Viola Bauer

Viola Bauer
nation	Germany
birthday	13th December 1976 (age 43)
place of birth	Annaberg-Buchholz , Germany
Career
society	SWV Goldlauter
status	resigned
End of career	2007
Medal table
Olympic medals 1 × 1 × 1 × World Cup medals 1 × 1 × 0 ×
winter Olympics gold 2002 Salt Lake City Season bronze 2002 Salt Lake City 10 km pursuit silver 2006 Turin Season  Nordic World Ski Championships gold 2003 Val di Fiemme Season silver 2007 Sapporo Season
Placements in the cross-country skiing world cup
Debut in the World Cup December 27, 1998  Overall World Cup 16. ( 2006/07 )  Sprint World Cup 15. ( 2001/02 )  Distance World Cup 14th ( 2005/06 )  Tour de Ski 10th ( 2006/07 )
Podium placements 1. 2. 3.  Distance races 0 0 1  Season 4th 3 2  Team sprint 2 0 1

Viola Bauer (born December 13, 1976 in Annaberg-Buchholz ) is a former German cross-country skier . She is a qualified social pedagogue and sports soldier in the Bundeswehr .

Viola Bauer was considered an outspoken classical music specialist and won bronze in the relay at the 1999 World Championships , gold in the relay and bronze in the pursuit at the 2002 Winter Olympics and gold in the relay at the 2003 World Championships . At the 2006 Winter Olympics , she finished fifth in the team sprint with Evi Sachsenbacher-Stehle and won silver with the German relay team. She won another silver medal with the relay at the 2007 World Cup in Sapporo .

On March 11, 2007, she celebrated the best World Cup result of her career with third place over 10 km classic in Lahti . She played her last competition on March 25, 2007 in Falun , where she celebrated a victory with the German relay team.

After retiring from competitive sports , she worked as a co-commentator at Eurosport during the Tour de Ski 07/08 and the 2010 Winter Olympics .

Bauer has lived in the home of her Greek husband, the cross-country skier Lefteris Fafalis, since 2007 . In the summer of 2009 she gave birth to her first daughter.

Web links

• Viola Bauer in the database of the International Ski Federation (English)
• Viola Bauer in the Sports-Reference database (English; archived from the original )

Individual evidence

1. ↑ Happy motherhood in Greece: Viola Bauer gives birth to daughter . xc-ski.de. August 19, 2009. Archived from the original on March 8, 2011. Retrieved on August 22, 2009.