Olaf Zinke
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Nationality | German | ||||||||||||||
Born | 9 October 1966 Bad Muskau, East Germany | (age 57)||||||||||||||
Height | 182 cm (6 ft 0 in) | ||||||||||||||
Weight | 80 kg (176 lb) | ||||||||||||||
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Sport | Speed skating | ||||||||||||||
Club | SC Dynamo Berlin | ||||||||||||||
Turned pro | 1983 | ||||||||||||||
Retired | 1994 | ||||||||||||||
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Personal best(s) | 500 m: 37.74 (1990) 1000 m: 1:14.53 (1990) 1500 m: 1:53.64 (1993) 3000 m: 4:06.71 (1992) 5000 m: 7:04.23 (1988) 10 000 m: 15:00.6 (1988) | ||||||||||||||
Medal record
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Olaf Zinke (born 9 October 1966) is a former speed skater.
Zinke specialised in the 1,000 metres and 1,500 metres distances. In 1990, at a World Cup race in Helsinki he proved his skill at top level for the first time, finishing first in the 1,500 metres leaving Johann Olav Koss and Michael Hadschieff behind him, and the next day he won the 1,000 metres by outpacing Dan Jansen and Eric Flaim. He peaked again at the 1992 Winter Olympics in Albertville. Leaving the South Korean Kim Yoon-man behind by 0.01 seconds, Zinke won the 1,000 metres race and thereby the Olympic gold medal.
Personal records
[edit]Distance | Result | Date | Location |
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500 m | 37.74 | 10 March 1990 | Heerenveen |
1,000 m | 1:14.53 | 11 March 1990 | Heerenveen |
1,500 m | 1:53.64 | 5 December 1993 | Hamar |
3,000 m | 4:06.71 | 18 January 1992 | Davos |
5,000 m | 7:04.23 | 25 March 1988 | Medeo |
10,000 m | 15:00.6 | 26 March 1988 | Medeo |
Big combination | 165.219 | 26 March 1988 | Medeo |
Small combination | 165.248 | 25 March 1988 | Medeo |
Sprint combination | 151.880 | 17 March 1990 | Inzell |
Zinke has an Adelskalender score of 163.073 points.
References
[edit]- Olaf Zinke at SkateResults.com
- Olaf Zinke at DESG (Deutsche Eisschnelllauf Gemeinschaft) (in German)
Categories:
- 1966 births
- Living people
- People from Bad Muskau
- German male speed skaters
- Olympic speed skaters for Germany
- Speed skaters at the 1992 Winter Olympics
- Speed skaters at the 1994 Winter Olympics
- Olympic medalists in speed skating
- Medalists at the 1992 Winter Olympics
- Olympic gold medalists for Germany
- Sportspeople from Saxony
- 20th-century German sportspeople
- German Winter Olympic medalist stubs
- German speed skating biography stubs