Anni Friesinger-Postma

Anni Friesinger-Postma
Full name	Anna Christine Friesinger-Postma
nation	Germany
birthday	January 11, 1977
place of birth	Bad Reichenhall
size	169 cm
Career
society	DEC Inzell-Frillensee , Team Anni Friesinger
Trainer	Gianni Romme , Markus Eicher , Georg Friesinger
status	resigned
End of career	July 14, 2010
Medal table
Olympic medals 3 × 0 × 2 × World Cup medals 16 × 12 × 2 × EM medals 5 × 1 × 0 × JWM medals 1 × 2 × 0 × National medals 13 × 5 × 5 ×
winter Olympics bronze 1998 Nagano 3000 m gold 2002 Salt Lake City 1500 m gold 2006 Turin team bronze 2006 Turin 1000 m gold 2010 Vancouver team  All around world championships bronze 1998 Heerenveen All-around gold 2001 Budapest All-around gold 2002 Heerenveen All-around gold 2005 Moscow All-around silver 2007 Heerenveen All-around  Sprint World Championships silver 2004 Nagano sprint gold 2007 Hamar sprint silver 2008 Heerenveen sprint  Individual distance world championships silver 1997 Warsaw 3000 m silver 1997 Warsaw 1500 m bronze 1998 Calgary 3000 m gold 1998 Calgary 1500 m silver 2000 Nagano 1500 m silver 2001 Salt Lake City 3000 m gold 2001 Salt Lake City 1500 m gold 2003 Berlin 3000 m gold 2003 Berlin 1500 m gold 2003 Berlin 1000 m silver 2004 Seoul 3000 m gold 2004 Seoul 1500 m gold 2004 Seoul 1000 m gold 2005 Inzell 5000 m silver 2005 Inzell 1000 m gold 2005 Inzell team silver 2005 Inzell 1500 m silver 2007 Salt Lake City 1000 m gold 2008 Nagano 1000 m gold 2008 Nagano 1500 m gold 2009 Richmond 1500 m silver 2009 Richmond 1000 m  All-around European Championships silver 1998 Helsinki All-around gold 2000 Hamar All-around gold 2002 Erfurt All-around gold 2003 Heerenveen All-around gold 2004 Heerenveen All-around gold 2005 Heerenveen All-around
Placements in the speed skating world cup
Debut in the World Cup 1993  World Cup victories 59  Total toilet 1000 1. (2005/06, 2007/08)  Total toilet 1500 1. (2000/01, 2001/02, 2003/04, 2005/06)  Total toilet 3000/5000 1. (2001/02)
Podium placements 1. 2. 3.  500 meters 0 1 0  1000 meters 21st 6th 1  1500 meters 26th 11 5  3000 meters 8th 3 7th  5000 meters 1 1 1  Team competition 3 0 0
last change: February 28, 2010

Anna Christine Friesinger (* 11. January 1977 in Bad Reichenhall as Anna Christine Friesinger ) is a former German speed skater . The three-time Olympic champion and 16-time individual and all-around world champion is one of the most famous German winter athletes and the most popular German speed skaters of all time. She became known through successes such as her victory at the 2002 Olympic Games in Salt Lake City and numerous other victories and placements.

family

She is the daughter of the German Georg Friesinger (1953-1996) and the Polish Janina Korowicka (* 1954), both speed skaters. She has a brother, Jan Friesinger , who is also a speed skater. Her sister Agnes Friesinger was also an internationally successful speed skater. On August 11, 2009, she married her long-term partner, the former Dutch speed skater Ids Postma , in Salzburg's Mirabell Palace , which she celebrated at Aigen Palace . She lives mostly in Salzburg and on a farm in Dearsum , the Netherlands , where her husband was born in Friesland . Friesinger has two daughters (* 2011 and 2014).

Athlete profile

Anni Friesinger-Postma was one of the typical all-rounders in speed skating . She was able to keep up with her competitors internationally both in the 500 m sprint and on the longer endurance courses over 3000 and 5000 m. She dominated the 1000 and 1500 m in the last few years before the end of her career.

She is also very popular and popular in the Netherlands because of her success in all-round four-way combat. Friesinger-Postma is an athlete ambassador for the development aid organization Right to Play , supports the Christiane Eichenhofer Foundation and the Children's Rheumatism Foundation and is always active for the German AIDS aid organization. In addition to German, she also speaks fluent English , French , Polish and Dutch .

Athletic career

At the individual distance world championships for speed skaters in Seoul in 2004 , Anni Friesinger-Postma won the world championship title for the third time in a row on her parade route over 1500 meters and for the fourth time since 1998. At the German Championships she reached first place twelve times. At the 2006 Olympic Games in Turin , she won gold in the team pursuit. In the 1000 m individual she won bronze behind her long-time Dutch friend Marianne Timmer and Cindy Klassen ( Canada ). The three top runners were within 6 hundredths of a second.

At the 2010 Olympic Games in Vancouver , Friesinger-Postma was handicapped by problems with his right knee, which had been operated on in the summer of 2008 because of a cycling accident. Over 1000 meters she reached 14th place as the best German speed skater after she ran unsafe in a curve and slipped her right leg. Friesinger-Postma then finished ninth over 1500 meters. Together with Daniela Anschütz-Thoms and Stephanie Beckert she took part in the team pursuit. In the semi-final against the USA, Friesinger-Postma lost her rhythm in the penultimate corner and lost contact with Beckert and Anschütz-Thoms. Running alone, she fell a few meters from the finish and slid across the finish line on her stomach. While sliding, she stretched out her right leg and thus triggered the time measurement at the finish line, which is based on the tip of the runner and was thus able to save a lead of two tenths of a second over Team USA at the finish. In the final, Katrin Mattscherodt ran as planned instead of Friesinger-Postma, the German team defeated Japan by just two hundredths of a second. After severe cartilage damage was diagnosed during a knee operation in March 2010, Anni Friesinger-Postma announced her retirement from active sport in July 2010.

After the active career

In January 2011 she was at the all-around European championships in Ritten, Italy, as an analyst for the Dutch television network NOS and is still co-moderating the international championships. Anni Friesinger has been a brand ambassador for the SDK since the beginning of 2011, and for the textile discounter KiK since June 1, 2015 . She also works for the companies Medima and K2 Sports.

Beyond the sporting sector, she tried to gain a foothold in the entertainment sector with the docu-soap Real Cool Runnings , which was broadcast by VOX in early 2014 . This TV format was about the idea of ​​turning Kenyan runners into speed skaters, who were trained and supported by Anni Friesinger and Michael Stöberl.

Since 2015 she has been managing director of a children's boutique in Salzburg.

In January 2017 she was part of the Olympians team in the game show Duel der Stars - Die Sat.1 Promiarena . In the same year she took part in the 10th season of the dance show Let's Dance . In 2018 she took part in the TV show Das Große Promibacken .

During the 2018 Winter Olympics she worked as an expert for the rights holder Eurosport.

Victories and placements

• German championship juniors
  • 9 × 1st place

• German championship
  • 13 × 1st place

• European championship (so-called "little four-way fight" consisting of 500 m, 3000 m, 1500 m and 5000 m)
  • 2005: 1st place
  • 2004: 1st place
  • 2003: 1st place
  • 2002: 1st place
  • 2000: 1st place
  • 1998: 2nd place

• World Championship Juniors
  • 1996: 1st place
  • 1995: 2nd place
  • 1994: 2nd place

• Overall World Cup 1000 m
  • 2008: 1st place
  • 2007: 3rd place
  • 2006: 1st place

• Overall World Cup 1500 m
  • 2007: 2nd place
  • 2006: 1st place
  • 2004: 1st place
  • 2002: 1st place
  • 2001: 1st place

• Overall World Cup 3000 m / 5000 m
  • 2005: 3rd place
  • 2004: 3rd place
  • 2002: 1st place
  • 2001: 3rd place
  • 2000: 3rd place

• Established world records
  • 7, including 4 junior world records: 1000 m, 1500 m, 3000 m, all-round
  • 3 × 1500 m
  • 1 × 1500 m outdoor world record
  • 1 × 1000 m outdoor world record

• Personal bests
  • 500 m - 37.77 sec.
  • 1000 m - 1: 13.49 min. (German record)
  • 1500 m - 1: 53.09 min. (German record)
  • 3000 m - 3: 58.52 min.
  • 5000 m - 6: 58.39 min.

honors and awards

• 1996: Junior Sportswoman of the Year from the German Sports Aid Foundation
• 1998: Silver bay leaf of the Federal Republic of Germany
• 2001: Sportswoman of the year, 2nd place
• 2002: Sport Personality Award from Eurosport
• 2003: Speed ​​skater of the year
• 2003: Sportswoman of the year, 2nd place
• 2004: Sportswoman of the year, 2nd place
• 2005: Sportswoman of the year , 2nd place
• 2007: Bavarian Sports Prize , category "Personal Prize from the Bavarian Prime Minister"
• 2012: Bavarian State Medal for Services to Health

Autobiography

• My life, my sport, my best fitness tips March 2004, Goldmann. ISBN 3-442-39059-1

Web links

Commons : Anni Friesinger  - Collection of Images

• Friesinger-Postmas website
• Team Anni Friesinger
• Pictures and photos by Friesinger-Postma
• Statistics on the speed skating news page
• Statistics at effesport (nld.)

Individual evidence

1. ↑ http://www.kicker.de/news/mehrsport/startseite/527579/artikel_Karriereende_Friesinger-Postma-hoert-auf.html
2. ↑ As of today, Anni Friesinger is also called Postma In: Die Welt from August 11, 2009
3. ↑ ^{a b} Kicker No. 3/2011 from January 6, 2011, page 47
4. ^ Speed ​​skater Anni Friesinger-Postma has baby in Meppen . August 14, 2011. Archived from the original on August 16, 2011. Info: The archive link was automatically inserted and not yet checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. Retrieved August 14, 2011. 
5. ↑ daughter in the world . May 10, 2014. Retrieved May 10, 2014.
6. ^ New Wave from Upper Bavaria , in: spiegel.de, March 19, 2001
7. ↑ Olympia: Friesinger-Postma "I feel abandoned"
8. ↑ Olympia in Vancouver - Sexy Anni Friesinger-Postma on "catwalk Olympia": Hope to visit Ids  ( page no longer available , search in web archives )  Info: The link was automatically marked as defective. Please check the link according to the instructions and then remove this notice.  
9. ^ Süddeutsche Zeitung of July 2, 2007, accessed on March 3, 2010: Anni Friesinger - operated on after a serious bicycle accident
10. ↑ welt.de: Speed ​​skating - 14th place - Anni Friesinger with indisputable time
11. ↑ focus.de: Wüst runs to Olympic victory over 1500m , focus.de.
12. ↑ German speed skaters win sensational gold , spiegel.de
13. ↑ Speed ​​skating star retires. Friesinger stops. “My body is no longer doing it” In: Bild.de, accessed on March 7, 2014.
14. ↑ - ( Memento of the original from January 27, 2011 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. 
15. ↑ - ( Memento of the original from December 22nd, 2015 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. 
16. ↑ Focus Online, accessed January 22, 2014
17. ↑ Real Cool Runnings In: sueddeutsche.de, accessed on January 22, 2014
18. ↑ Michaela Posch: Ex-speed skater Anni Friesinger-Postma opens children's boutique in Salzburg In: salzburg24.at, accessed on October 27, 2019