Enke, Karin

Enke, Karin

▪ German skater
married name  Enke-Kania  
born June 20, 1961, Dresden, East Germany [now Germany]

      German figure skater turned speed skater who won eight Olympic medals, including three gold. Enke's switch from figure skating to speed skating was relatively easy, and she proved to be a natural speed skater.

      After placing fourth in the 1975 national championships and ninth in the 1977 European championships in figure skating, Enke switched to speed skating, and in 1980 she won the world sprint championship. That same year at the Olympic Winter Games in Lake Placid, New York, U.S., although placing fourth in the 1,000-metre race, she won a gold medal in the 500-metre contest, setting an Olympic record of 41.78 sec. Enke was the youngest gold medalist that year. She repeated her win at the world sprint championships in 1981, 1983, and 1984, placing second in 1982. In the overall world championships she won silver medals in 1981 and 1983 and gold medals in 1982 and 1984. When Enke returned to the Olympics in Sarajevo, Yugoslavia (now in Bosnia and Herzegovina), in 1984, she won gold medals in the 1,000-metre event and in the 1,500-metre event, in which she set a world record of 2 min 3.42 sec. In addition, she took silver medals in the 500- and 3,000-metre events. In 1988, skating as Karin Kania, she won a bronze medal in the 500-metre race and silver medals in the 1,000- and 1,500-metre competitions at the Olympics held in Calgary, Alberta, Canada.

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