Anke Woehrer

Anke Karstens
nation	Germany
birthday	October 13, 1985
place of birth	Berchtesgaden ,  FR Germany
size	175 cm
Weight	63 kg
job	Chief of Police
Career
discipline	Parallel giant slalom , parallel slalom
society	SC Prien am Chiemsee
status	resigned
End of career	23 March 2019
Medal table
Olympic games 0 × 1 × 0 × National championships 4 × 3 × 1 ×
winter Olympics silver 2014 Sochi Parallel slalom German snowboard championship silver 2004 Bischofswiesen Parallel giant slalom silver 2006 Feldberg Parallel giant slalom gold 2007 Kaunertal Parallel slalom silver 2007 Kaunertal Parallel giant slalom bronze 2009 Götschen Parallel giant slalom gold 2011 Götschen Parallel giant slalom gold 2013 Götschen Parallel giant slalom gold 2013 Götschen Parallel slalom
Placements
World cup
Debut in the World Cup February 6, 2005  World Cup victories 2  Overall World Cup 16. ( 2007/08 )  Parallel World Cup 6. ( 2012/13 )  PGS World Cup 7th (2012/13)  PSL World Cup 15th (2012/13)
Podium placements 1. 2. 3.  Parallel 2 1 3

Anke Wöhrer (née Karstens) (born October 13, 1985 in Berchtesgaden , Bavaria ) is a former German snowboard athlete. She started for SC Prien am Chiemsee.

In 2007 Anke Karstens became German champion in parallel slalom ( PSL) and runner-up in parallel giant slalom (PGS). With Isabella Laböck , Amelie Kober and Selina Jörg she will be part of the German World Cup team in winter 2007/08 .

Karstens started snowboarding in 1997, encouraged by her brother. In 2001 she took part in a German championship for the first time, was in Bischofswiesen (Götschen) 26th in the PSL and 33rd in the PGS. In the following year she started in FIS races for the first time . In 2003 she took part in the Junior World Championship for the first time and a few weeks later won her first junior race in Pec pod Sněžkou . In 2004, she participated in the Junior World Championships (in Klinovec ) for the second time , where she won fifth place in the PSL. At the German Championships, she finished second in the PGS that year, a success that she was able to repeat in 2006. In the 2006/07 season she occupied top racing courses several times and was seventh overall in the European Cup, before she became German PSL champion on April 1, 2007 in Kaunertal ahead of Isabella Laböck; in the PGS she only had to admit defeat to Rosa Czipf .

After mixed results at the end of 2007, she surprised on January 9, 2008 with a second place at the World Cup race in Bad Gastein . On March 15, 2008 she celebrated her first World Cup victory in parallel slalom in Valmalenco ahead of Michelle Gorgone and Claudia Riegler from Austria . In December 2008 she reached her last podium for the time being in Limone Piemonte . She has to wait three years for the next podium, until she can take third place in the parallel slalom in Carezza in Italy in December 2011. On December 21, 2012 she was successful again in Carezza, this time in the parallel giant slalom.

At the beginning of the 2012/13 season she reached third place in the parallel giant slalom in Carezza . At the Snowboard World Championship 2013 in Stoneham , she finished 32nd in the parallel giant slalom. In March 2013 she won her second World Cup victory in the parallel giant slalom in La Molina . She finished the season in seventh place in the parallel giant slalom ranking and sixth in the parallel ranking. At the German championship in 2013 she won gold in the parallel giant slalom and in the parallel slalom. On February 22, 2014, she won the silver medal in the parallel slalom at the Olympic Games in Sochi . For this, she was awarded the Silver Laurel Leaf on May 8, 2014 by Federal President Joachim Gauck . She is also an honorary member of the WSV Bischofswiesen.

She ended her career at the end of the 2018/19 season.

Anke Wöhrer lives in Bernau am Chiemsee . In 2010 she successfully completed her training as a police chief in Bad Endorf and has already been promoted to chief police officer. Anke Wöhrer married Florian Wöhrer in June 2016 and took her husband's last name.

Web links

Commons : Anke Karstens  - Collection of pictures, videos and audio files

• Official website
• Anke Wöhrer in the database of the International Ski Association (English)
• Anke Wöhrer in the Sports-Reference database (English; archived from the original )
• Short portrait ( memento from December 18, 2013 in the Internet Archive ) at the Snowboard Association Germany

Individual evidence

1. ↑ R. Schopper, SVD-Raceteam 07/08 ( Memento of the original from March 5, 2016 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. , at X-Aces.com , viewed January 10, 2008 
2. ↑ Page no longer available , search in web archives: “Anke Karstens wins Snowboard World Cup” , ad-hoc-news.de of March 15, 2008.
3. ↑ Awarding of the silver bay leaf. The Federal President , May 5, 2014, accessed on March 15, 2020 . 
4. ↑ Servus, Ciao, Goodbye, Thank you. March 20, 2019, accessed March 25, 2019 .