Cindy classes

Cindy classes
nation	Canada
birthday	August 12, 1979
place of birth	Winnipeg ,  Canada
size	172 cm
Career
status	active
Medal table
Olympic medals 1 × 2 × 3 × World Cup medals 5 × 7 × 6 ×
winter Olympics bronze 2002 Salt Lake City 3000 m gold 2006 Turin 1500 m silver 2006 Turin 1000 m silver 2006 Turin team bronze 2006 Turin 3000 m bronze 2006 Turin 5000 m  All around world championships silver 2002 Heerenveen All-around gold 2003 Gothenburg All-around silver 2005 Moscow All-around gold 2006 Calgary All-around bronze 2007 Heerenveen All-around  Sprint World Championships silver 2003 Calgary sprint bronze 2007 Hamar sprint  Individual distance world championships bronze 2001 Salt Lake City 1500 m bronze 2003 Berlin 1000 m silver 2004 Seoul 1500 m bronze 2004 Seoul 1000 m gold 2005 Inzell 3000 m gold 2005 Inzell 1500 m silver 2005 Inzell Team tracking silver 2007 Salt Lake City 1500 m bronze 2007 Salt Lake City 3000 m gold 2011 Inzell Team tracking silver 2012 Heerenveen Team tracking
Placements in the speed skating world cup
Debut in the World Cup 1999/00  World Cup victories 18th  Total toilet 1500 1. ( 2002/03 , 2004/05 )  Total toilet 3000/5000 1. ( 2005/06 )
Podium placements 1. 2. 3.  1000 meters 1 3 1  1500 meters 8th 5 6th  3000 meters 4th 5 4th  5000 meters 0 0 1  Team competition 5 4th 0
last change: March 20, 2013

Cynthia "Cindy" Nicole Klassen , OM (born August 12, 1979 in Winnipeg , Manitoba ) is a Canadian speed skater .

Cindy Klassen comes from a Russian Mennonite family who immigrated to Manitoba from the Ukraine (then southern Russia). She attended the Maple Leaf School in North Kildonan (Winnipeg) and graduated from the Mennonite Brethern Collegiate in Elmwood (also in Winnipeg). Klassen feels committed to their Christian values ​​and traditions and occasionally confesses them publicly. She began her athletic development in her early childhood. She starts for the WSSC club from Winnipeg.

Klassen began her sporting career as an ice hockey player , in her youth she played for the Canadian junior national team. When she was not nominated for the 1998 Olympics, she switched to speed skating, where she quickly demonstrated her talent . She won the bronze medal over 3000 meters at the 2002 Winter Olympics in Salt Lake City . In 2005 she became world champion in both 1500 and 3000 meters. At the 20th Olympic Winter Games in Turin in 2006 , she won the gold medal over 1500 meters and a silver medal over 1000 meters and in the team pursuit as well as bronze over 3000 meters and the 5000 meters.

At the all-around world championships on 18./19. March 2006 took place in Calgary , Canada , Klassen won the gold medal in the Olympic Oval there (victory on all four competition courses) by a large margin ahead of Claudia Pechstein and the Canadian Kristina Groves . This was her second all-around world title after she won the World Cup in 2003. Klassen holds the world record over 1500 and 3000 meters. In their home town of Winnipeg, Klassen is referred to as Winnipegwonder .

At the Olympic Games, Klassen was honored with a 25-cent Canadian special coin.

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statistics

Personal bests speed skating

distance	time	date	place
500 m	37.51	March 18, 2006	Calgary , Canada
1000 m	1: 13.11	March 25, 2006	Calgary , Canada
1,500 m	1: 51.79	November 20, 2005	Salt Lake City , USA
3,000 m	3.53.34	March 18, 2006	Calgary , Canada
5,000 m	6.48.97	March 19, 2006	Calgary , Canada

(As of November 21, 2009)

World Cup placements

placement	500 m	1000 m	1500 m	3000 m	5000 m	team
1st place		1	8th	3
2nd place		3	5	4th		2
3rd place		1	6th	5	1
Top 10		8th	15th	9	4th

(As of November 21, 2009)

Web links

• Cindy Klassen in the database of Sports-Reference (English; archived from the original )
• Homepage of Cindy Klassen
• Photos by Cindy Klassen at DESGphoto
• Statistics at speed skating news
• Cindy Klassen biography (in English)

supporting documents

1. ↑ http://olympic.ca/2010/01/14/klassen-honoured-with-25-cent-coin/