Sylvia Brunner

Sylvia Brunner
Personal information
Born (1958-01-11) January 11, 1958
Davos, Graubünden
Height 1.68 m (5 ft 6 in)
Weight 58 kg (128 lb; 9.1 st)
Sport
Country   Switzerland
Sport Speed skating
Medal record
Women's speed skating
Olympic Games
World Championships

Sylvia Brunner (during her marriage Jörg-Brunner) (born 11 January 1958) is a former speed skater who represented her native country Switzerland in two consecutive Winter Olympics, starting in 1980 in Lake Placid, United States.

History

Sylvia Brunner first came to the attention of the speedskating world when she won the first of her eight Swiss sprint titles in 1976, just 18 years old. The next years she won the Swiss allround championships six times and participating in the international championships; twice at the World Junior Speed Skating Championships (1977 and 1978, winning a silver distance medal on the 500 meter both times); eight times at the World Sprint Speed Skating Championships (1977–1984); three times at the European Speed Skating Championships (1981–1983) and once at the World Allround Speed Skating Championships (1982) and the two before mentioned Winter Olympics. Over the course of her career Sylvia Brunner skated three speed skating world records for Juniors.

Records

Over the course of her career, Sylvia Brunner skated three Junior World Records:

Junior World records, data from[1]
DistanceResultDateLocation
500 m43.5327 Jan 1978Davos
500 m43.2728 Jan 1978Davos
Sprint combination176.07527/28 Jan 1978Davos
Personal records, data from[2][3]
DistanceResultDateLocation
500 m41.25 Feb 1984Davos
1,000 m1:23.5421 Jan 1984Davos
1,500 m2:12.2729 Jan 1984Davos
3,000 m4:47.329 Dec 1981Inzell
5,000 m8:22.7712 Dec 1982Inzell
Sprint combination168.35012/13 Feb 1983Davos
Mini combination177.79928/29 Dec 1981Inzell
Small combination186.6673/4 Mar 1983Inzell

References

Notes
  1. ↑ Eng and Koolhaas 1985, p. 120.
  2. ↑ Eng and Koolhaas 1985, p. 131.
  3. ↑ Eng, Petersen and Teigen 1989, p. 58.
Bibliography

  • Eng, Trond with Marnix Koolhaas. National All Time & Encyclopedia Men/Ladies as at 1.7.1985, Issue 1, Volume 2: Italy - Switzerland - Spain. Degernes, Norway: WSSSA-Skøytenytt, 1985.
  • Eng, Trond with Preben G. Petersen and Magne Teigen. World All Time "Vierkampf", 1.7.1989. Veggli, Norway: WSSSA-Skøytenytt, 1989.
  • "Sylvia Brunner". SpeedSkatingStats.com. Retrieved 8 September 2012.
  • Gundel, Dirk (2010). "Skater business card of Sylvia Brunner". SpeedskatingNews. speedskatingnews.info. Retrieved 12 October 2010.
  • OlyMADMen (2010). "Silvia Brunner". SR/Olympic Sports. sports-reference.com. Retrieved 12 October 2010.


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