Diana Sartor (born 23 November 1970) is a German
skeleton racer
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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
The Königssee is a natural lake in the extreme southeast Berchtesgadener Land district of the German state of Bavaria, near the Austrian border. Most of the lake is within the Berchtesgaden National Park.
Description
Situated within the Berch ...
. That year she was also crowned
European Champion.
Competing in two
Winter Olympics
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, Sartor earned her best finish of fourth in the women's skeleton event both in
2002 and
2006. During 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 ...
, Sartor competed while nine weeks pregnant and missed out on a medal by 0.28 seconds.
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
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finish was second in the women's event in 2003–4.
Sartor is married to former luger
Steffen Skel. The couple have two children: Malin (who Sartor was pregnant with at the 2006 Olympics) and Silas.
Since retiring from competition, she has managed a
boarding house in
Altenberg which was formerly run by her parents.
In addition she serves as a member of
Sächsische Schweiz-Osterzgebirge
Saxon Switzerland-Eastern Ore Mountains (german: Sächsische Schweiz-Osterzgebirge) is a district ('' Kreis'') in Saxony, Germany. It is named after the mountain ranges Saxon Switzerland and Eastern Ore Mountains.
History
The district was estab ...
district council for the
Free Voters
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. She has also been a winner on the German cooking television programme ''
Die Küchenschlacht''.
References
2002 women's skeleton resultsFIBT profileSkeletonsport.com profile*
ttps://web.archive.org/web/20080304035143/http://sports123.com/ske/ww.html Women's skeleton world championship medalists since 2000
;Specific
External links
*
1970 births
Living people
German female skeleton racers
Skeleton racers at the 2002 Winter Olympics
Skeleton racers at the 2006 Winter Olympics
Olympic skeleton racers for Germany
21st-century German women politicians
German sportsperson-politicians
Local politicians in Germany
20th-century German women
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