Jenny Wolf

Jenny Wolf

Personal information
Born	31 January 1979 East Berlin, East Germany [1]
Height	1.72 m (5 ft 8 in)
Weight	72 kg (159 lb)
Sport
Country	Germany
Sport	Speed skating
Medal record Women's speed skating Representing Germany Olympic Games 2010 Vancouver 500 m World Sprint Championships 2008 Heerenveen Sprint 2009 Moscow Sprint 2010 Obihiro Sprint World Single Distance Championships 2007 Salt Lake City 500 m 2008 Nagano 500 m 2009 Vancouver 500 m 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.

References

External links

• Jenny Wolf at the International Skating Union
• Jenny Wolf at the International Olympic Committee
• Jenny Wolf at the Olympic Channel
• Jenny Wolf at Olympics at Sports-Reference.com (archived)
• Jenny Wolf at the Deutscher Olympischer Sportbund (in German)
• Photos of Jenny Wolf
• Official website

Records
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