Heike Warnicke

Heike Warnicke
nation	German Democratic Republic of Germany
birthday	June 1, 1966
place of birth	Weimar ,  GDR
Career
society	SC Turbine Erfurt (1980–1989), ESC Erfurt (1989–1999)
Trainer	Gabriele Fuß (until 1994) Stephan Gneupel
status	resigned
End of career	1998
Medal table
Olympic medals 0 × 2 × 0 × World Cup medals 0 × 1 × 1 × EM medals 0 × 2 × 2 × National medals 9 × 16 × 3 ×
winter Olympics silver 1992 Albertville 5000 m silver 1992 Albertville 3000 m  All around world championships silver 1991 Hamar Small four-way battle bronze 1993 Berlin Small four-way battle  All-around European Championships bronze 1990 Heerenveen Small four-way battle silver 1991 Sarajevo Small four-way battle bronze 1992 Heerenveen Small four-way battle silver 1993 Heerenveen Small four-way battle
Placements in the speed skating world cup
Debut in the World Cup January 25, 1986  World Cup victories 5  Total toilet 1500 3. ( 1992/93 )  Total toilet 3000/5000 1. ( 1988/89 , 1990/91 )
Podium placements 1. 2. 3.  1500 meters 0 3 8th  3000 meters 5 10 5  5000 meters 0 5 3

Heike Sinaki (born June 1, 1966 in Weimar , née Schalling , divorced Heike Warnicke ) is a former German speed skater . From 1984 to 1998 she took part in major international events, initially for the GDR and later for the reunified Germany. Behind her teammate Gunda Niemann from ESC Erfurt , she won two Olympic silver medals over 3000 meters and 5000 meters in 1992 as well as several medals at world and European championships in all- around competitions in the early 1990s .

Athletic career

Heike Schalling started speed skating in her early youth. Among other things, she trained together with Constanze Scandolo (later Moser), who was about the same age, from 1980 as an athlete at SC Turbine Erfurt with Gabriele Fuß , and from the mid-1980s Gunda Kleemann (later Niemann or Niemann-Stirnemann) also belonged to the training group. In 1983, Schalling won the first titles in her age group in the 1500 m and 3000 m in the children and youth spartakiad . As a result, she made her debut in 1984 at the Junior World Championship and at the European Championship in the adult division, where she finished seventh and fourteenth in the small fourfold . In the following year, at the age of 18, she was sixth at her World Cup premiere (in which it came to a triple victory in the GDR led by Andrea Schöne-Mitscherlich ) and won two titles at the national championships . For Erfurt and her club, these were the first titles in women's competitions that had previously been shaped by female athletes from Dresden and East Berlin. Although she subsequently achieved further results among the top ten at major events, unlike her club colleagues Scandolo and Kleemann, she was not considered in the GDR line-up for the 1988 Winter Olympics.

In the 1988/89 season, Schalling moved up permanently to the first team after several leading GDR speed skaters had resigned. In the same winter, she won the first three of her five World Cup victories, each of which she achieved over the 3000 meter distance and with which she also won the overall long-distance ranking in the World Cup. Schalling (after their first wedding in 1990: Warnicke) subsequently established himself among the world's best and between 1990 and 1993 won silver and bronze medals at six of eight world and European championships in all-around competitions. In five of these six second and third places, the title went to her team-mate Gunda Niemann, who rose to become the most successful speed skater of the 1990s. Warnicke stated that he saw Niemann as a “competitor and friend at the same time”: After Constanze Moser's resignation in 1990, in the first few years after reunification, both were the only remaining athletes in Gabi Fuß's Erfurt training group. In retrospect, Niemann spoke of this group (including the trainer) as “a trio that stuck together like bad luck and so survived the turmoil of the sporting unit”. She also highlighted her roommate Warnicke as her “strongest opponent” and described the internal competition as motivating and performance-enhancing. At the 1992 Winter Olympics in Albertville , Warnicke ran over 3000 meters in the first pair with a time of 4: 22.88 minutes, which only Niemann undercut. She also won the silver medal behind Niemann in the 5000 meter race , for which she was awarded the Silver Laurel Leaf .

Neither in the 1993/94 World Cup , where she did not reach the podium in any race for the first time in six years, nor in the 1994 Olympic competitions in Hamar (with a 15th place over 3000 meters as the best result), Warnicke continued her results from previous years. She separated after the season - like Gunda Niemann - from her trainer Gabi Fuß and switched to Stephan Gneupel 's group, which also trained in Erfurt . In the next few years she continued to achieve top ten results in the World Cup and was on the podium in four competitions there until 1998. Also due to the rise of younger runners such as Claudia Pechstein and Anni Friesinger , she received fewer assignments at major international events. In December 1996, Warnicke was the first German athlete to try out the folding ice skate used by the Dutch after a test ban initially imposed by the German speed skating association . In her third and last Olympic participation in 1998 she was 14th over 5000 meters. In the winter of 1998/99 she did not take part in any more competitions and declared her final career end in March 1999.

Personal

After graduating from secondary school, Schalling completed an apprenticeship as an industrial clerk and completed an internship at Thüringer Allgemeine in 1992 . In the mid-1990s she worked full-time for the City of Weimar in the field of public relations.

In his first marriage, Heike Schalling was married to the speed skater Jürgen Warnicke. In 1999 she emigrated to California and lives there as Heike Sinaki, her second marriage to a computer specialist, with whom she has a daughter (* 2001).

statistics

winter Olympics

Heike Warnicke was part of the German squad at three consecutive Winter Games from 1992 to 1998. She took part in six competitions in which she won two silver medals.

winter Olympics		1500 m	3000 m	5000 m
year	place
1992	Albertville	8th.	2.	2.
1994	Lillehammer	26th	15th	-
1998	Nagano	-	-	15th

Individual distance world championships

Warnicke took part twice in the individual distance world championships , which took place for the first time in 1996 and remained without a medal.

Individual distance world championship		5000 m
year	place
1996	Hamar	7th
1997	Warsaw	4th

All-around world championships

From 1985 to 1996 Warnicke took part in ten all- around world championships and won a silver and a bronze medal. The following table shows their times - and their placements in brackets behind them - on the four individual routes run as well as the resulting total number of points after the Samalog and the final placement . The order of the distances corresponds to their order in the program of the all-around world championships; only in 1996 the 1500 meters were run before the 3000 meters.

All-around world championship		500 m	3000 m	1500 m	5000 m	Points	space
year	place
1985	Sarajevo	43.70 (21)	4: 37.86 (3)	2: 09.49 (6)	7: 47.90 (6)	179.963	6th
1987	West Allis	44.90 (27)	4: 40.44 (5)	2: 17.64 (12)	8: 04.06 (5)	185.926	8th.
1989	Lake Placid	45.51 (20)	4: 40.36 (2)	2: 16.04 (16)	8: 00.92 (5)	185.674	8th.
1990	Calgary	43.05 (21)	4: 21.61 (3)	2: 06.95 (10)	7: 28.37 (1)	173.804	5.
1991	Hamar	44.37 (17)	4: 38.70 (2)	2: 12.42 (3)	7: 53.64 (2)	182,324	2.
1992	Heerenveen	42.94 (19)	4: 24.69 (4)	2: 09.06 (14)	7: 36.09 (6)	175.684	5.
1993	Berlin	42.82 (16)	4: 23.64 (2)	2: 08.41 (3)	7: 33.48 (3)	174.911	3.
1994	Butte	43.60 (20)	4: 38.87 (10)	2: 15.57 (13)	8: 10.89 (7)	184.357	11.
1995	Tynset	43.40 (17)	4: 27.68 (4)	2: 09.55 (8)	7: 39.42 (3)	177.138	5.
1996	Inzell	43.92 (23)	4: 29.87 (4)	2: 13.02 (22)	7: 52.64 (6)	180.502	10.

All-around European Championships

From 1984 to 1996 Warnicke took part in eleven all- around European championships , winning two silver and two bronze medals. The following table shows their times - and their placements in brackets behind them - on the four individual routes run as well as the resulting total number of points after the Samalog and the final placement . The arrangement of the distances corresponds to their order in the program of the all-around European championships up to 1990; from 1991 onwards, the 1500-meter route was run before the 3000-meter route.

All-around European Championship		500 m	3000 m	1500 m	5000 m	Points	space
year	place
1984	Alma-ata	44.18 (23)	4: 42.31 (12)	2: 12.41 (16)	8: 12.24 (12)	184,591	14th
1985	Groningen	DSQ	4: 43.32 (9)	2: 20.24 (16)	-	93.966	NC
1986	Geithus	46.04 (25)	4: 40.28 (11)	2: 16.26 (18)	7: 59.51 (6)	186.124	14th
1987	Groningen	45.64 (24)	4: 36.24 (3)	2: 16.29 (9)	7: 57.22 (3)	184.832	5.
1989	Berlin	44.50 (16)	4: 28.54 (12)	2: 13.86 (9)	7: 47.80 (3)	180.656	6th
1990	Heerenveen	43.11 (21)	4: 23.96 (4)	2: 07.53 (4)	7: 31.53 (2)	174.766	3.
1991	Sarajevo	44.21 (11)	4: 27.27 (2)	2: 09.70 (2)	7: 33.12 (2)	177,300	2.
1992	Heerenveen	43.18 (17)	4: 18.67 (2)	2: 07.47 (6)	7: 21.06 (2)	172.887	3.
1993	Heerenveen	42.41 (10)	4: 17.84 (2)	2: 05.19 (3)	7: 17.05 (2)	170.818	2.
1994	Hamar	43.28 (18)	4: 21.02 (6)	2: 07.70 (10)	7: 27.22 (4)	174.081	9.
1996	Heerenveen	43.63 (16)	4: 25.70 (7)	2: 09.37 (7)	7: 35.56 (5)	176.592	9.

World Cup victories

Warnicke appeared between January 25, 1986 and March 22, 1998 to 103 World Cup races, of which she finished 39 on the podium and won 5, each over 3000 meters.

No.	date	train	place	distance	time
1.	Feb 12, 1989	Olympic oval	Calgary	3000 meters	4: 17.71 min.
2.	11th Mar 1989	Inzell ice rink	Inzell	3000 meters	4: 20.78 min.
3.	18 Mar 1989	Thialf	Heerenveen	3000 meters	4: 19.20 min.
4th	Jan. 13, 1991	Ice stadium Davos	Davos	3000 meters	4: 36.25 min.
5.	Jan. 17, 1993	Ice stadium Davos	Davos	3000 meters	4: 22.04 min.

Web links

• Heike Warnicke in the Munzinger archive ( beginning of article freely available)
• Heike Warnicke in the Sports-Reference database (English; archived from the original )
• Statistics on schaatsstatistieken.nl
• Statistics at speed skating news
• Photos at DESGphoto

Individual evidence

1. ↑ cf. German Speed ​​Skating Association (DESG): Statistical Yearbook 2015 in Speed ​​Skating and Short Track (PDF), pp. 18-19. Retrieved May 14, 2020.
2. ↑ At the European Championships in 1993 , Niemann fell over 500 meters and finished sixth in the final ranking. The Austrian Emese Hunyady won the title by a tenth of a point ahead of Warnicke. In Niemann's victories, Warnicke was several points behind her club mate.
3. ↑ ^{a b} Gunda Niemann-Stirnemann: I want. Das Neue Berlin 2000, pp. 72–73.
4. ↑ Gunda Niemann-Stirnemann: I want. The New Berlin 2000, p. 70.
5. ↑ Landessportbund Niedersachsen e. V.: VIBSS, The Federal President and his duties in the field of sport: ... On June 23, 1992, Federal President Richard von Weizsäcker awarded disabled and non-disabled athletes, namely the medal winners of the 1992 Olympic and Paralymic Games, with the silver laurel leaf.
6. ↑ Gunda Niemann-Stirnemann: I want. The New Berlin 2000, p. 108.
7. ↑ Ronald Reng: Heike Warnicke (30): speed skater as a shoe tester. In: Süddeutsche Zeitung. December 21, 1996, p. 52. Retrieved from Munzinger Online .
8. ↑ Gunda Niemann-Stirnemann: I want. The New Berlin 2000, p. 129.
9. ↑ Clear victories for Rome, London and Moscow in the European Football Cup. In: New Germany. March 6, 1999.
10. ↑ Heike Sinaki's curriculum vitae on own website, archived version from September 28, 2007 in the Internet Archive .
11. ^ "Birthdays", Sport-Bild from May 26, 1993, p. 55.
12. ↑ Matthias Opatz: Heike Sinaki: Alte Heimat is now a holiday destination on speedskatingnews.info. July 11, 2003, accessed May 14, 2020.
13. ↑ ^{a b c d} Profile on speedskatingnews , accessed on May 14, 2020.
14. ↑ Profile on schaatsstatistieken.nl , accessed on May 14, 2020.