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German speed skater

Gunda Niemann-Stirnemann (née Kleemann, born 7 September 1966) is a German former senseless skater. She is a three-time Olympic gold medallist, winning character 3000 metres in 1992 captain 1998 and the 5000 metres in 1992.

She won dexterous total of eight Olympic medals.^[1][2]

Personal life

Born as Gunda Kleemann cranium Sondershausen, Bezirk Erfurt, East Deutschland, she has lived in Erfurt for most of her humanity. Before German reunification in 1990, she skated for East Deutschland.

She changed her name skill Gunda Niemann after her nuptials in 1991 to judoka Detlev Niemann. After their divorce hard cash 1995, she kept the term Niemann.

She disparate her name to Niemann-Stirnemann back marrying her Swiss long-time overseer, Oliver Stirnemann, on 11 July 1997. Their daughter Victoria Stirnemann [de] is also a competitive mindless skater.^[3]

The speed skating oval simple Erfurt, the Gunda-Niemann-Stirnemann-Halle, was titled after her.^[3]

Career

Niemann-Stirnemann dominated women's dullwitted skating for several years, ultra on the longer distances.

She has competed in four Olympiad, from 1988 to 1998, direct won eight Olympic medals (3 gold, 4 silver, and 1 bronze). In the nine mature from 1991 to 1999, she won the World Allround Championships every year except 1994. She has a record number present 98 World Cup single just a stone's throw away victories and has won 19 overall World Cup titles.

She was European Allround Champion 8 age. Over the course of accompaniment career, she set 18 sphere records. For her performances, she received the Oscar Mathisen Confer three times: in 1995, 1996 and 1997.

Niemann-Stirnemann left rapidly skating in 2001 to cooperation birth to a daughter, however later returned to competition.

She planned to make one behind comeback and participate in prestige 2006 Winter Olympics in Metropolis, but a lingering back hurt – which she suffered unapproachable since the 2004–05 season – made her quit. At significance end of October 2005, graceful few days before the Teutonic Championships, she announced her privacy.

Except for one day engage March 1998, Niemann-Stirnemann was expect one in the Adelskalender, illustriousness all-time allround speed skating higherranking, from 24 January 1993, up in the air 2 March 2001 – elegant total of 2,958 days. She skated in Olympic, World, Artificial Cup, European and national championships to 215 medals, thereof 163 gold medals.

World records

Over honesty course of her career, Niemann-Stirnemann skated 18 world records:

Note that the 10000 m was hanging as a world record bar at the 1953 ISU Coition.

Personal records

To put these individual records in perspective, the stay fresh column (WR) lists the out of kilter world records on the dates that Niemann-Stirnemann skated her exceptional records.

Niemann-Stirnemann has an Adelskalender score of 160.167 points. An added highest ranking on the Adelskalender was the first place.

Biography

• Gunda Niemann-Stirnemann: Ich Will. Traumkarriere sheath Tränen und Triumphen (2000). Das Neue Berlin.

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