Susi Erdmann
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Birth name | Susi-Lisa Erdmann | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Born | Blankenburg, Bezirk Magdeburg, East Germany | 29 January 1968|||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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Country | East Germany Germany | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Sport | Luge Bobsleigh | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Event(s) | Women's singles Mixed team Two-woman | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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Medal record
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Susi-Lisa Erdmann (later Plankensteiner, born 29 January 1968) is an
Winter Olympics, she won two medals in the women's singles luge event with a silver in 1994 and a bronze in 1992, and a bronze at the inaugural two-women bobsleigh event in 2002. She is one of only two people to ever win a medal in both bobsleigh and luge at the Winter Olympics; Italy's Gerda Weissensteiner
is the other.
Luge career
Beside the Olympics in luge, Erdmann won ten medals at the
Luge World Cup
title in women's singles twice (1990–91, 1991–92).
Bobsleigh career
Erdmann switched to bobsleigh in 1998, competing both at the Winter Olympics and the
Bobsleigh World Cup championships for the 2001-2 and 2002-3 seasons. Her coach was Wolfgang Hoppe
, who won several medals in bobsleigh during the 1980s and 1990s when he competed for both the East Germans and the Germans following 1990 reunification.
Other activities
Erdmann is a soldier in the rank of a
Hauptfeldwebel and has been stationed in Munich. It was announced on 7 September 2009 FIL website that Erdmann had married Italian luger Gerhard Plankensteiner on 28 August 2009. Plankensteiner won a bronze in the men's doubles event at the 2006 Winter Olympics in Turin and gold in the same event at the 2009 world championships in Lake Placid
.
Bobsleigh career highlights
- Olympic Winter Games
- 2002 – Salt Lake City, 3rd with Nicole Herschmann
- World Championships
- 2001 – Calgary, 3rd with Tanja Hess
- 2003 – Anne Dietrich
- 2004 – Königssee, 1st with Kristina Bader
- European Championships
- 2006 – Anne Dietrich
- World Cup Single Events
- 2001/2002 – Winterberg, 2nd with Birgit Brodbeck
- 2001/2002 – Winterberg, 2nd with Birgit Brodbeck
- 2001/2002 – Königssee, 2nd with Tanja Hess
- 2001/2002 – Königssee, 1st with Birgit Brodbeck
- 2001/2002 – Igls, 2nd with Tanja Hess
- 2001/2002 – Igls, 2nd with Birgit Brodbeck
- 2001/2002 – Calgary, 1st with Tanja Hess
- 2001/2002 – Calgary, 1st with Nicole Herschmann
- 2002/2003 – Calgary, 3rd with Tanja Hess
- 2002/2003 – Anne Dietrich
- 2002/2003 – Anne Dietrich
- 2002/2003 – Anne Dietrich
- 2002/2003 – Lake Placid, 2nd with Tanja Hess
- 2002/2003 – Anne Dietrich
- 2002/2003 – Anne Dietrich
- 2003/2004 – Calgary, 2nd with Kristina Bader
- 2003/2004 – Calgary, 2nd with Nicole Herschmann
- 2003/2004 – Lake Placid, 2nd with Nicole Herschmann
- 2003/2004 – Lake Placid, 1st with Kristina Bader
- 2003/2004 – Anne Dietrich
- 2004/2005 – Anne Dietrich
- 2004/2005 – Anja Schneiderheinze
- 2004/2005 – Anne Dietrich
- 2004/2005 – Anne Dietrich
- 2004/2005 – Lake Placid, 2nd with Berit Wiacker
- 2005/2006 – Anne Dietrich
- 2005/2006 – Anne Dietrich
References
- 1998 luge women's singles results
- Bobsleigh two-woman Olympic medalists since 2002 Archived 30 September 2003 at the Wayback Machine
- Bobsleigh two-woman world championship medalists since 2000 at the Wayback Machine (archived 5 November 2011)
- Susi-Lisa Erdmann at the Fédération Internationale de Bobsleigh et de Tobogganing
- Susi Erdmann and Gerhard Plankensteiner send their greetings as a married couple. at the Fédération Internationale de Luge de Course(7 September 2009 article accessed 11 September 2009
- Fuzilogik Sports – Winter Olympic results – Women's luge at the Wayback Machine (archived 10 June 2015)
- Hickoksports.com results on Olympic champions in luge and skeleton. at the Wayback Machine (archived 30 June 2007)
- Hickok sports information on World champions in luge and skeleton. at the Wayback Machine (archived 29 May 2007)
- List of European luge champions (in German)
- List of two-woman bobsleigh World Cup champions since 1995 at the Wayback Machine (archived 5 November 2011)
- List of women's singles luge World Cup champions since 1978. at the Wayback Machine (archived 6 February 2008)
- Official website (in German)
- Picture of Erdmann (in German)
External links
- Susi-Lisa Erdmann at the International Bobsleigh & Skeleton Federation
- Susi-Lisa Erdmann at Olympics.com
- Susi-Lisa Erdmann at Olympic.org (archived)
- Susi Erdmann at Olympedia
- Susi Erdmann at IMDb