Claudia Pechstein



Claudia Pechstein ( East Berlin , February 221972 ) is a Germanlong track speed skater and the most successful German skater at the Olympic Winter Games ever. Pechstein specializes in long distances (3000 and 5000).

Pechstein was born in East Berlin in the former GDR . For sixteen years she was the pupil of Joachim Franke, the coach that she already booked her Olympic success. After the 2006/07 season came to an end this cooperation and they went to Peter Mueller train the national selection of Norwegian trained skaters. In competitions, she is assisted by a German coach at the rink.

Pechstein has been employed by the German Federal Police, the Federal Police .



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[ hide ]  *1 Championships  ==Championships [ edit] == Claudia Pechstein in 2004The initial success of Pechstein was in 1986 when they were in the JWdF match Sanjon as a 14-year-old won the 3,000 meters in 4.52,00. At the time, she was trained by former world champion Ruth Budzisch-Schleiermacher . ===Junior World Championships [ edit] === Her first international success was a second place at the World Championships for juniors in 1988. In the following two years, 1989 and 1990, she was fourth in the championship. ===Olympics [ Edit] === Pechstein won five consecutive Olympic Games (1992-2006) a medal in the 5000 meters (or bronze, 3x gold and silver). She is the second athlete in the winter games that managed to win five medals in one discipline, her compatriot Georg Hackl had preceded it in this task tobogganing. On the play of Turin in 2006 she won her fifth gold medal, the team pursuit, before she won a 3000m (2002) and three in the 5000m (1994, 1998 and 2002). ===World Allround [ edit] === Pechstein took a record seventeen times in the World Allround Championships Tournament, equaling the performance of the Austrian Emese Hunyady . From 1996 to 2006 she was eleven consecutive years on the podium at World Allround (1-8-2) and thus she is the only woman who has reached Gunda Niemann (10x) and Stien Kaiser (8x) came closest in this achievement.They won 28 medals at the World Allround distance (5-16-7), sixth in the 1500m, 3000m and 5000m on 11.
 * 1.1 Junior World Championships
 * 1.2 Olympics
 * 1.3 World Allround
 * 1.4 European Allround
 * 1.5 World Distances
 * 1.6 World
 * 1.7 NK Allround and Distances
 * 2 Doping
 * 2.1 Comeback
 * 3 Overviews
 * 3.1 Personal records
 * 3.2 World Records
 * 3.3 Adelskalender
 * 3.4 Key Results
 * 3.5 Medal Table
 * 4 Photos
 * 5 See also
 * 6 External link
 * 7 Sources
 * 8 References

For the 2008 World Allround Championships in her hometown of Berlin, she asked her former coach Franke to assume the role of coach once they are hoping him to conquer her desired success to accomplish. the world in their own city The result, the seventh, was a great disappointment to her. Her seventeenth World Allround could not complete because of an injury she came on the second day did not start. ===European Allround [ edit] === At the European Championships Allround took from them in 1992, seventeen times part, only in 1994 it was missing at this tournament. The European Championships in 1998 , 2006 and 2009shut them off as European champion. She was second five times (1999, 2001, 2002, 2003, 2004) and third twice (1996, 2005).

<p style="margin-top:0.4em;margin-bottom:0.5em;line-height:19.200000762939453px;color:rgb(0,0,0);font-family:sans-serif;font-size:13px;">In 2009, she was 324 days old, the oldest winner of a European championship. 36 years and ===World Distances <span class="mw-editsection" style="-webkit-user-select:none;font-size:small;margin-left:1em;line-height:1em;display:inline-block;white-space:nowrap;padding-right:0.25em;unicode-bidi:-webkit-isolate;">[ edit] === <p style="line-height:19.200000762939453px;color:rgb(0,0,0);font-family:sans-serif;font-size:13px;">Since the introduction of this tournament she took on after 2009, each edition part in the 3000 and 5000 meters. At 1500 meters they took part five times. She won 21 individual medals here (5-12-4) in the 1500 meters three (1-1-1), the 3000 meter eight (2-5-1) and the 5000 meters ten (2-6 - 2). In 2007 and 2008 she won the team pursuit Both times the bronze medal. On March 16, 2003 after she won the 2002 Olympics gold in the 5000 meters in her own hometown. ===World Cup <span class="mw-editsection" style="-webkit-user-select:none;font-size:small;margin-left:1em;line-height:1em;display:inline-block;white-space:nowrap;padding-right:0.25em;unicode-bidi:-webkit-isolate;">[ Edit] === <p style="line-height:19.200000762939453px;color:rgb(0,0,0);font-family:sans-serif;font-size:13px;">In the World Cup cycle, they won 21 games (1500 5x, 12x and 4x 3000 5000 meters). In 2002/03, 2003/04 and 2004/05, she was first in the final standings of the 3000/5000 meters. At the same distance she was eight times second and once third in the standings. At the 1500 meters she was five times second and once third in the standings.

<p style="margin-top:0.4em;margin-bottom:0.5em;line-height:19.200000762939453px;color:rgb(0,0,0);font-family:sans-serif;font-size:13px;">On November 22, 2008 she won in Moscow during the third World Cup race of the 5000 meters. With her ​​36 years and 274 days, she became the oldest winner of a World Cup race. Four years later, on November 25, 2012, she won inKolomna during the second World Cup event, the 3,000 meters with her ​​40 years and 277 days <span class="reference" id="cite_ref-1" style="vertical-align:text-top;position:relative;font-size:0.8em;top:-5px;unicode-bidi:-webkit-isolate;">[1]  . This she sharpened her own record further and are in the list of ten oldest World Cup victories eight victories in the name of Pechstein including the entire top six. ===NK Allround and Distances <span class="mw-editsection" style="-webkit-user-select:none;font-size:small;margin-left:1em;line-height:1em;display:inline-block;white-space:nowrap;padding-right:0.25em;unicode-bidi:-webkit-isolate;">[ edit] === <p style="line-height:19.200000762939453px;color:rgb(0,0,0);font-family:sans-serif;font-size:13px;">She was thirteen times national champion. Seven times she was German allround champion (1996, 2000, 2002, 2004, 2006, 2009 and 2013) and five times they finished second. She was seven times champion distance (2x to 5x 1500 and 3000 meters) and won two silver medals in the 1000 meters, one silver in the 3000 meters and two bronze in the 1500 meters. In the last weekend of July 2012 led after the first day of the Sommer-Premiere Jenny Wolf and Pechstein in a field of eight ladies. Pechstein scored in the 500m and 40.80 miles in 4.09,95 <span class="reference" id="cite_ref-2" style="vertical-align:text-top;position:relative;font-size:0.8em;top:-5px;unicode-bidi:-webkit-isolate;">[2]  . With this she got on her 40th her ​​seventh-round title <span class="reference" id="cite_ref-3" style="vertical-align:text-top;position:relative;font-size:0.8em;top:-5px;unicode-bidi:-webkit-isolate;">[3]  . One year later, in 2013, she was an all-round champion, her eighth title <span class="reference" id="cite_ref-4" style="vertical-align:text-top;position:relative;font-size:0.8em;top:-5px;unicode-bidi:-webkit-isolate;">[4]  . ==Doping <span class="mw-editsection" style="-webkit-user-select:none;font-size:small;margin-left:1em;line-height:1em;display:inline-block;white-space:nowrap;padding-right:0.25em;unicode-bidi:-webkit-isolate;">[ edit] == <p style="line-height:19.200000762939453px;color:rgb(0,0,0);font-family:sans-serif;font-size:13px;">The disciplinary committee of the International Skating Union ISU made ​​on July 3, 2009 known to have caught on Pechstein blood doping following an inspection in early February 2009 during the World Cup round in Hamar. On the second day of this tournament Pechstein reported themselves. The penalty, suspended for two years, by February 9, 2009 - resulted from a series of studies, which was affected by abnormal blood values ​​and abnormal changes in blood levels. The doping case is on appeal assessed by the sports tribunal CAS in Lausanne .

<p style="margin-top:0.4em;margin-bottom:0.5em;line-height:19.200000762939453px;color:rgb(0,0,0);font-family:sans-serif;font-size:13px;">Pechstein claimed on November 3, 2009 to the departure of the head of the Medical Commission of the IOCHarm Kuipers because besides a skater Pechstein was suspected of abnormal blood values ​​but that person unlike Pechstein a medical certificate was given <span class="reference" id="cite_ref-5" style="vertical-align:text-top;position:relative;font-size:0.8em;top:-5px;unicode-bidi:-webkit-isolate;">[5]  . This requirement was not met; Kuipers remained in office.

<p style="margin-top:0.4em;margin-bottom:0.5em;line-height:19.200000762939453px;color:rgb(0,0,0);font-family:sans-serif;font-size:13px;">The CAS confirmed on November 25 the judgment of the ISU causing the suspension of Pechstein maintained and they would miss the Olympics. On November 29, Pechstein announced to fight with the Swiss civil courts. To this decision <span class="reference" id="cite_ref-6" style="vertical-align:text-top;position:relative;font-size:0.8em;top:-5px;unicode-bidi:-webkit-isolate;">[6]  who determined that the suspension should be lifted and Pechstein was allowed to start during the World Cup in Salt Lake City<span class="reference" id="cite_ref-7" style="vertical-align:text-top;position:relative;font-size:0.8em;top:-5px;unicode-bidi:-webkit-isolate;">[7]  . Pechstein started at 3000 meters via a wildcard and finished 13th. A place in the top eight was needed to meet the German qualification requirement for the Winter Games <span class="reference" id="cite_ref-8" style="vertical-align:text-top;position:relative;font-size:0.8em;top:-5px;unicode-bidi:-webkit-isolate;">[8]  .

<p style="margin-top:0.4em;margin-bottom:0.5em;line-height:19.200000762939453px;color:rgb(0,0,0);font-family:sans-serif;font-size:13px;">On March 15, 2010 physicians from the German Association of hematologists and oncologists (DGHO) stated that Claudia Pechstein mild spherocytosis has. She would have inherited the disease from her father. In spherocytosis mature red blood cells are prematurely destroyed by the spleen, bone marrow, making it more reticulocytes are creating. The doctors are not doping but this disease the reason Pechstein repeatedly exceeded. Permissible value of 2.4% of reticulocytes <span class="reference" id="cite_ref-9" style="vertical-align:text-top;position:relative;font-size:0.8em;top:-5px;unicode-bidi:-webkit-isolate;">[9]

<p style="margin-top:0.4em;margin-bottom:0.5em;line-height:19.200000762939453px;color:rgb(0,0,0);font-family:sans-serif;font-size:13px;">On 1 October 2010 the Supreme Court in Switzerland profession Pechstein against her suspension rejected. Her lawyers have announced to the European Court of Human Rights in Strasbourg to step <span class="reference" id="cite_ref-10" style="vertical-align:text-top;position:relative;font-size:0.8em;top:-5px;unicode-bidi:-webkit-isolate;">[10]  . In Die Welt Pechstein claimed to have received from ISU Vice-President apologize Jan Dijkema, but he denied this in turn in The Telegraph <span class="reference" id="cite_ref-11" style="vertical-align:text-top;position:relative;font-size:0.8em;top:-5px;unicode-bidi:-webkit-isolate;">[11]  . On September 25, 2013 the trial should ISU and the German Skating Federation DESG rehabilitation which Thomas Summerer claiming damages of 3.5 million euros due to financial loss and four hundred thousand euros due to damage to its reputation. Have signed a declaration, including more than 100 fellow skaters Shani Davis , Ivan Skobrev andJenny Wolf<span class="reference" id="cite_ref-12" style="vertical-align:text-top;position:relative;font-size:0.8em;top:-5px;unicode-bidi:-webkit-isolate;">[12]  . The court in Munich has DESG ISU and asked to come to a financial settlement and the matter has been suspended until January 29, 2014. Additionally Pechstein did aangite on October 14, 2013 at the doping authorities WADA, the German and the German doping agency NADA skating association DESG and ISU because abnormal blood values. The ISU announced on October 21, 2013, in turn, managed to maintain the position that from 2009 to 2011 there had been a prohibited substance and not by an inherited abnormality in the period, a mild anomaly which her ​​father dies <span class="reference" id="cite_ref-13" style="vertical-align:text-top;position:relative;font-size:0.8em;top:-5px;unicode-bidi:-webkit-isolate;">[13]  .

<p style="margin-top:0.4em;margin-bottom:0.5em;line-height:19.200000762939453px;color:rgb(0,0,0);font-family:sans-serif;font-size:13px;">At the national championships by distance Inzell made ​​Detlef Beckert, the father of her competitor Stefanie Beckert , insinuations about alleged doping when Pechstein won gold in the 5000 meters: Rather than an honest third unfairly first . Pechstein decided to do this for libel and slander declaration <span class="reference" id="cite_ref-14" style="vertical-align:text-top;position:relative;font-size:0.8em;top:-5px;unicode-bidi:-webkit-isolate;">[14]  . ===Comeback <span class="mw-editsection" style="-webkit-user-select:none;font-size:small;margin-left:1em;line-height:1em;display:inline-block;white-space:nowrap;padding-right:0.25em;unicode-bidi:-webkit-isolate;">[ edit] === <p style="line-height:19.200000762939453px;color:rgb(0,0,0);font-family:sans-serif;font-size:13px;">On January 14, 2011 Pechstein stated objective to have to start in our own country home crowd during the World distances . Therefore, they should limit as 4:15 ride the 3 miles where they in Salt Lake City can start for real World Cup qualifiers <span class="reference" id="cite_ref-15" style="vertical-align:text-top;position:relative;font-size:0.8em;top:-5px;unicode-bidi:-webkit-isolate;">[15]  . With 4.10,05 they largely corresponded to those requirements and they should start on 18 February <span class="reference" id="cite_ref-16" style="vertical-align:text-top;position:relative;font-size:0.8em;top:-5px;unicode-bidi:-webkit-isolate;">[16]  . Pechstein started in the B group and drove to a time of 6.51,62 the quickest time of the B group and was the third fastest time of the day. She placed himself thus for the World Cup distances. There she won the 5 kilometer a bronze medal.

<p style="margin-top:0.4em;margin-bottom:0.5em;line-height:19.200000762939453px;color:rgb(0,0,0);font-family:sans-serif;font-size:13px;">In 2011, a German news agency announced that Pechstein considering about to temporarily switch to the track cycling and to qualify for the 2012 Olympics in London . <span class="reference" id="cite_ref-17" style="vertical-align:text-top;position:relative;font-size:0.8em;top:-5px;unicode-bidi:-webkit-isolate;">[17]

<p style="margin-top:0.4em;margin-bottom:0.5em;line-height:19.200000762939453px;color:rgb(0,0,0);font-family:sans-serif;font-size:13px;">On July 25th 2013 the management of Pechstein announced its own team to go under the Olympic season Mission Sochi 2014 . ==Overviews <span class="mw-editsection" style="-webkit-user-select:none;font-size:small;margin-left:1em;line-height:1em;display:inline-block;white-space:nowrap;padding-right:0.25em;unicode-bidi:-webkit-isolate;">[ edit] == ===Personal records <span class="mw-editsection" style="-webkit-user-select:none;font-size:small;margin-left:1em;line-height:1em;display:inline-block;white-space:nowrap;padding-right:0.25em;unicode-bidi:-webkit-isolate;">[ Edit] === Claudia Pechstein in 2008 <p style="line-height:19.200000762939453px;color:rgb(0,0,0);font-family:sans-serif;font-size:13px;">* = national record ===World Records<span class="mw-editsection" style="-webkit-user-select:none;font-size:small;margin-left:1em;line-height:1em;display:inline-block;white-space:nowrap;padding-right:0.25em;unicode-bidi:-webkit-isolate;">[ Edit] === ===Adelskalender <span class="mw-editsection" style="-webkit-user-select:none;font-size:small;margin-left:1em;line-height:1em;display:inline-block;white-space:nowrap;padding-right:0.25em;unicode-bidi:-webkit-isolate;">[ edit] === <p style="line-height:19.200000762939453px;color:rgb(0,0,0);font-family:sans-serif;font-size:13px;">Pechstein has two short periods at the top of the Adelskalender been: first from March 13 to March 14, 1998 (1 day) and a second time from March 2 to March 9, 2001 (7 days). In total Pechstein 8 days stood at the top of the Adelskalender. Since December 2007 Pechstein takes the third position.

<p style="margin-top:0.4em;margin-bottom:0.5em;line-height:19.200000762939453px;color:rgb(0,0,0);font-family:sans-serif;font-size:13px;">Below are the personal records (PRs) that Pechstein came to 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. ===Important results <span class="mw-editsection" style="-webkit-user-select:none;font-size:small;margin-left:1em;line-height:1em;display:inline-block;white-space:nowrap;padding-right:0.25em;unicode-bidi:-webkit-isolate;">[ edit] ===
 * 1) NS = not started on the remote #
 * 1999: 3000m = shared second place with Tonny de Jong
 * 2010 **: some points achieved, but not included in the final results

===Medal table <span class="mw-editsection" style="-webkit-user-select:none;font-size:small;margin-left:1em;line-height:1em;display:inline-block;white-space:nowrap;padding-right:0.25em;unicode-bidi:-webkit-isolate;">[ edit] ===