Ulrike Holzner
Ulrike Holzner | |||||||||||||
nation | Germany | ||||||||||||
birthday | 18th September 1968 | ||||||||||||
place of birth | Mainz, Germany | ||||||||||||
size | 1.81 cm | ||||||||||||
Weight | 68 kg kg | ||||||||||||
job | Teaching position | ||||||||||||
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discipline | two | ||||||||||||
position | Brakeman | ||||||||||||
society | USC Mainz | ||||||||||||
Trainer | Thomas Kohlbacher, Wolfgang Hoppe | ||||||||||||
National squad | since A-squad | ||||||||||||
status | not active | ||||||||||||
End of career | 2004 | ||||||||||||
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Ulrike Holzner (born September 18, 1968 in Mainz ) is a former German athlete who was initially active in athletics at USC Mainz ( long jump and heptathlon ) and then in the two-man bobsleigh .
Career
successes
athletics
- German indoor champion with the 4 × 200 m relay in 1999.
- German champion with the heptathlon team in 2000.
Two-man bobsleigh
Athletics from USC Mainz switched to bobsleigh in 1999. In January 2000, the multiple German champion started together with her pilot Katrin Dosthaler at the German Championships at Königssee, where she finished second in the first race of her bobsleigh career. The nomination for the German national team for the 2000/01 World Cup season followed. After two ninth places in the Overseas World Cup in Calgary, she switched to the Prokoff bobsleigh team. Together with Sandra Prokoff, Ulrike Holzner won the first World Cup for Germany on the Olympic track in Salt Lake City. In the 2001/02 World Cup season, the Prokoff / Holzner bobsleigh team won all World Cup races. Together with her pilot Sandra Prokoff , she won the silver medal in the two-man bobsleigh at the 2002 Winter Olympics in Salt Lake City . For this, both were awarded the silver bay leaf on May 6, 2002 .
Together with Sandra Prokoff, she also took part in the following bobsleigh competitions:
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Bobsleigh World Cup 2002/03
- 1st place at the World Cup in Calgary (Canada) on November 23, 2002
- 1st place at the 2nd World Cup in Calgary (Canada) on November 24, 2002
- 1st place at the 4th World Cup in Park City (USA) on December 1st, 2002
- 1st place at the 5th World Cup in Lake Placid (USA) on December 14, 2002
- 2nd place at the 8th World Cup in Igls (Austria) on January 19, 2003
- Silver medal at the 2003 Bobsleigh World Championship
World Cup victories
Two-man bobsleigh women
No. | date | place | train |
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1. | Nov 10, 2001 | Winterberg | Winterberg bobsleigh run 1 |
2. | Nov 11, 2001 | Winterberg | Winterberg bobsleigh run 1 |
4th | Nov 22, 2001 | Innsbruck-Igls | Artificial ice rink bobsleigh Igls 1 |
5. | Nov 24, 2002 | Calgary | Bobsleigh and sled run in Canada Olympic Park 1 |
6th | Dec. 1, 2002 | Park City | Park City 1 bobsleigh run |
7th | Dec 14, 2002 | Lake Placid | Olympic bobsleigh run Lake Placid 1 |
Awards
See also
Web links
- Ulrike Holzner in the database of the International Bobsleigh & Skeleton Association
- Ulrike Holzner in the Sports-Reference database (English; archived from the original )
- ZDF press release: ZDF colleague reaches for Olympic gold - Ulrike Holzner in Sandra Prokoff's bobsleigh team on February 18, 2002
- Uli Holzner, the fearless one
- "Silber-Ulrike" was worth gold for everyone ( Memento from January 8, 2014 in the Internet Archive )
- Bobsleigh two-woman Olympic medalists since 2002
- Bobsleigh two-woman world championship medalists since 2000 ( Memento from July 9, 2011 in the Internet Archive )
Individual evidence
- ↑ Press release of the Federal President's Office of 6 May 2002 on the occasion of the award dog of the Silver Laurel Leaf to the medal winners of the 2002 Winter Olympics In: bundespraesident.de: Der Bundespräsident / Speeches / Greetings
personal data | |
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SURNAME | Holzner, Ulrike |
BRIEF DESCRIPTION | German bobsledder |
DATE OF BIRTH | 18th September 1968 |
PLACE OF BIRTH | Mainz , Germany |