Jenny Wolf
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Born |
Berlin, Germany | 31 January 1979||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Height | 1.72 m (5 ft 8 in) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Weight | 72 kg (159 lb; 11.3 st) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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Country | Germany | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Sport | Speed skating | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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Jenny Wolf (born 31 January 1979) is a German speed skater who is the current world record holder, at 74.42 seconds, for the women's 500 m x 2 in long track speed skating.[1] 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.
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Preceded by Catriona Le May Doan |
Women's 500 m speed skating world record 10 March 2007 – 29 January 2012 |
Succeeded by Yu Jing |
Preceded by Catriona Le May Doan |
Women's 2 x 500 m speed skating world record 10 March 2007 – 28 December 2013 |
Succeeded by Heather Richardson |