Karin Enke biography
Karin Enke, married identify Enke-Kania, (born June 20, 1961, Dresden, East Germany [now Germany]), German determine skater turned pace skater who gained eight Olympic medals, together with three gold. Enke’s change from determine skating to pace skating was comparatively straightforward, and he or she proved to be a pure pace skater.
After putting fourth within the 1975 nationwide championships and ninth within the 1977 European championships in determine skating, Enke switched to hurry skating, and in 1980 she gained the world dash championship. That identical 12 months on the Olympic Winter Games in Lake Placid, New York, U.S., though putting fourth within the 1,000-metre race, she gained a gold medal within the 500-metre contest, setting an Olympic report of 41.78 sec. Enke was the youngest gold medalist that 12 months. She repeated her win on the world dash championships in 1981, 1983, and 1984, putting second in 1982. In the general world championships she gained 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 gained gold medals within the 1,000-metre occasion and within the 1,500-metre occasion, wherein she set a world report of two min 3.42 sec. In addition, she took silver medals within the 500- and three,000-metre occasions. In 1988, skating as Karin Kania, she gained a bronze medal within the 500-metre race and silver medals within the 1,000- and 1,500-metre competitions on the Olympics held in Calgary, Alberta, Canada.