Jenny Wolf (born 31 January 1979) is a former German speed skater. On 10 March 2007 at the ISU World Single Distances Speed Skating Championships in

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, Utah, she broke the world record for the women's 500 m in her second race. She finished sixth on the 500 m at the

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, and tenth on the same distance in 2002. Wolf won the

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in the 2005–06 season on the 500 m. Her favorite distance is the 100 m, but this is not an Olympic event. Wolf won the silver medal at the 500 m at the

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in Vancouver, five hundredths of a second after South Korean Lee Sang-hwa over two races. Wolf was the world record holder in the event at the time. On 13 November 2010, Wolf won her 40th 500 m World Cup race, thereby breaking

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's record, who won 39 World Cup races on that distance.

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* {{DEFAULTSORT:Wolf, Jenny 1979 births German female speed skaters Speed skaters at the 2002 Winter Olympics Speed skaters at the 2006 Winter Olympics Speed skaters at the 2010 Winter Olympics Speed skaters at the 2014 Winter Olympics Olympic speed skaters of Germany Medalists at the 2010 Winter Olympics Olympic medalists in speed skating Olympic silver medalists for Germany Speed skaters from Berlin Living people World Single Distances Speed Skating Championships medalists World Sprint Speed Skating Championships medalists Recipients of the Order of Merit of Berlin