Susi Erdmann

Susi Erdmann
Full name	Susi-Lisa Erdmann
nation	Germany
birthday	January 29, 1968
place of birth	Blankenburg ,  GDR
size	187 cm
Weight	80 kg
job	Sports soldier
Career
discipline	Bobsleigh luge
society	WSV Königssee
status	resigned
End of career	1999 (luge) 2007 (bobsleigh)
Medal table
Olympic medals 0 × 1 × 2 × World Cup medals 7 × 3 × 1 × EM medals 0 × 0 × 1 ×
Participants in luge  winter Olympics bronze 1992 Albertville singles silver 1994 Lillehammer singles  Luge World Championships gold 1989 Winterberg singles silver 1989 Winterberg team gold 1991 Winterberg singles gold 1993 Calgary team gold 1995 Lillehammer team silver 1995 Lillehammer Sledding silver 1996 Altenberg singles gold 1997 Igls singles  European Luge Championships gold 1992 Winterberg singles gold 1992 team gold 1996 Sigulda team bronze 1998 Oberhof singles gold 1998 Oberhof team  Junior Luge World Championships silver 1986 singles  European Junior Luge Championships bronze 1985 singles silver 1987 singles Participant in bobsleigh  winter Olympics bronze 2002 Salt Lake City two  Bobsleigh and Skeleton World Championships bronze 2001 St. Moritz two gold 2003 Lake Placid two gold 2004 Königssee two  European bobsleigh championships bronze European Championship 2006 two
Placements in the Bobsleigh World Cup Overall World Cup two-man bobsleigh 1. ( 2001/02 )
Placements in the Luge World Cup Overall World Cup singles 1. ( 1990/91 , 1991/92 )

Susi-Lisa Erdmann (born January 29, 1968 in Blankenburg , Wernigerode district ) is a German former luge and bobsleigh pilot .

Career

Susi Erdmann started tobogganing at the age of nine in 1977 and in 1981 switched to the children's and youth sports school , today's Oberhof sports high school , which she graduated from high school in 1987 . In 1988 she became a sports soldier with the NVA and began a distance learning course in library sciences at the University of Leipzig . After her release from the NVA in 1990, with the rank of sergeant major , she worked as a civilian employee in the Bundeswehr until 1992 , as the Bundeswehr has not yet employed any female soldiers. This changed in 1992, she became a medical soldier and was accepted into the sports promotion group of the Bundeswehr in Berchtesgaden . In 1997 she was accepted into the Bundeswehr as the first professional sports soldier . On November 5, 2007, she announced her retirement from active sports. She was employed as a career advisory sergeant with the rank of sergeant at the Bundeswehr career center in Munich and is now active as a sports sergeant at the Bundeswehr Medical Academy. She is an ambassador for kids to life .

successes

Sledding

In 1989 she sensationally won the world championship in tobogganing when she first participated in the World Cup in Winterberg ( starting for the GDR ). Overall, she was three-time individual world champion (1989, 1991 and 1997), four-time European champion (1990, 1992, 1996 and 1998) and two-time overall World Cup winner (1991, 1992). With the team she won the world title four times (1990, 1992, 1993 and 1995). At the Olympic Games she won the bronze medal in Albertville in 1992 and the silver medal in Lillehammer in 1994 .

World Cup victories

Single seater

No.	date	place	train
1.	0Jan. 9, 1988	Altenberg	Altenberg racing sled and bobsled run
2.	Jan. 19, 1991	Winterberg	Winterberg bobsleigh run
3.	0Feb 8, 1991	St. Moritz	Olympia Bobrun St. Moritz – Celerina
4th	Nov 16, 1991	Altenberg	Altenberg racing sled and bobsled run

Bobsleigh

When the individual successes failed to materialize after her third World Cup title, she switched to the two-man bobsleigh in 2000. In 2001 she won the German championship title straight away and was third in both the World Cup and the overall World Cup. In 2002 she won the Olympic bronze medal and the overall World Cup in Salt Lake City .

For winning the bronze medal in 2002 she received the silver laurel leaf on May 6, 2002.

In 2003 she became world champion. With the title defense in 2004 she won her fifth world title overall.

World Cup victories

Two-man bobsleigh women

No.	date	place	train
1.	Nov 19, 2001	Koenigssee	Combined artificial ice rink at Königssee
2.	Dec 15, 2001	Calgary	Bobsleigh and sled run in Canada Olympic Park
3.	Dec 16, 2001	Calgary	Bobsleigh and sled run in Canada Olympic Park
4th	Jan. 18, 2003	Innsbruck-Igls	Igls artificial ice rink bobsleigh
5.	Jan. 19, 2003	Innsbruck-Igls	Igls artificial ice rink bobsleigh
6th	0Dec 7, 2003	Lake Placid	Olympic bobsleigh track Lake Placid
7th	0Jan. 9, 2006	Koenigssee	Koenigssee artificial ice rink

Fun sport

On March 11, 2006, she was awarded the Fisherman's Friend-team wok -Weltmeisterin in the four-man wok. In 2008 she was able to repeat this success with the Frosta team.

Others

In 2004 Susi Erdmann had photos taken of herself for Playboy (February 2004 edition), and she distributed the fee to her team. In 1998 she married her boyfriend at the time, in 2009 she married Gerhard Plankensteiner , from whom she separated again in 2010.

Web links

• Official website
• Susi Erdmann in the database of the International Bobsleigh & Skeleton Association
• Susi Erdmann in the database of Sports-Reference (English; archived from the original )

Individual evidence

1. ↑ Toni Dahmen: Healthy work: top athlete gives the go-ahead in Cologne , Luftwaffe, July 1, 2015.
2. ↑ Press release of the Office of the Federal President of May 6, 2002 on the occasion of the award of the Silver Laurel Leaf to the medal winners of the 2002 Winter Olympics .... www.bundespräsident.deDer Bundespräsident / Speeches / Greetings
3. ↑ https://www.berliner-kurier.de/erdmann-verheierter-17745936
4. ↑ Erdmann & Plankensteiner send greetings as a married couple. In: Chinese Olympic Committee. August 28, 2009, accessed December 1, 2015 . 
5. ↑ http://www.superillu.de/wie- gehts-susi- erdmann