Sabine Völker

Sabine Völker
nation	Germany
birthday	May 11, 1973
place of birth	Erfurt ,  GDR
Career
discipline	sprint
society	EC Erfurt
Trainer	Stephan Gneupel
status	resigned
End of career	June 2, 2006
Medal table
Olympic medals 1 × 2 × 1 × World Cup medals 1 × 2 × 1 × JWM medals 0 × 1 × 1 × National medals 11 × 16 × 9 ×
winter Olympics silver 2002 Salt Lake City 1000 m silver 2002 Salt Lake City 1500 m bronze 2002 Salt Lake City 2 × 500 m gold 2006 Turin team  Individual distance world championships silver 2001 Salt Lake City 1000 m silver 1997 Warsaw 2 × 500 m gold 2007 Inzell team  Sprint World Championships bronze 2005 Salt Lake City sprint bronze Calgary 1999 sprint silver Berlin 1998 sprint
Placements in the speed skating world cup
Debut in the World Cup November 1990  World Cup victories 7th  Total toilet 500 3. (01/02, 97/98)  Total toilet 1000 1. (2001/02)  Total toilet 1500 5th (2004/05)
Podium placements 1. 2. 3.  500 meters 1 7th 11  1000 meters 5 14th 14th  1500 meters 0 2 3  Team competition 1 0 0

Sabine Völker (born May 11, 1973 in Erfurt ) is a former German speed skater .

Völker began speed skating in 1979 and switched to the children's and youth sports school in Erfurt in 1986 . After graduating from high school in 1992, she began studying business administration at the University of Applied Sciences Erfurt, which she graduated with a diploma in 1999.

After three vice world titles (1997 over 500 meters, 1998 in the sprint all-around and 2001 over 1000 meters) she ran a world record over 1000 meters in the 2001/02 season and won the overall World Cup over this distance. At the Olympic Games in 2002 she won three Olympic medals: silver over 1000 and 1500 meters and bronze over 500 meters. In 2005 she became world champion in team pursuit together with Daniela Anschütz and Anni Friesinger .

On February 16, 2006 Daniela Anschütz-Thoms, Anni Friesinger, Claudia Pechstein , Lucille Opitz and Sabine Völker won the team pursuit of the XX. Olympic Winter Games 2006 the only speed skating gold for Germany in Turin . Völker was not used in the final against Canada, but contributed a lot to the victory of the German team in the heats.

For winning the gold medal in Turin in 2006, she received the silver bay leaf on April 26, 2006.

On June 2, 2006, she announced the end of her career.

Web links

• Statistics on the speed skating news page
• Photos at DESGphoto

Individual evidence

1. ↑ 12th sports report of the Federal Government of September 3, 2010 to the Bundestag - printed matter VI / 2152 - page 67, .... the handing over of the silver laurel leaf to the medal winners of the Olympic Games and the Paralympics of Turin took place on April 26, 2006. ...