Monique Garbrecht-Enfeldt (born 11 December 1968) is a German former ice speed skater. During her 15-year career, she became sprint world champion five times (1991, 1999, 2000, 2001, 2003), and in addition she won four gold medals in the

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, two on the 500 and two on the 1000 m. She won two Olympic medals within 10 years of each other: first time at the

1992 Winter Olympics ) , nations = 64 , athletes = 1,801 (1313 men, 488 women) , events = 57 in 6 sports (12 disciplines) , opening = 8 February 1992 , closing = 23 February 1992 , opened_by = President François Mitterrand , cauldron ...

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a bronze, and in the

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a silver. She also had planned to qualify for the

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but poor results in the season's first World Cup races got her to delay the plans. On 1 July 2000 she married her manager, Swedish former speed skater Magnus Enfeldt. On 1 December 2005 she announced her retirement from speed skating.

Speed skating

Personal records

World records

Results overview

References

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Photos of Monique Garbrecht-Enfeldt
{{DEFAULTSORT:Garbrecht-Enfeldt, Monique 1968 births German female speed skaters Speed skaters at the 1992 Winter Olympics Speed skaters at the 1994 Winter Olympics Speed skaters at the 1998 Winter Olympics Speed skaters at the 2002 Winter Olympics Olympic speed skaters for Germany Medalists at the 1992 Winter Olympics Medalists at the 2002 Winter Olympics Olympic medalists in speed skating Olympic silver medalists for Germany Olympic bronze medalists for Germany World record setters in speed skating Sportspeople from Potsdam Living people World Single Distances Speed Skating Championships medalists