Claudia Pechstein

Claudia Pechstein
Medal record
Center
Claudia Pechstein
Competitor for  Germany
Women's speed skating
Olympic Games
Gold 2002 Salt Lake City 3000 m
Gold 1994 Lillehammer 5000 m
Gold 1998 Nagano 5000 m
Gold 2002 Salt Lake City 5000 m
Gold 2006 Turin Team pursuit
Silver 1998 Nagano 3000 m
Silver 2006 Turin 5000 m
Bronze 1992 Albertville 5000 m
Bronze 1994 Lillehammer 3000 m
World Championships
Gold 2000 Nagano 1500 m
Gold 2000 Nagano 3000 m
Gold 2004 Seoul 3000 m
Gold 1996 Hamar 5000 m
Gold 2003 Berlin 5000 m
Gold 2000 Milwaukee Allround
Silver 1996 Hamar 1500 m
Silver 1996 Hamar 3000 m
Silver 1998 Calgary 3000 m
Silver 1999 Heerenveen 3000 m
Silver 2003 Berlin 3000 m
Silver 2005 Inzell 3000 m
Silver 1998 Calgary 5000 m
Silver 1999 Heerenveen 5000 m
Silver 2000 Nagano 5000 m
Silver 2001 Salt Like City 5000 m
Silver 2005 Inzell 5000 m
Silver 2007 Salt Lake City 5000 m
Silver 1996 Inzell Allround
Silver 1997 Nagano Allround
Silver 1998 Heerenveen Allround
Silver 1999 Hamar Allround
Silver 2001 Budapest Allround
Silver 2003 Gothenburg Allround
Silver 2004 Hamar Allround
Silver 2006 Calgary Allround
Bronze 1998 Calgary 1500 m
Bronze 2001 Salt Lake City 3000 m
Bronze 1997 Warszawa 5000 m
Bronze 2004 Seoul 5000 m
Bronze 2002 Heerenveen Allround
Bronze 2005 Moscow Allround
Bronze 2007 Salt Lake City Team pursuit
Bronze 2008 Nagano Team pursuit
Bronze 2011 Inzell 5000m
Bronze 2011 Inzell Team pursuit
European Championships
Gold 1998 Helsinki Allround
Gold 2006 Hamar Allround
Gold 2009 Heerenveen Allround
Silver 1999 Heerenveen Allround
Silver 2001 Baselga di Piné Allround
Silver 2002 Erfurt Allround
Silver 2003 Heerenveen Allround
Silver 2004 Heerenveen Allround
Bronze 1996 Heerenveen Allround
Bronze 2005 Heerenveen Allround

Claudia Pechstein (born 22 February 1972) is a German speed skater. With a total of five Olympic gold medals, two silver, and two bronze medals, she is the most successful German Winter Olympian of all time. Pechstein is the first female Winter Olympian to win medals in five consecutive Olympics (1992–2006), and she won the gold medal in the women's 5,000 meter race in three consecutive Olympics (1994–2002), and the silver medal in the fourth (2006). In the 2006 Winter Olympics in Turin, Italy, Pechstein also won a gold medal in the women's team pursuit.

Claudia Pechstein was born in East Berlin. She held a world record on the 5,000 m track with the time 6:46.91 achieved on the Utah Olympic Oval in Salt Lake City on 23 February 2002, which was beaten by Martina Sáblíková on the same oval five years later.

Pechstein is a sergeant in the German Federal Police and trains at the force's sports training centre at Bad Endorf.

As reported by Olympic news outlet Around the Rings, Pechstein is aiming for an Olympic return, this time as a cyclist. "I will start in the individual pursuit at the German Track Championships from July 6-10 in Berlin," she said. "I am also planning to race the individual sprint or the 500-meter time trial. I trust I can do this because as a skater I've trained a lot on the bike. I have nothing to lose. I don't know how this kind of competition works, so this alone is really exciting."

Two-year ban because of accusation of blood doping

Claudia Pechstein (2007)

After the World Championships in Norway in February 2009, the International Skating Union accused Pechstein of blood doping and banned her from all competitions for two years. This ban was based on irregular levels of reticulocytes in her blood. These levels were highest during the Calgary World Cup 2007 and the Hamar World Championships in 2009; elevated levels were also found during a number of other competitions but only during a small minority of training spot checks.[1]

Pechstein denied that she had doped and appealed to the Court of Arbitration for Sport (CAS) in Lausanne, claiming among other things that she has an inherited condition explaining the abnormal measurements. The court affirmed the ban in November 2009, finding no evidence for an inherited condition in the expert testimony provided by Pechstein.[2] This was the first case of doping based on circumstantial evidence alone; no forbidden substances were ever found during her repeated tests.[1][3]

In December 2009 she asked the Federal Supreme Court of Switzerland for an injunction and was allowed to participate at a single 3000m race in Salt Lake City, so that she could qualify for the 2010 Winter Olympics in Vancouver should her appeal of the ban be successful. She finished 13th in the race on 11 December but would have needed a place among the top 8 to qualify for the Olympics.[4]

In January 2010 the Swiss Federal Supreme Court refused to temporarily suspend Pechstein's ban for the Olympics.[5] On February 19, 2010 the CAS ad-hoc panel at the Vancouver Olympics rejected Pechstein's last minute appeal to be admitted to the ice skating team events.[6]

In February 2010, Pechstein filed a criminal complaint in Switzerland against the International Skating Union, alleging trial fraud.[7]

On March 15, 2010 Gerhard Ehninger, head of the German Society for Hematology and Oncology, said that an evaluation of the case points to a light form of a blood anemia called spherocytosis - apparently inherited from her father.[8] Pechstein attempted to use this new evidence in her appeal before the Federal Supreme Court of Switzerland. The International Skating Union issued a press release explaining their opposition to this appeal.[9]

Pechstein stood to lose her position with the German Federal Police should blood doping have been proved "beyond reasonable doubt". Disciplinary proceedings against her were halted in August 2010 because no such proof was available.[10] Pechstein applied for unpaid leave in order to be able to continue her training, which was denied. As a result, she suffered a nervous breakdown in September 2010.[11]

The Swiss Federal Supreme Court issued its final ruling on September 28, 2010, rejecting Pechstein's appeal and confirming the ban.[12] Pechstein returned to competition in February 2011. She then won the Bronze Medal in the 2011 World Championships on the 5000m course, only behind World Champion Martina Sáblíková from the Czech Republic and her team mate Stephanie Beckert.

Skating record

Personal records
Women's
Distance Time Date Location Notes
500 m 38.99
1000 m 1:16.15
1500 m 1:54.83
3000 m 3:57.35 OR
5000 m 6:46.91 23 February 2002 Salt Lake City OR
Winter Olympics World Cup
  • 1500 Meters
    • 2003: 2nd
    • 2002: 2nd
    • 2001: 3rd
    • 2000: 2nd
    • 1999: 2nd
    • 1998: 2nd
  • 3000/5000 Meters
    • 2004: 1st
    • 2003: 1st
    • 2002: 2nd
    • 2001: 2nd
    • 2000: 2nd
    • 1999: 2nd
    • 1998: 2nd

See also

  • List of multiple Winter Olympic medalists

References

  1. ^ a b "Sportgericht urteilt gegen Pechstein", sueddeutsche.de, 25 November 2009, http://www.sueddeutsche.de/sport/233/495558/text/  (German)
  2. ^ CAS Arbitral Award, 25 November 2009
  3. ^ "Olympiasiegerin Pechstein wegen Blutdopings gesperrt", Spiegel Online, 3 July 2009, http://www.spiegel.de/sport/wintersport/0,1518,634241,00.html  (German)
  4. ^ "Pechstein fails Olympia mark, vows to fight on", Earth Times, 15 February 2010, http://www.earthtimes.org/articles/show/298960,pechstein-fails-olympia-mark-vows-to-fight-on--summary.html 
  5. ^ "Pechstein loses last appeal, will miss Olympics", USA Today, January 26, 2010, http://www.usatoday.com/sports/olympics/2010-01-26-1078434314_x.htm 
  6. ^ "Sportgericht lehnt Pechstein-Antrag ab" (in German), Spiegel Online, 19 February 2010, http://www.spiegel.de/sport/wintersport/0,1518,678903,00.html 
  7. ^ "Pechstein zitiert E-Mail und beantragt Startrecht" (in German), Spiegel Online, 15 February 2010, http://www.spiegel.de/sport/wintersport/0,1518,677949,00.html 
  8. ^ "Doctors argue Claudia Pechstein's abnormal blood levels caused by hereditary anomaly", The Canadian Press, 15 March 2010, http://vancouver2010.sympatico.ca/Home/ContentPosting_2010.htm?newsitemid=2663302&feedname=CP_EN_OGAMES&show=True&number=5&showbyline=False&abc=abc 
  9. ^ ISU Position in the Pechstein Case, 18 May 2010
  10. ^ Disziplinarverfahren gegen Polizeihauptmeisterin Claudia Pechstein eingestellt, Bundesministerium des Inneren, 16 August 2010.(German)
  11. ^ Kritik an de Maizière statt Antritt zum Dienst, Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung, 15 September 2010. (German)
  12. ^ Bundesgericht weist Revisionsgesuch der Eisschnellläuferin Claudia Pechstein ab, Medienmitteilung des Bundesgerichts, 1 October 2010. (German)

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