Jenny Wolf

	Jenny Wolf
nation	Germany
birthday	January 31, 1979
place of birth	East Berlin
size	172 cm
Weight	72 kg
Career
discipline	sprint
society	Ice sports club Berlin '08
Trainer	Thomas Schubert
status	resigned
End of career	2014
Medal table
winter Olympics
Sprint World Championships
Individual distance world championships
	Placements in the speed skating world cup
Debut in the World Cup	January 1999
World Cup victories	60
Total toilet 100	1. (05/06 - 08/09)
Total toilet 500	1. (05/06 - 10/11)
	last change: end of season 2013/14

Jenny Wolf (born January 31, 1979 in East Berlin ) is a former German speed skater . At major events it won 19 gold, nine silver and seven bronze medals.

Career

Beginnings

Wolf's parents found out in 1987 through a newspaper advertisement that an ice skating club was looking for new speed skaters. So she started her career at Dynamo Süd-Ost. Her first competition she contested in the 1989/90 season at the Berlin Children's and Youth in Four struggle of the age group U 11 and was third despite falling in the standings. After that, she competed in various youth competitions. In 1992 she was accepted into the sports school in Hohenschönhausen . In 1996 she was at the German Sprint four-way championship in Berlin 11th with the best time of the season, in 1997 fifth and 1998 sixth. At the German individual distance junior championships in 1997 in Erfurt, she won the 500 meter title and was runner-up over 1000 meters. At the German individual distance championships in Berlin in 1998, she achieved seventh place over 500 meters. At the German individual distance junior championships in Berlin, she was sixth over 500 meters and third over 1000 meters.

1999 to 2002

In the 1998/99 season she made her debut in the Speed Skating World Cup ; she only contested a few races. In the overall World Cup over 500 meters she came in 33rd place. In 1999 she was ninth over 500 meters at the German individual distance championships in Berlin , seventh over 1000 meters and sixth in the sprint four-way fight in Erfurt . In the 1999/00 season she achieved midfield results in the 500 meter competitions and landed in the overall standings over 500 meters in 21st place and in the 1000 meters in 35th place. At the German championship in the sprint four-way fight in 2000 in Inzell she came fourth and at the German individual distance championships in 2000 in Berlin she won the bronze medal over 500 meters and was tenth over 1000 meters. At her very first individual distance world championships in 2000 in Nagano she finished 16th over 500 meters and at the Sprint World Championships 2000 in Seoul she came 21st over 500 meters.

In the 2000/01 season she was able to increase her performance in the 500 meters. In the overall ranking she landed in 15th place. At the 2001 Individual Distance World Championships in Salt Lake City , she improved over 500 meters to 13th place over the previous year. At the second sprint world championships in 2001 in Inzell, Wolf came in 26th place. At the German individual distance championships in 2001 in Berlin, she took sixth place over 500 meters, was eighth over 1000 meters and in the sprint four-way fight in Inzell she reached seventh place. In the 2001/02 season she got several top ten places. In the overall ranking of the 500 meters, she climbed one place to 14th compared to the previous year and in the 1000 meters she landed on 37th place. At the German individual distance championships in Berlin in 2002, she reached fourth place over 500 meters, seventh place over 1000 meters and she won the silver medal in the sprint four-way battle in Erfurt. Wolf competed in their third sprint world championships in Hamar in 2002 and improved by three places to 23rd place over the previous year. At her first Winter Olympics in 2002 , she reached 15th place in the 500-meter run.

2003 to 2006

In the 2002/03 season she managed a second place over 500 meters at the World Cup in Harbin . In the overall World Cup ranking over 500 meters, she came seventh. This improved her overall ranking considerably. At the German individual distance championships in 2003 in Erfurt, she became champion over 100 meters, runner-up over 500 meters and came fifth over 1000 meters. In the sprint four -way battle in Inzell, she was runner -up again behind Monique Garbrecht-Enfeldt . At her fourth Sprint World Championships in 2003 in Calgary , she was 17th, but ran the fourth-best time on the second 500 meters. One season later , Wolf achieved his first World Cup victory over 100 meters. In the overall standings over 100 meters she was second and over 500 meters eighth. At the German individual distance championships in 2004 in Erfurt she was again champion over 100 meters, over 500 meters she won the bronze medal with the season's best time and in the sprint four-way battle in Berlin she was third. At her third individual distance world championships in Seoul in 2004 , she improved significantly over 500 meters. She finished fourth with 78.320 seconds, so she only missed bronze by three hundredths of a second. At her fifth sprint world championships in Nagano in 2004 , she finished 22nd.

In the 2004/05 season she managed to finish second over 100 meters in Erfurt. At the end of the season, she came second in the overall standings over 100 meters, as in the previous season, and tenth over 500 meters. At the German individual distance championships in Berlin in 2005, Wolf was again champion over 100 meters, second over 500 meters and sixth over 1000 meters. In the sprint four-way battle in Inzell, she won the silver medal. She finished her fourth individual distance world championships in 2005 in Inzell over 500 meters in eighth place. Her sixth sprint world championships in Salt Lake City in 2005 , she finished in 18th place. In the 2005/06 season she achieved her international breakthrough, as she won once over 100 and twice over 500 meters. In addition, she won the overall rankings in the World Cup on these routes. At the German individual distance championships in Berlin in 2006, Wolf was again champion over 100 and 500 meters. In the sprint four-way fight in Erfurt, she won the bronze medal. Before the Olympic Winter Games, she suffered a setback at the 2006 Sprint World Championships in Heerenveen , because she only came in 13th. At the 2006 Winter Olympics in Turin , she came 6th in the 500-meter run.

2007 to 2011

Wolf at the 2009 World Individual Distance Championships

Her actual parade route was initially the non-Olympic 100 meters, where she was among the world's best. At the beginning of the 2006/07 season she made her final breakthrough. She won two 500 meter races against the entire world elite on her home track and set a world record for the flatlands. On March 4, 2007, she set a new world record over 100 meters in a time of 10.28 seconds. So she improved the old record of Svetlana Schurowa by 0.03 seconds. As in the previous year, Wolf won the overall World Cups on the 100 and 500 meter courses. At the individual distance world championships in 2007 in Kearns ( Salt Lake County ) she won the gold medal on the Olympic ice rink in 2002 over 500 meters with a world record time of 37.04 seconds and thus her first medal at world championships. At the German single-distance championships in 2007 in Erfurt she was again over 100 meters champion, over 500 meters she was only beaten 11th in the sprint four-way fight in Berlin, she won the gold medal.

In the 2007/08 season she was able to win a race twice over 100 meters and twelve times over 500 meters. At the World Cup in Hamar, Norway, she improved her flatland world record to 37.52 seconds and undercut her five-day record from Heerenveen by 0.08 seconds. She was over 100 and over 500 meters World Cup winner. At the German single distance championships in 2008 in Erfurt, she won the 500 meter title. In the sprint four-way fight in Inzell, she took first place in all disciplines and overall. At the individual distance world championships in Nagano in 2008 , she defended her world championship title from the previous year over the 500 meter sprint distance. She won the Sprint World Championship in Heerenveen on 19/20. January 2008 the title. With three victories over 100 meters and with ten victories over 500 meters she ended the season 2008/09 with two World Cup victories each over 100 and 500 meters. At the German individual distance championships in Berlin in 2009, she won the 500 meter title. At the Individual Distance World Championships in Richmond in 2009 , she was able to win the 500 meter title for the third time in a row with a track record and season best. At the Sprint World Championship in Moscow in 2009 she was unable to defend the title from the previous year, but she managed to take first place twice over 500 meters, twice tenth place and so she finished second overall with the best time of the season.

In the 2009/10 season she recorded eight victories over 500 meters and was again the overall World Cup winner. At the World Cup in Salt Lake City on December 11, 2009, she again set a 500-meter world record in 37.00 seconds and thus undercut her own record from 2007 by another 0.02 seconds. At the German individual distance championships in Berlin in 2010, she won the title again over 500 meters. At the 2010 Sprint World Championship in Obihiro she was third overall, but Wolf took second place in the two 500-meter runs. On February 16, 2010 Wolf won the silver medal at the Olympic Games in Vancouver over 2 × 500 m. On February 18, 2010, she was able to reach 17th place over 1000 meters. As in the previous season, she won eight World Cups over 500 meters and was overall World Cup winner over 500 meters for the sixth time . At the German individual distance championships in 2011 in Erfurt, she won the gold medal over 500 meters and the silver medal over 1000 meters. She was also able to take the title over 500 meters at the individual distance world championships in 2011 in Inzell, again with a track record and best time of the season. The Sprint World Championship 2011 in Heerenveen was disappointing for Wolf with eighth place overall. With 21st place in the final 1000-meter race, she was passed on to eighth place.

2012 to 2014

The 2011/12 season did not go as well as the previous one. Wolf only won two races over 500 meters and was third in the final ranking. At the German individual distance championships in 2012 in Inzell, she won the 500 meter race with the best time of the season. In the sprint four-way battle in Berlin, she started the first 500 and 1000 meter races, but was not counted because she did not start on the second day. At the individual distance world championships in 2012 , she finished sixth over 500 meters. At the Sprint World Championships in 2012 in Calgary, Wolf set a season best of over 500 meters and a personal best of over 1000 meters, and achieved ninth place overall with a personal best of 150.670 points. On March 25, 2012, Wolf announced that he would continue until the Olympic Games in Sochi 2014 . There she took sixth place over 500 meters. On March 16, 2014, she ran her last race in Heerenveen and then ended her active career.

Private

In August 2008, joined Wolf at the Humboldt University of Berlin her degree in German studies with the Master, and then took a degree in business studies in Berlin. Wolf and the Bundeswehr officer Oliver Lotze have been a couple since 2007; on January 8, 2011 they married at Schloss Liebenberg .