altenberg	Altenberg racing sled and bobsleigh run 1
9.	Jan 15, 2009	St. Moritz	Olympia Bobrun St. Moritz – Celerina 1
10.	Jan. 16, 2009	St. Moritz	Olympia Bobrun St. Moritz – Celerina 1
11.	Nov 17, 2010	Lake Placid	Olympic bobsleigh run Lake Placid 1
12.	Jan. 21, 2011	Winterberg	Winterberg bobsleigh run 1
13.	Jan. 29, 2011	St. Moritz	Olympia Bobrun St. Moritz – Celerina 1

¹Pilot Sandra Kiriasis

Web links

Berit Wiacker in the database of the International Bobsleigh & Skeleton Association