Daniela Anschütz-Thoms

Daniela Anschütz-Thoms
nation	Germany
birthday	November 20, 1974
place of birth	Erfurt ,  GDR
Career
society	ESC Erfurt
Trainer	Stephan Gneupel
status	resigned
End of career	2010
Medal table
Olympic medals 2 × 0 × 0 × World Cup medals 1 × 0 × 4 × EM medals 0 × 2 × 1 × National medals 10 × 13 × 11 ×
winter Olympics gold 2006 Turin team gold 2010 Vancouver team  All around world championships bronze 2003 Gothenburg All-around  Individual distance world championships gold 2005 Inzell team bronze 2007 Salt Lake City team bronze 2008 Nagano team bronze 2008 Nagano 3000 m  All-around European Championships silver 2005 Heerenveen All-around silver 2009 Heerenveen All-around bronze 2010 Hamar All-around
Placements in the speed skating world cup
Debut in the World Cup 1996  World Cup victories 4th  Total toilet 1500 2. (2008/09)  Total toilet 3000/5000 2. (2006/07, 2008/09)
Podium placements 1. 2. 3.  1500 meters 0 4th 2  3000 meters 0 4th 4th  5000 meters 0 1 3  Team competition 4th 2 3

Daniela Anschütz-Thoms , b. Anschütz, (born November 20, 1974 in Erfurt ) is a former German speed skater and Olympic champion .

Anschütz-Thoms has been speed skating since 1984, she started for the ESC Erfurt and was trained by Stephan Gneupel . In 1993/94 she was German junior champion in all-around. Numerous top placements at German, European and World Championships as well as the Olympic Games followed. In 2001/02 and 2002/03 she was German champion over 5000 meters. In 2004/05 she repeated this success and became world champion in a team with Sabine Völker and Anni Friesinger . At the all-around world championships in Berlin in 2008, Daniela Anschütz-Thoms took sixth place as the best German.

On February 16, 2006, Anschütz-Thoms and Anni Friesinger and Claudia Pechstein won the final in the team pursuit run of the 2006 Winter Olympics in Turin against Canada - Germany's first speed skating gold in Turin at the Olympic premiere of this discipline. Again, Anschütz-Thoms became Olympic champion in the team pursuit at the Olympic Games in Vancouver together with Katrin Mattscherodt , Stephanie Beckert and Anni Friesinger-Postma . She often just barely missed the medal ranks at major sporting events, which is why she called herself the “fourth place world champion” towards the end of her career . In total, she reached fourth place in international championships and Olympic Games 24 times. On July 17, 2010, she announced her retirement from competitive sports.

On April 26, 2006, she received the Silver Laurel Leaf for her athletic achievements.

Anschütz-Thoms is a trained legal assistant. She is married.

Speed ​​skating world cup placements

placement	100 m	500 m	1000 m	1500 m	3000 m	5000 m	team
1st place							4th
2nd place				4th	4th	1	2
3rd place				2	4th	3	3
Top 10				30th	26th	8th	2

(As of January 10, 2010)

Web links

Commons : Daniela Anschütz-Thoms  - Collection of images, videos and audio files

• Official website
• Daniela Anschütz-Thoms in the Sports-Reference database (English; archived from the original )
• Statistics on the Speedskatingnews.info page
• Photos by Daniela Anschütz-Thoms
• Statistics at Skateresults
• Statistics at effesport (nld.)

Individual evidence

1. ↑ Anschütz-Thoms the "fourth place world champion" . rp-online.de. Retrieved December 30, 2012.
2. ↑ Anschütz-Thoms ends her career . spiegel.de. Retrieved December 30, 2012.
3. ↑ 11th sports report by the Federal Government on September 3, 2010 to the Bundestag - Printed matter VI / 2152 - page 67