Anja Schneiderheinze-Stöckel (; born 8 April 1978 in
Erfurt
Erfurt () is the capital and largest city in the Central German state of Thuringia. It is located in the wide valley of the Gera river (progression: ), in the southern part of the Thuringian Basin, north of the Thuringian Forest. It sits i ...
) is a German
bobsled
Bobsleigh or bobsled is a team winter sport that involves making timed runs down narrow, twisting, banked, iced tracks in a gravity-powered sleigh. International bobsleigh competitions are governed by the International Bobsleigh and Skeleton Feder ...
der who has competed since 2001. At the
2006 Winter Olympics
The 2006 Winter Olympics, officially the XX Olympic Winter Games ( it, XX Giochi olimpici invernali) and also known as Torino 2006, were a winter multi-sport event held from 10 to 26 February 2006 in Turin, Italy. This marked the second ...
in
Turin
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, she won gold in the two-woman event with teammate
Sandra Kiriasis.
The pair also won two medals at the
FIBT World Championships
The IBSF World Championships (known as the FIBT World Championships until 2015), part of the International Bobsleigh and Skeleton Federation, have taken place on an annual basis since 1930. Starting with 2002, championships of non-Winter Olympi ...
with a gold in
2005 and a silver in
2004.
References
Bobsleigh two-woman Olympic medalists since 2002
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FIBT profileOfficial website
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1978 births
Living people
Sportspeople from Erfurt
German female bobsledders
Bobsledders at the 2006 Winter Olympics
Bobsledders at the 2014 Winter Olympics
Olympic bobsledders for Germany
Olympic gold medalists for Germany
Olympic medalists in bobsleigh
Medalists at the 2006 Winter Olympics
21st-century German women
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