Stephanie Beckert
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nation | Germany | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
birthday | May 30, 1988 | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
place of birth | Erfurt, GDR | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
size | 172 cm | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Weight | 69 kg | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
job | Oberfeldwebel of the Bundeswehr | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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society | Ice sports club Erfurt | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Trainer | Gunda Niemann-Stirnemann | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Pers. Best times | 3: 56.80 min (3000 m) in Calgary 6: 47.03 min (5000 m) in Salt Lake City |
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status | resigned | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
End of career | 2019 | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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last change: March 24, 2012 |
Stephanie Beckert (born May 30, 1988 in Erfurt ) is a former German speed skater and Olympic champion who specializes in long distances .
Career
Beckert's mother Angela was also a speed skater, her father Detlef a handball player . Beckert first got on the ice at the age of two. She first tried figure skating , but switched to speed skating at the age of ten. Her five younger siblings were also temporarily active as speed skaters; her brother Patrick qualified like Stephanie for the Olympic Winter Games in Vancouver. Beckert has been a sports soldier in the Oberhof sports promotion group since October 2006 . She holds the rank of sergeant major .
After seven German junior championship titles, Beckert made his senior debut at the beginning of the 2006/07 season. After places between 14th and 15th place in her first three outings during the first two World Cups of the season in Heerenveen and Berlin , she already achieved sixth place in her fourth race and her first 5000 meter World Cup in Moscow . Beckert had already been the German double champion in the 3000 and 5000 meters.
Beckert continued its development continuously. At the World Cup in Moscow on February 14, 2008, she made it into the top 3 for the first time in a World Cup. In the 5000 m race, she finished third behind Claudia Pechstein and Martina Sáblíková . At the World Cup in Heerenveen she came second and in November 2009 she achieved her first World Cup victory in the same place. In her first participation in the all-around world championship in Hamar in 2009 , she finished twelfth. On the last stretch over 5000 meters she was third. A month later at the 2009 World Individual Distance Championships in Richmond , Stephanie Beckert finished fourth over this distance and finished eighth over 3000 meters.
Beckert won two silver medals at the Olympic Games in Vancouver : on February 14, 2010 over the 3000 meters and ten days later over the 5000 meters; Martina Sáblíková won both races. On February 27, 2010 she became Olympic champion in the team pursuit together with Daniela Anschütz-Thoms , Katrin Mattscherodt and Anni Friesinger-Postma . For her achievements at the Winter Games she received the Silver Laurel Leaf.
She also delivered good results at the 2011 individual distance championships . After a bronze medal over 3000 m, she won silver over 5000 m and again bronze with Isabell Ost and Claudia Pechstein in the team pursuit.
statistics
World Cup victories
- Single race
No. | date | place | discipline |
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1. | Nov 13, 2009 | Heerenveen | 3000 m |
2. | Dec. 4, 2009 | Calgary | 3000 m |
3. | Nov 13, 2010 | Heerenveen | 3000 m |
4th | Nov 27, 2010 | Hamar | 5000 m |
5. | Nov 16, 2012 | Heerenveen | 3000 m |
Speed skating world cup placements
placement | 100 m | 500 m | 1000 m | 1500 m | 3000 m | 5000 m | 10,000 m | team |
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1st place | 4th | 1 | 1 | |||||
2nd place | 1 | 2 | 1 | |||||
3rd place | 3 | 1 | 2 | |||||
Top 10 | 17th | 8th | 9 |
(As of June 30, 2010)
Web links
- Stephanie Beckert in the database of Sports-Reference (English; archived from the original )
- Statistics on the speed skating news page
- Photos by Stephanie Beckert
Individual evidence
- ↑ Andreas Morbach: Speed skater Beckert - Coole Kufenlady . Spiegel Online . February 15, 2010. Retrieved June 30, 2010.
- ^ Rainer Grünberg: Second place and second silver for Stephanie Beckert ( English ) Hamburger Abendblatt . February 25, 2010. Retrieved June 30, 2010.
- ↑ Sports report of the Federal Government of September 3, 2010 to the Bundestag - Printed matter VI / 2152 - page 67 ... The medal winners of the Olympic Games and the Paralypics of Turin were awarded the Silver Laurel Leaf on April 26, 2006 ...
personal data | |
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SURNAME | Beckert, Stephanie |
BRIEF DESCRIPTION | German speed skater |
DATE OF BIRTH | May 30, 1988 |
PLACE OF BIRTH | Erfurt |