Franziska Fritz (born 3 January 1991 in
Hildburghausen
Hildburghausen ( IPA adapted from: ) is a town in Thuringia in central Germany, capital of the district Hildburghausen.
Geography
It is situated in the Franconian part of Thuringia south of the Thuringian Forest, in the valley of the Werra riv ...
) is a German
bobsledder
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 ...
.
Fritz competed at the
2014 Winter Olympics for Germany. She teamed with driver
Sandra Kiriasis
Sandra Kiriasis ( Prokoff; born 4 January 1975 in Dresden) is a German former bobsledder who has competed from 2000 to 2014.
At the 2002 Winter Olympics in Salt Lake City she won silver in the two-woman event together with teammate Ulrike Holzn ...
as the Germany-1 sled in the
two-woman event, finishing 5th.
As of April 2014, her best showing at the
World Championships
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is 7th, in
2013
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.
[
Fritz made her ]World Cup
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debut in December 2013. As of April 2014, she has one World Cup victory, coming at Winterberg in 2013-14.[
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World Cup Podiums
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References
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1991 births
Living people
German female bobsledders
Olympic bobsledders for Germany
People from Hildburghausen
Bobsledders at the 2014 Winter Olympics
Sportspeople from Thuringia
21st-century German women
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