Stephanie Beckert

Stephanie Beckert
nation	Germany
birthday	May 30, 1988
place of birth	Erfurt, GDR
size	172 cm
Weight	69 kg
job	Oberfeldwebel of the Bundeswehr
Career
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
status	resigned
End of career	2019
Medal table
Olympic medals 1 × 2 × 0 × World Cup medals 0 × 3 × 2 × National medals 4 × 1 × 1 ×
winter Olympics gold 2010 Vancouver team silver 2010 Vancouver 3000 m silver 2010 Vancouver 5000 m  Individual distance world championships bronze 2011 Inzell 3000 m silver 2011 Inzell 5000 m bronze 2011 Inzell team silver 2012 Heerenveen 3000 m silver 2012 Heerenveen 5000 m
Placements in the speed skating world cup
Debut in the World Cup 2006  World Cup victories 5  Total toilet 1500 44th (2008/09)  Total toilet 3000/5000 2. (2009/10, 2010/11, 2011/12)
Podium placements 1. 2. 3.  3000 meters 4th 1 3  5000 meters 1 2 1  Team competition 1 1 2
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
1.	Nov 13, 2009	Heerenveen	3000 m
2.	0Dec. 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
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

Commons : Stephanie Beckert  - Collection of images, videos and audio files

• 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

1. ↑ Andreas Morbach: Speed ​​skater Beckert - Coole Kufenlady . Spiegel Online . February 15, 2010. Retrieved June 30, 2010.
2. ^ Rainer Grünberg: Second place and second silver for Stephanie Beckert ( English ) Hamburger Abendblatt . February 25, 2010. Retrieved June 30, 2010.
3. ↑ 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 ...