Sonja Wiedemann

Sonja Wiedemann
nation	Germany
birthday	September 8, 1977
place of birth	Munich ,  Germany
Career
discipline	Single seater
status	resigned
End of career	2005
Medal table
Olympic medals 0 × 0 × 0 × EM medals 0 × 1 × 0 × World Cup medals 1 × 0 × 1 ×
Luge World Championships gold Königssee 1999 singles bronze St. Moritz 2000 singles  European Luge Championships silver Winterberg 2000 team
Placements in the Luge World Cup
Debut in the World Cup 1999  World Cup victories 3

Sonja Wiedemann (born September 8, 1977 in Munich ) is a former German luge athlete .

Career

Wiedemann, who started for SG Hausham in 1986, came into the public eye in 1999 when she won the world championships in luge. She could not confirm this success in the following years and repeatedly failed in qualifying for the World Cup and major events to Sylke Otto , Silke Kraushaar , Barbara Niedernhuber , Anke Wischnewski and Tatjana Hüfner .

In 2001 she once again set an exclamation point when, surprisingly, she won the second World Cup run of the 2001/02 World Cup season in Lake Placid in the absence of the supposedly five best German female tobogganists, thus maintaining the German women's winning streak from 1997 to 2010.

2005 ended in Miesbach living Sport soldier of the Bundeswehr her active career.

successes

World Cup victories

singles

No.	date	place	train
1.	Dec 12, 1999	Calgary	Bobsleigh and sled run in Canada Olympic Park
2.	Jan. 14, 2001	innsbruck	Igls artificial ice rink bobsleigh
3.	Nov 25, 2001	Lake Placid	Olympic bobsleigh track Lake Placid

Web links

• Sonja Wiedemann in the database of the International Luge Federation