Sylke Otto

Sylke Otto
nation	Germany
birthday	7th July 1969
place of birth	Karl-Marx-Stadt ,  GDR
size	170 cm
Weight	64 kg
job	Sports soldier
Career
discipline	Single seater
National squad	since 1991
status	resigned
End of career	2007
Medal table
Olympic medals 2 × 0 × 0 × EM medals 3 × 2 × 1 × World Cup medals 6 × 2 × 3 ×
winter Olympics gold 2002 Salt Lake City singles gold 2006 Turin singles  Luge World Championships bronze Königssee 1999 singles bronze Königssee 1999 team gold St. Moritz 2000 singles silver St. Moritz 2000 team gold Calgary 2001 singles silver Calgary 2001 team gold Sigulda 2003 singles gold Sigulda 2003 team bronze Nagano 2004 singles gold Park City 2005 singles gold Park City 2005 team  European Luge Championships gold Igls 1990 team silver Winterberg 1992 singles silver Winterberg 1992 team gold Winterberg 2000 singles gold Winterberg 2000 team bronze Oberhof 2004 singles
Placements in the Luge World Cup
Debut in the World Cup 1994  World Cup victories 37  Overall World Cup ES 1. (1994/1995, 1999/2000, 2002/2003, 2003/2004)  Challenge Cup ES 1. (2005/2006)
Podium placements 1. 2. 3.  Single seater 37 0 0  Challenge Cup singles 0 0 0  Team relay 0 0 0
last change: March 9, 2008

Sylke Otto (born July 7, 1969 in Karl-Marx-Stadt ) is a former German luge athlete .

Life

From 1983 she attended the sports school in Oberwiesenthal and was a member of SC Traktor Oberwiesenthal . Between 1989 and 1993 she completed her apprenticeship as a pharmaceutical technical assistant. Since 1996 she has been a temporary soldier with the rank of sergeant in the sports promotion group of the Bundeswehr .

In her career she won 37 world cup races and was five times European and five world champion. She won the overall World Cup four times. The highlights of her career were the gold medals at the 2002 Olympic Games in Salt Lake City and the 2006 Olympic Games in Turin . In the same year she was third in the election for Germany's sportswoman of the year . By winning the gold medal in Turin, Sylke Otto became the most successful toboggan runner to date. In 2003, 2006 and 2007 Otto became German champion.

Sylke Otto started for the WSC Erzgebirge Oberwiesenthal . After her second Olympic victory, she was made an honorary citizen of Oberwiesenthal in June 2006 . She has lived in Zirndorf with her partner since 1994 . On January 12, 2007, she announced the immediate end of her career because of a pregnancy.

In the local elections in Bavaria in 2008 , she was elected to the Zirndorf City Council as a non-party candidate on the list of the SPD .

She has two daughters.

successes

• Olympic games:
  • 2002 : single
  • 2006 : single

• World Championships:
  • 1991 6th place individual
  • 1993 6th place individual
  • 1995 7th place individual
  • 1996 8th place individual
  • 1997 7th place individual
  • 1999 : individual and team
  • 2000 : individual team
  • 2001 : single
  • 2003 : Individual and team relay
  • 2004 : single
  • 2005 : Individual and team relay

• European Championships:
  • 1990 : team
  • 1992 : Individual and team relay
  • 2000 : individual and team
  • 2004 : single

• Overall World Cup:

season	space	Points
1990/91	0?.	0?
1991/92	0?.	0?
1992/93	0?.	0?
1993/94	0?.	0?
1994/95	01.	0?
1995/96	0?.	0?
1996/97	0?.	0?
1997/98	02.	0?
1998/99	02.	0575
1999/2000	01.	0625
2000/01	02.	0661
2001/02	02.	0515
2002/03	01.	0685
2003/04	01.	0755
2004/05	03.	0541
2005/06	02.	0625

• World Cup victories:

Single seater

Team relay

No. date place train 1. Nov 21, 1992  Innsbruck-Igls Igls artificial ice rink bobsleigh 2. Nov. 26, 1994  Innsbruck-Igls Igls artificial ice rink bobsleigh 3. Dec 18, 1994  Calgary Bobsleigh and sled run in Canada Olympic Park 4th Jan. 26, 1995  Koenigssee Combined artificial ice rink at Königssee 5. Feb 11, 1995  Sigulda Sigulda luge and bobsleigh track 6th Feb. 18, 1995  Altenberg Altenberg racing sled and bobsled run 7th Dec 18, 1995  Winterberg Winterberg bobsleigh run 8th. 0Dec 1, 1997  Winterberg Winterberg bobsleigh run 9. Dec 20, 1997  Calgary Bobsleigh and sled run in Canada Olympic Park 10. Jan. 24, 1998  Winterberg Winterberg bobsleigh run 11. Nov 21, 1998  Innsbruck-Igls Igls artificial ice rink bobsleigh 12. Feb 13, 1999  Nagano Bobsleigh track in Asakawa 13. Nov 13, 1999  Lillehammer Hunderfossen bobsleigh and sled run 14th Nov 20, 1999  Sigulda Sigulda luge and bobsleigh track 15th 0Dec 4, 1999  Koenigssee Koenigssee artificial ice rink 16. Jan. 29, 2000  Innsbruck-Igls Igls artificial ice rink bobsleigh 17th 0Dec 3, 2000  Oberhof Oberhof luge track 18th Jan. 20, 2001  Altenberg Altenberg racing sled and bobsled run 19th 0Feb 3, 2001  Nagano Bobsleigh track in Asakawa 20th 0Nov 9, 2001  Calgary Bobsleigh and sled run in Canada Olympic Park 21st Jan. 26, 2002  Winterberg Winterberg bobsleigh run 22nd Dec 23, 2002  Park City Park City bobsleigh 23. Nov 29, 2002  Calgary Bobsleigh and sled run in Canada Olympic Park 24. Dec 14, 2002  Altenberg Altenberg racing sled and bobsled run 25th Jan. 18, 2003  Lillehammer Hunderfossen bobsleigh and sled run 26th Jan 25, 2003  Innsbruck-Igls Igls artificial ice rink bobsleigh 27. 0Feb 9, 2003  Winterberg Winterberg bobsleigh run 28. 0Dec 6, 2003  Calgary Bobsleigh and sled run in Canada Olympic Park 29 Dec 20, 2003  Lake Placid Olympic bobsleigh track Lake Placid 30th Jan. 16, 2004  Winterberg Winterberg bobsleigh run 31. Jan. 24, 2004  Innsbruck-Igls Igls artificial ice rink bobsleigh 32. Jan. 31, 2004  Koenigssee Koenigssee artificial ice rink 33. Jan 15, 2005  Innsbruck-Igls Igls artificial ice rink bobsleigh 34. Jan. 22, 2005  Winterberg Winterberg bobsleigh run 35. Nov 20, 2005  Cesana Cesana Pariol 36. 0Jan. 5, 2006  Koenigssee Koenigssee artificial ice rink 37. Jan. 29, 2006  Oberhof Oberhof luge track

No. date place train 1. Nov 16, 2003  Sigulda Sigulda luge and bobsleigh track 2. Dec 21, 2003  Lake Placid Olympic bobsleigh track Lake Placid 3. Jan. 25, 2004  innsbruck Igls artificial ice rink bobsleigh

German championships
	1992	Bronze in single
	1993	Silver in single
	1995	Silver in single
	1999	Silver in single
	2000	Silver in single
	2002	Silver in single
	2003	Silver in single
	2004	Gold in singles
	2005	Bronze in single
	2006	Gold in singles
	2007	Gold in singles

literature

• Short biography for:  Otto, Silke . In: Who was who in the GDR? 5th edition. Volume 2. Ch. Links, Berlin 2010, ISBN 978-3-86153-561-4 .

Web links

• Sylke Otto's website

Individual evidence

1. ↑ Honorary citizen of the city of Kurort Oberwiesenthal ( Memento from October 7, 2011 in the Internet Archive )
2. ↑ Celebrity in the city council: Olympic champion Sylke Otto elected Nürnberger Nachrichten, March 5, 2008
3. ↑ Interview with Julia Rothhaas, in: Nido 2/2013, p. 91.