Gerda Weissensteiner

Medal record

Weissensteiner in 2006.
Women's Luge
Competitor for  Italy
Olympic Games
Gold 1994 Lillehammer Women's singles
World Championships
Gold 1989 Winterberg Mixed team
Gold 1993 Calgary Women's singles
Silver 1989 Winterberg Women's singles
Silver 1990 Calgary Mixed team
Silver 1995 Lillehammer Mixed team
Bronze 1991 Winterberg Mixed team
Bronze 1993 Calgary Mixed team
Bronze 1995 Lillehammer Women's singles
Bronze 1996 Altenberg Women's singles
Bronze 1996 Altenberg Mixed team
Bronze 1997 Igls Mixed team
World Cup Championships
Gold 1992-93 Women's singles
Gold 1997-98 Women's singles
Silver 1988-89 Women's singles
Silver 1989-90 Women's singles
Silver 1990-91 Women's singles
Silver 1995-96 Women's singles
European Championships
Gold 1994 Königssee Women's singles
Gold 1994 Königssee Mixed team
Silver 1990 Igls Women's singles
Bronze 1988 Königssee Mixed team
Women's Bobsleigh
Competitor for  Italy
Olympic Games
Bronze 2006 Turin Two woman
World Cup Championships
Bronze 2002-03 Two-woman
Bronze 2003-04 Two-woman
European Championships
Silver 2006 St. Moritz Two-woman

Gerda Weissensteiner (born 3 January 1969 in Bolzano, South Tyrol) is an Italian luger and bobsleigh pilot who has competed from the late 1980s to 2006. Competing in six Winter Olympics, she won the gold medal in the women's singles luge event at the 1994 Winter Olympics in Lillehammer, and together with Jennifer Isacco she won the bronze in Turin in the two-woman bobsleigh at the 2006 Winter Olympics.

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Luge career

Weissensteiner won eleven medals at the FIL World Luge Championships, including two gold (Women's singles: 1993, Mixed team: 1989), three silvers (Women's singles: 1989, Mixed team: 1990, 1995), and six bronzes (Women's singles: 1995, 1996; Mixed team: 1991, 1993, 1996, 1997).

She was also won four medals at the FIL European Luge Championships with two gold (Mixed team and Women's singles: both in 1994), one silver (Women's singles: 1990), and one bronze (Mixed team: 1988).

Weissensteiner won the overall Luge World Cup title in women's singles twice (1992-3, 1997-8). She was also the flagbearer at the opening ceremonies of the 1998 Winter Olympics in Nagano.

Bobsleigh career

Weissensteiner switched to bobsleigh in 2001. She finished seventh in the 2-woman bobsleigh (with the former biker Antonella Bellutti, gold medalist in cycling) at the 2002 Winter Olympics. Her best finish in the Bobsleigh World Cup championship was third twice in the two-woman event. (2002-3, 2003-4 (tied with Germany's Susi Erdmann)). She finished sixth in the 2-woman bobsleigh event at the 2005 FIBT World Championships in Calgary, Alberta, Canada. The following year, Weissensteiner joined Erdmann as being one of only two people to win a medal in both bobsleigh and luge at the Winter Olympics.

She retired from all competition after the 2006 Winter Olympics in Turin.

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