Evi Sachenbacher-Stehle

Medal record

Sachenbacher-Stehle at Stockholm in 2007.
Women's cross country skiing
Competitor for  Germany
Olympic Games
Gold 2002 Salt Lake City 4 × 5 km
Gold 2010 Vancouver Team sprint
Silver 2002 Salt Lake City Individual sprint
Silver 2006 Turin 4 x 5 km
Silver 2010 Vancouver 4 x 5 km relay
World Championships
Gold 2003 Val di Fiemme 4 x 5 km
Silver 2003 Val di Fiemme 5 km + 5 km double pursuit
Silver 2007 Sapporo Team sprint
Silver 2007 Sapporo 4 x 5 km
Silver 2009 Liberec 4 x 5 km
Bronze 1999 Ramsau 4 x 5 km

Evi Sachenbacher-Stehle (born November 27, 1980, in Traunstein) is a German cross country skier from Reit im Winkl who has competed since 1998. Competing in three Winter Olympics, she won five medals with two golds (Team sprint: 2010, 4 x 5 km: 2002) and three silvers (Individual sprint: 2002, 4 x 5 km: 2006, 2010).

Sachenbacher-Stehle has also won four medals at the FIS Nordic World Ski Championships with a gold (4×5 km: 2003) and three silvers (5 km + 5 km double pursuit: 2003, team sprint: 2007 with Claudia Künzel-Nystad, 4 x 5 km: 2009). She also has fourteen individual victories at various levels in distances up to 5 km in her career from 1998 to 2006.

She married German alpine skier Johannes Stehle in July 2005.

Controversy

Sachenbacher received a five-day suspension at the beginning of the 2006 Winter Olympics due to a high hemoglobin level. She was one of twelve athletes given five-day suspensions for health reasons – the International Ski Federation decided they could not safely compete due to an abnormally high red blood cell counts.

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