Bianca Walter

Bianca Walter
Bianca Walter in 2012
Personal information
Nationality German
Born (1990-03-31) 31 March 1990
Dresden, East Germany[1]
Sport
Sport Short track speed skating

Bianca Walter (born 31 March 1990) is a German short track speed skater. She competed in the women's 500 metres at the 2018 Winter Olympics.[2]

Biography

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[3] 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.[4] Walter won her first silver medal with German team at the European Championships in Turin.

She had a notable sporting success when she won the European Championships 2010 in front of a home crowd in Dresden. Together with her team, she won her first gold medal with the relay. At the World Cup in 2010 in Sofia she participated for the first time in individual World Championship races.

In the 2010/11 season Walter qualified for the semi-finals of the top eight runners in the 1000 m and 1500 m at the European Championships. She also competed for the first time in the 500 m. sprint. For the second year she and the German national squad came fourth.

At the European Championships 2013 in Malmö, Sweden, she won the silver medal with the German relay team.

Since 20 October 2012, Walter holds the German record for the Women's Short Track over 1000 m and since 10 February 2013, the German record over the 500 m sprint distance.

References

  1. ↑ "Bianca Walter". Bianca Walter. Retrieved 10 February 2018.
  2. ↑ "Bianca Walter". Pyeongchang 2018. Retrieved 9 February 2018.
  3. ↑ Evans, Hilary; Gjerde, Arild; Heijmans, Jeroen; Mallon, Bill. "Skadi Walter Olympic Results". Olympics at Sports-Reference.com. Sports Reference LLC. Retrieved 1 February 2018.
  4. ↑ "Bianca Walter" (in German). Archived from the original on 2012-07-13. Retrieved 2011-11-15.
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