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Biography |
Claudia Pechstein (born 22 February 1972 in East Berlin) is
a German speed skater. With a total of five Olympic gold
medals, two silver, and two bronze medals, she is the most
successful German Winter Olympian of all time. Pechstein is
the first female Winter Olympian to win medals in five
consecutive Olympics (1992–2006), and she won the gold medal
in the women's 5,000 meter race in three consecutive
Olympics (1994–2002), and the silver medal in the fourth
(2006). In the 2006 Winter Olympics in Turin, Italy,
Pechstein also won a gold medal in the women's team pursuit.
Claudia Pechstein held a world record on the 5,000 m track
with the time 6:46.91 achieved on the Utah Olympic Oval in
Salt Lake City on 23 February 2002, which was beaten by
Martina Sáblíková on the same oval five years later.
Pechstein is a sergeant in the German Federal Police and
trains at the force's sports training centre at Bad Endorf. |
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since July 15, 2008