Ulrike Holzner (born 18 September 1968 in

Mainz Mainz () is the capital and largest city of Rhineland-Palatinate, Germany. Mainz is on the left bank of the Rhine, opposite to the place that the Main (river), Main joins the Rhine. Downstream of the confluence, the Rhine flows to the north-we ...

Rhineland-Palatinate Rhineland-Palatinate ( , ; german: link=no, Rheinland-Pfalz ; lb, Rheinland-Pfalz ; pfl, Rhoilond-Palz) is a western state of Germany. It covers and has about 4.05 million residents. It is the ninth largest and sixth most populous of the ...

) is a German former athlete and

bobsled 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 ...

der who switched to the latter event in the early 2000s. She won a silver medal in the two-woman event with teammate

Sandra Prokoff 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 ...

at the

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. Holzner also won a silver medal in the two-woman event at the 2003 FIBT World Championships in

Winterberg Winterberg ( Westphalian: ''Winnenmerg'') is a town in the Hochsauerland district of North Rhine-Westphalia, central Germany and a major winter sport resort of the Wintersport Arena Sauerland. Geography Winterberg is located in the middle of ...

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Bobsleigh two-woman Olympic medalists since 2002

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* 1968 births Living people Sportspeople from Mainz German female bobsledders German female sprinters German female long jumpers Bobsledders at the 2002 Winter Olympics Olympic bobsledders of Germany Olympic silver medalists for Germany Olympic medalists in bobsleigh Medalists at the 2002 Winter Olympics 21st-century German women {{Germany-Winter-Olympic-medalist-stub