Jenny Wolf

Jenny Wolf

File:Jenny Wolf beim Weltcupfinale in Berlin (cropped).JPG
Personal information
Born	(1979-01-31) 31 January 1979 East Berlin, East Germany
Height	1.72 m (5 ft 8 in)
Weight	72 kg (159 lb)
Sport
Country	Germany
Sport	Speed skating
Retired	2014
Medal record Women's speed skating Representing Germany Olympic Games Silver medal – second place 2010 Vancouver 500 m World Sprint Championships Gold medal – first place 2008 Heerenveen Sprint Silver medal – second place 2009 Moscow Sprint Bronze medal – third place 2010 Obihiro Sprint World Single Distance Championships Gold medal – first place 2007 Salt Lake City 500 m Gold medal – first place 2008 Nagano 500 m Gold medal – first place 2009 Vancouver 500 m Gold medal – first place 2011 Inzell 500 m

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 Salt Lake City, 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 2006 Winter Olympics of Turin, and tenth on the same distance in 2002.

Wolf won the Speed Skating World Cup 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 2010 Winter Olympics 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 Bonnie Blair's record, who won 39 World Cup races on that distance.

External links

• Jenny Wolf at the International Skating Union (archived)
• Jenny Wolf at Olympics.com
• Jenny Wolf at Team Deutschland (in German)
• Photos of Jenny Wolf
• Official website