Bianca Walter

	Bianca Walter
	; Bianca Walter (2012)
nation	Germany
birthday	March 31, 1990
place of birth	Dresden , GDR
size	167 cm
job	Police Chief Candidate
Career
discipline	Short track
society	EV Dresden
Trainer	Miroslav Boyadzhiev
National squad	since 2006
Pers. Best times	500 m - 43.429 sec (16 Nov 2017 in Seoul German record); 1000 m - 1: 29.448 min (Oct. 20, 2012 in Calgary, German record); 3000 m relay - 4: 13.691 min (Feb. 2013 in Sochi, German record)
status	active
Medal table
European Short Track Championships
	Placements in the Short Track World Cup
Debut in the World Cup	December 1, 2006
1000 m world cup	1x 6th place; 2x 7th place ; 2x 8th place ; 2x 9th place ; 1x 10th place ; 2x 11th place
	last change: August 1, 2014

Bianca Walter (born March 31, 1990 in Dresden ) is a German short tracker . In 2010 she became the European champion with the relay and regularly has top placings in World Cup races in the individual disciplines.

Background and career

Bianca Walter, daughter of the former speed skater Skadi Walter , starts for EV Dresden . Her talent was inherited from her family, who are enthusiastic about ice skating. Her mother was a successful speed skater and her grandmother was a figure skating trainer. Bianca Walter got on ice skates for the first time when she was three. At the age of nine she came to the short track at what was then ESC Dresden , from which EV Dresden emerged in 2001.

In 2006, at the age of 16, she became a member of the German women's short track national team and made her debut in the 2006/07 World Cup season in Saguenay, Canada, and competed in the Junior World Championship for the first time in the same year.

Walter experienced her first international championship at the Junior World Championship in 2006, but she was eliminated in the individual races in the preliminary runs. m a semi-final of the eight best female runners in a World Cup race. In the same year she won her first silver medal with the relay at the European Championships in Turin .

Bianca Walter achieved her greatest sporting success to date at the 2010 European Championships in Dresden in front of a home crowd. Together with her team, she won her first gold medal with the relay here. At the 2010 World Cup in Sofia, she first took part in individual World Cup races. With the team she repeated her seventh place from the previous year at the team world championships in Bormio.

In the 2010/11 season too, Bianca Walter regularly qualified in the World Cup for the semi-finals of the eight best runners in the individual disciplines over 1000 m and 1500 m as well as at the European Championships.

In addition to qualifying for the semi-finals in the individual disciplines over 1000 m and 1500 m at the European Championships in 2012 , she also managed to do this for the first time over the 500 m sprint distance. As in the previous year, she was fourth here with the German national relay.

At the 2013 European Championships in Malmö , Sweden , she won the silver medal with the German relay. In the 2013/2014 season she had to struggle with persistent injuries, so that she could only start in a few World Cup races.

Since October 20, 2012, Bianca Walter has held the German record in the women's short track over the distance of 1000 m with 1: 29.448 minutes, and since February 10, 2013 the German record over the 500 m sprint distance.

Web links

Individual evidence

↑ Bianca Walter. Archived from the original on July 13, 2012 ; Retrieved November 15, 2011 .

personal data
SURNAME	Walter, Bianca
BRIEF DESCRIPTION	German short tracker
DATE OF BIRTH	March 31, 1990
PLACE OF BIRTH	Dresden

[1] Bianca Walter. Archived from the original on July 13, 2012 ; Retrieved November 15, 2011 .