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Medal record
Anni Friesinger at the 2006 Winter Olympics.
Women's Speed Skating
Competitor for  Germany
Olympic Games
Gold	2002 Salt Lake City	1500 m
Gold	2006 Turin	Team pursuit
Bronze	1998 Nagano	3000 m
Bronze	2006 Turin	1000 m
World Championships
Silver	2009 Vancouver	1000 m
Gold	2009 Vancouver	1500 m
Gold	2008 Nagano	1500 m
Gold	2008 Nagano	1000 m
Silver	2007 Salt Lake City	1000 m
Silver	2007 Heerenveen	Allround
Gold	2007 Hamar	Sprint
Gold	2005 Moscow	Allround
Silver	2005 Inzell	1500 m
Silver	2005 Inzell	1000 m
Gold	2005 Inzell	5000 m
Gold	2005 Inzell	Team pursuit
Silver	2004 Nagano	Sprint
Gold	2004 Seoul	1500 m
Silver	2004 Seoul	3000 m
Gold	2004 Seoul	1000 m
Gold	2003 Berlin	1000 m
Gold	2003 Berlin	1500 m
Gold	2003 Berlin	3000 m
Gold	2002 Heerenveen	Allround
Gold	2001 Salt Lake City	1500 m
Gold	2001 Budapest	Allround
Silver	2001 Salt Lake City	3000 m
Silver	2000 Nagano	1500 m
Gold	1998 Calgary	1500 m
Bronze	1998 Calgary	3000 m
Bronze	1998 Heerenveen	Allround
Silver	1997 Warsaw	1500 m
Silver	1997 Warsaw	3000 m

Anna ("Anni") Christina Friesinger-Postma (born January 11, 1977 in Bad Reichenhall) is a German speed skater. Her father Georg Friesinger, of Germany, and mother Janina ("Jana") Korowicka, of Poland, were both skaters; Jana was on the Polish team at the 1976 Winter Olympics. Anni's brother Jan and sister Agnes are speed skaters, too.

Friesinger currently lives in Salzburg, Austria, but is married with former Dutch skater Ids Postma and is planning to move to the Netherlands to live with Postma on his farm.

Sports merits

Championships

Anni Friesinger has won four Olympic medals; gold at the 1500 m in the 2002 Winter Olympics and the team pursuit in the 2006 Winter Olympics and bronze at the 3000 m in the 1998 Winter Olympics and the 1000 m in the 2006 Winter Olympics. She managed to qualify for the German speed skating team in five events at the 2006 Winter Olympics: the team pursuit and the individual races at 1000 m, 1500 m, 3000 m, and 5000 meters. However, she failed to win gold in any individual events.

As well as being a five-time European Allround Champion and three time, World Allround Champion, Anni Friesinger has won numerous titles in the World Single Distance Championships. Although she originally specialized in the longer distances, she also won the World Sprint Championships in 2007. In this, Friesinger became the fifth skater in history to be a World Champion in both Allround and Sprint disciplines (along with Sylvia Burka, CAN (1976 and 1977); Eric Heiden, U.S. (1977 and 1977); Natalya Petrusyova, URS (1980 and 1982); and Karin Kania-Enke, GDR (1980 and 1982)).

Records

Friesinger has set the world record at the 1500 m distance three times during her career, but the record has since been superseded by Canadian competitor Cindy Klassen. The Olympic record, however—1:54.02—still belongs to Friesinger, and was set 20 February 2002 during her winning run at the 2002 Winter Olympics in Salt Lake City.

Non-sport activities

Anni Friesinger has done some modeling work as a sideline, and she has appeared as a swimsuit model in several publications and in less than that in the wide-circulation German magazine Stern. Anni is also known for her particularly powerful thighs, as befits a champion speed skater. She is a physically-attractive woman, and is somewhat of a sex symbol. Hence, she has acquired the humorous nickname of "Super Sexy Anni".

Autobiography

• Mein Leben, mein Sport, meine besten Fitness-Tipps ("My Life, My Sport, My Best Fitness Tips"). March 2004, Goldmann. ISBN 3-442-39059-1 (German)

External links

• Anni Friesinger's official homepage (German) and (Dutch)
• Anni Friesinger biography and result listings – At SkateResults.com
• Anni Friesinger Fan Site – At SkateLog.com, edited by Kathie Fry
• Photos of Anni Friesinger – At Lars Hagen's DESG Photo website

Awards
Preceded by Jochem Uytdehaage	Oscar Mathisen Award 2003	Succeeded by Chad Hedrick