Karin Enke



Karin Enke ( Dresden , June 20, 1961 ) is a former long track speed skater who on behalf of the eighties GDR achieved great success. She is also known by her married name Karin Busch , Karin Kania and Karin Richter .



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[ hide ]  *1 Skating Career  ==Skating Career [ edit] == Enke began at a young age as a figure skater, and was at the European championships in 1977 even ninth. Her height was a disadvantage in figure skating, and from 1978 she was therefore focus on the long track. With success, two years later, she became both sprint world champion and Olympic champion in the 500 meters.
 * 2 Doping
 * 3 Personal bests
 * 3.1 Adelskalender
 * 4 Results
 * 4.1 Medal Table
 * 5 World Records

She would win a total of eleven world titles, six in the sprint championship and five in the championship round. She took part in the three Winter Olympics ( in 1980,1984and 1988 ). At the 1984 Winter Olympics in Sarajevo, she took four medals: gold in the 1,000 and 1,500 meters and silver in the 500 and 3000 meters. At the Olympic Winter Games of 1988 in Calgary, she hoped some gold medals to add that, but she had to testify in a lake against the Dutch Yvonne van Gennip , who she was second in the 1500 meters. Her last tournament was theWorld Allround Championships in March 1988 . She won three of the four distances and became the first sovereign, Van Gennip and Polish Erwina Ryś-Ferens .

Enke rode during her skating career world records in the 500, 1000, 1500 and 3000 meters. Particularly 1.59,30 in the 1500 meters, which she March 221986 at the miracle job Medeoreed, is legendary. Enke was not only the first woman ducked under two minutes, but it would also record up to 29 November1997 remain almost twelve years.

Enke took eight times in the World Allround Championships. Of this she was afterwards at seven on the podium (equaling the number of Tamara Rylova and only Stien Kaiser (8x), Gunda Niemann (10x) and Claudia Pechstein (11x) about her troefden herein). On winning the championships of '82, '84 and '86 she won the first three distances and thus was champion before the start of the last distance. In total they won the World Allround 23 medals away, 15x gold, silver and 1 bronze 7x. ==Doping [ edit] == On January 3, 2010 Giselher Spitzer unveiled (a German sports historian and researcher at the Berlin Humboldt University) in program history Other times on the basis of Stasi documents that the East German skater Enke was prepared in 1984 with doping [1]  . ==Personal records [ Edit] == ===Adelskalender [ edit] === Enke has three periods at the top of the Adelskalender been: first of December 8, 1983 to January 15, 1984 (38 days), a second time from January 28 to March 23, 1984 (55 days), and a third time on March 21, 1986 to 23 februari 1988 (704 days). In total, 797 days Enke stood at the top of the Adelskalender.

Below are the personal records (PRs) that Enke was at the top of the Adelskalender and PRs that she'd been when she was expelled from the first place. Also, the data displayed by the skaters before and after her were at the top of the list. ==Results [ edit] == Karin Enke (2nd Fri) with Andrea Ehrig , Gabi Zange andSabine Brehm during the World Cup in Berlin, November 22, 1987
 * - = No participation
 * # NC = not qualified for the final distance, but as # classified in the final ranking
 * (#, #, #, #) = Position sprint distance (500m, 1000m, 500m, 1000m) or round tournament (500m, 3000m, 1500m, 5000m).

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