Viktoria Doenicke

nation

Germany

birthday

March 6, 1999

place of birth

Merseburg , Germany

size

162 cm

Weight

60 kg

job

Police Chief Candidate

Career

discipline

Two-man bobsleigh

position

Pusher

society

BSC Sachsen Oberbärenburg

National squad

since 2019

status

active

Medal table

DM medals

0 ×

1 ×

0 ×

German bobsleigh championships
silver	Altenberg 2020	Two-man bobsleigh

last change: 2020-02-25

Viktoria Dönicke (born March 6, 1999 in Merseburg ) is a German bobsleigh driver and former athlete . From World Athletics will erroneously as Victoria Dönicke out.

Career

Career as a track and field athlete

Viktoria Dönicke began her athletics career in the Saxon-Anhalt city of Braunsbedra at SV Braunsbedra and later switched to LV 90 Erzgebirge , where she was trained by Jörg Möckel. In 2015 she took part in the European Youth Olympic Festival in the Georgian city of Tbilisi and took fifth place in the 100-meter run . A year later she was allowed to compete again in Tbilisi, namely at the European Under-18 Athletics Championships . She was eliminated in the semi-finals.

She took the DLV at the Athletics U20 World Championships in 2018 in the Finnish city of Tampere in part and was in the 4 x 100-meter relay used. Together with Corinna Schwab , Sophia Junk and Denise Uphoff, they won the gold medal before the seasons from Ireland and Great Britain. The season was later honored as junior team of the year by the German Sports Aid Foundation . After participating in the World Championships, she also took part in the German athletics championships for the first time and did not get past the lead in the 100-meter run on July 21, 2018 in Nuremberg . At the German youth championships in Rostock , she won the bronze medal over the 100 meters in 12.14 seconds.

On January 19, 2019, she set a new personal best at the Saxon indoor championships in Chemnitz in the 60-meter final with 7.36 seconds and took part in the German indoor championships in Leipzig on February 16, 2019 , achieving that over the 60 meters Final. There she took sixth place. On June 1, 2019, she was able to set a new personal best in the 100-meter run at the Sparkasse meeting in Jena with 11.69 seconds . She was nominated by the DLV for the 2019 European Games in Minsk , where she won the bronze medal in the team competition as part of the German team. At the German athletics championships on August 3, 2019 in the Berlin Olympiastadion in the 100-meter run not beyond the semi-finals. In addition, she started at the German police championships in the Jahnstadion in Göttingen and was able to secure the bronze medal in 12.22 seconds.

Career as a bobsledder

For the 2019/20 season Viktoria Dönicke switched from athletics to bobsleigh and left the LV 90 Erzgebirge . She joined the BSC Sachsen Oberbärenburg and has been part of Kim Kalicki's team ever since . Viktoria Dönicke and Kim Kalicki won the bronze medal at the German push championship. Their first competition as a brakewoman she graduated at the German championships, which in the Ore community Altenberg . There, together with Kim Kalicki, she secured the silver medal behind Laura Nolte's bob and in front of Stephanie Schneider's bob .

Viktoria Dönicke completed her first international competition in the 2019/20 European Bobsleigh Cup as Laura Nolte's pusher . In the Veltins ice arena in Winterberg , the two took second place on December 15, 2020 behind Anna Köhler's bobsleigh and in front of Andreea Grecu's bobsleigh . As Kim Kalicki's pusher , she completed her first competition on January 31, 2020 at the Igls bobsleigh rink in Innsbruck . There they secured victory in the European Cup ahead of the Russian bobsleigh by Lyubow Tschernych and the Romanian bobsleigh by Andreea Grecu and thus became junior European champions in the U23 class. In the "normal" rating, in which starters up to 26 years of age are rated, they were not rated. In this ranking the Russians placed behind them won.