Olaf Zinke

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Men’s Speed Skating
Olympic medal record
Gold	1992 Albertville	1,000 m

Olaf Zinke (born 9 October 1966 in Bad Muskau, East Germany) is a former speed skater.

Olaf Zinke specialised in the 1,000 metres and 1,500 metres distances. In 1990, at a World Cup race in Helsinki he proved his skill at top level for the first time, finishing first in the 1,500 metres leaving Johann Olav Koss and Michael Hadschieff behind him, and the next day he won the 1,000 metres by outpacing Dan Jansen and Eric Flaim. He peaked again at the 1992 Winter Olympics in Albertville. Leaving the Korean Yoo-Man Kim behind by 0.01 seconds, Zinke won the 1,000 metres race and thereby the Olympic gold medal.

[edit] Personal records

Distance	Result	Date	Location
500 m	37.74	10 March 1990	Heerenveen
1,000 m	1:14.53	11 March 1990	Heerenveen
1,500 m	1:53.64	5 December 1993	Hamar
3,000 m	4:06.71	18 January 1992	Davos
5,000 m	7:04.23	25 March 1988	Medeo
10,000 m	15:00.6	26 March 1988	Medeo
Big combination	165.219	26 March 1988	Medeo
Small combination	165.248	25 March 1989	Medeo
Sprint combination	151.880	17 March 1990	Inzell

Zinke has an Adelskalender score of 163.073 points.

[edit] References

Olympic champions in men's 1000 m speed skating
1976: Peter Mueller \| 1980: Eric Heiden \| 1984: Gaétan Boucher \| 1988: Nikolay Gulyayev \| 1992: Olaf Zinke \| 1994: Dan Jansen \| 1998: Ids Postma \| 2002: Gerard van Velde \| 2006: Shani Davis