Bianca Walter
| File:BiancaWalter.jpg Walter in 2012 | |
| Personal information | |
|---|---|
| Nationality | German |
| Born | Bianca Walter 31 March 1990 |
| Sport | |
| Sport | Short track speed skating |
Bianca Merker[2] (born Bianca Walter; 31 March 1990) is a German short track speed skater. She competed in the women's 500 metres at the 2018 Winter Olympics.[3]
Biography
[edit | edit source]Walter was born in 1990 in EV Dresden. She was the daughter of the former speed skater Skadi Walter and she was brought up in an enthusiastic family of skaters. Her mother was a successful skater[4] and her grandmother was a figure skating coach. Walter was on skates at the age of three and by age of nine, she experimented with the short track at the former ESC Dresden.
In 2006 she became a member of the German Ladies Short Track national team when she was 16 and she made her international debut in the 2006/07 World Cup season in Saguenay in Canada, The same year she competed in the Junior World Championships where she was beaten in the heats.[5] Walter won her first silver medal with German team at the European Championships in Turin.
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