Claudia Pechstein

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Medal record
Claudia Pechstein
Competitor for  Germany
Women's speed skating
Olympic Games
Gold	2006 Turin	Team pursuit
Silver	2006 Turin	5000 m
Gold	2002 Salt Lake City	3000 m
Gold	2002 Salt Lake City	5000 m
Gold	1998 Nagano	5000 m
Silver	1998 Nagano	3000 m
Gold	1994 Lillehammer	5000 m
Bronze	1994 Lillehammer	3000 m
Bronze	1992 Albertville	5000 m
World Championships
Silver	2007 Salt Lake City	5000 m
Bronze	2007 Salt Lake City	Team pursuit
Bronze	2005 Moscow	Allround
Silver	2005 Inzell	3000 m
Silver	2005 Inzell	5000 m
Silver	2004 Hamar	Allround
Gold	2004 Seoul	3000 m
Bronze	2004 Seoul	5000 m

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.

[edit] Skating record

[edit] External links

• Official website (German)
• Photos of Claudia Pechstein
• Claudia Pechstein at Olympic.org