Steffi Jacob (born Steffi Hanzlik on 30 September 1975 in
Schmalkalden
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) is a German
skeleton racer
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who has competed in the early 2000s. She won a gold medal in the inaugural women's skeleton event at the
2000 FIBT World Championships in
Igls
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.
Hanzlik also finished tied for seventh (with
Russia
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's
Yekaterina Mironova) at the
2002 Winter Olympics
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in
Salt Lake City
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.
She also won the women's
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overall title twice (Inaugural 1996-7, 1998-9).
References
2002 women's skeleton results
1975 births
Living people
German female skeleton racers
People from Schmalkalden
Skeleton racers at the 2002 Winter Olympics
Olympic skeleton racers of Germany
Sportspeople from Thuringia
20th-century German women
21st-century German women
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