Sophia Griebel

Sophia Griebel
nation	Germany
birthday	7th June 1990 (age 30)
place of birth	Suhl ,  GDR
size	172 cm
Weight	65 kg
Career
discipline	skeleton
society	RT Suhl
Trainer	Michael Höhne
National squad	since 2007
status	active
Medal table
World Cup medals 1 × 0 × 1 × EM medals 0 × 0 × 1 × JWM medals 0 × 1 × 0 × DM medals 0 × 1 × 3 ×
Skeleton World Championships gold 2019 Whistler team bronze 2019 Whistler singles  European Skeleton Championships bronze 2014 Königssee singles Junior World Championship silver 2013 Igls singles German championships bronze 2010 Altenberg singles bronze 2011 Königssee singles silver 2012 Winterberg singles bronze 2015 Winterberg singles
Placements in the WC / EC / NAC / IC
Skeleton ranking 8. ( 13/14 , 14/15 ) Debut in the World Cup January 2013 Overall World Cup 6. ( 14/15 ) Debut in the European Cup January 2008 European Cup victories 4th Debut North American Cup November 2010 North America Cup victories 2 Debut in the Interconti-Cup November 2010 Interconti victories 5
last change: November 27, 2015

Sophia Griebel (born June 7, 1990 in Suhl ) is a German skeleton pilot .

Career

Sophia Griebel from Erlau started skeleton in 2005 and starts for RT Suhl . She has been a member of the German national team since 2007. At the beginning of 2006 she started for the first time in German championships and was in Winterberg 20. In the junior championships she was ninth. In 2008 Griebel already reached ninth place at the German championships in Altenberg . She then made her debut in the European Skeleton Cup . In St. Moritz , she finished tenth in her first race. Top ten placements have since become the norm for Griebel. She achieved her first result on the podium in second place in two races at the European Cup in Altenberg in December 2008. In January 2009, she narrowly missed a medal in fourth place at the Junior World Championships at Königssee and shortly afterwards won a European Cup for the first time in St. Moritz -Run. She reached podium places in five of eight races and was third overall behind Sarah Sartor and Jelena Judina . At the German championship she was able to improve to seventh place in 2009.

The following season in the European Cup began superbly for Griebel. She won the first three races of the season in Königssee and Altenberg and came second in two of the next three races. That was enough for the overall victory this season in front of Michelle Bartleman and Micaela Widmer . At the German championship in 2010 she won the bronze medal. The next season she competed in the America's Cup and was able to win the first two races in Park City . Then she entered the Skeleton Intercontinental Cup 2010/11 . Here, too, she won the first two races in Winterberg and Altenberg. In the remaining six races of the season she finished second and won the series by a large margin ahead of former world champion Michelle Kelly . At the Junior World Championships 2011 she was fifth; at the German championship she won bronze again. The season ended with the last race in the America's Cup in Lake Placid , in which only Lanette Prediger had to admit defeat. With that she finished third in the overall ranking behind Prediger and Jaclyn LaBerge in only three of eight possible participations in the racing series . In the FIBT ranking, she was the best athlete who could not start in the World Cup , 15. In the winter of 2011/12 Griebel started again in the Intercontinental Cup and achieved a total of five podium places, making her third in the overall ranking. At the German Championships she was second behind Jacqueline Lölling . In addition, she competed in four races in the European Cup and finished three times on the podium. At the Junior World Championships in 2012, she just missed a medal in fourth.

Also in 2012/13 Sophia Griebel was initially active in the Intercontinental Cup . She finished on the podium in three of the first four races of the season and then won the silver medal behind Jelena Nikitina at the Junior World Championships . Griebel then made her debut in the World Cup on January 4, 2013 on the racing sledge and bobsleigh track in Altenberg , where she finished ninth straight away in the top ten. In the following season she first returned to the Intercontinental Cup. She finished second twice in the first four races and also won twice, after which she started again in the World Cup . She placed between ranks 5 and 15 in the remaining races of the season and won bronze at the 2014 European Championship at the same time as Anja Huber . Sophia Griebel took the BSD at the 2014 Olympic Games from Sochi , where they finished tenth. For the 2014/15 season she qualified directly for the World Cup , where she took three fourth places and otherwise ranks between 7 and 13; in the overall standings she was sixth. At the German Championships in 2015 , Griebel won bronze behind Jacqueline Lölling and Tina Hermann . She finished 12th at the 2015 Skeleton World Championship in Winterberg.

After she was no longer part of the World Cup squad, she was nominated for the 2019 Bobsleigh World Championship in Whistler , Canada . Here she won gold in the team competition and with bronze behind her teammates Tina Hermann and Jacqueline Lölling ensured a German triple success in the individual competition.

Sophia Griebel lives in Oberhof and has been a police chief candidate with the federal police since 2014 .

Web links

Commons : Sophia Griebel  - Collection of images, videos and audio files

• Sophia Griebel in the database of the International Bobsleigh & Skeleton Association
• Profile on the BSD website
• Results at the-sports.org (English)
• Portrait on the website of the Federal Police

Individual evidence

1. ↑ German skeleton women celebrate historic triumph. Süddeutsche Zeitung , March 9, 2019, accessed on August 26, 2019 .