Tobias Schneider (born 23 July 1981,

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) is a German

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2009 WSD Speed Skating Championships - 28-2

He is employed by the

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as a ''Sportsoldat'' (sports soldier). His best distances are the longer ones, the 5,000 m and 10,000 m, but he is also among the best current German allround skaters. On 25 November 2006 at the

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he set a new German record on the 10,000 m with 13:16.36. This also made him the highest ranked German speedskater on the Adelskalender – a year later he was surpassed by

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, however. In 2006 he was selected as ''deutscher Eisschnellläufer des Jahres'' (German speedskater of the year). As of January 2008, his personal records are 36.94 (500-m), 1:45.82 (1,500 m), 6:21.55 (5,000 m) and 13:16.36 (10,000 m), and his Adelskalender rank is #26.

External links

Schneider's homepage

Tobias Schneider at SkateResults.com

1981 births Living people German male speed skaters Olympic speed skaters for Germany Speed skaters at the 2006 Winter Olympics 21st-century German people {{Germany-speed-skating-bio-stub