Diane Sartor
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Diane Sartor (born November 23, 1970) is a German skeleton racer who competed from 1996 to 2006. She won a gold medal in the women's skeleton event at the 2004 FIBT World Championships in Königssee.
Competing in two Winter Olympics, Sartor earned her best finish of fourth in the women's skeleton event both in 2002 and 2006. During the 2006 Winter Olympics, Sartor competed while nine weeks pregnant.
She was dating German luger Steffen Skel at the time of the 2006 games. Sartor took the 2006-07 Skeleton World Cup off to have her child, but announced on the October 5, 2007 FIBT website that she would return to the World Cup for 2007-08 season though no records showed of her competing that season.
Her best overall seasonal Skeleton World Cup finish was second in the women's event in 2003-4.
[edit] References
- 2002 women's skeleton results
- 2006 women's skeleton results
- FIBT profile
- List of women's skeleton World Cup champions since 1997.
- Skeletonsport.com profile
- USA Today blog on February 16, 2006 article on Sartor's preganancy during the 2006 Winter Olympics
- Women's skeleton world championship medalists since 2000
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