Susi Erdmann
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Susi Erdmann (sometimes shown as Susi-Lisa Erdmann, born 29 January 1968 in Blankenburg, Saxony-Anhalt
Saxony-Anhalt
Saxony-Anhalt is a landlocked state of Germany. Its capital is Magdeburg and it is surrounded by the German states of Lower Saxony, Brandenburg, Saxony, and Thuringia.Saxony-Anhalt covers an area of...

) is an East German-German
Germany
Germany , officially the Federal Republic of Germany , is a federal parliamentary republic in Europe. The country consists of 16 states while the capital and largest city is Berlin. Germany covers an area of 357,021 km2 and has a largely temperate seasonal climate...

 luge
Luge
A Luge is a small one- or two-person sled on which one sleds supine and feet-first. Steering is done by flexing the sled's runners with the calf of each leg or exerting opposite shoulder pressure to the seat. Racing sleds weigh 21-25 kilograms for singles and 25-30 kilograms for doubles. Luge...

r and bobsledder who competed from 1977 to 1998 in luge
Luge
A Luge is a small one- or two-person sled on which one sleds supine and feet-first. Steering is done by flexing the sled's runners with the calf of each leg or exerting opposite shoulder pressure to the seat. Racing sleds weigh 21-25 kilograms for singles and 25-30 kilograms for doubles. Luge...

, then since 1999 in bobsleigh
Bobsleigh
Bobsleigh or bobsled is a winter sport in which teams of two or four make timed runs down narrow, twisting, banked, iced tracks in a gravity-powered sled that are combined to calculate the final score....

. Competing in five Winter Olympics, she won two medals in the women's singles luge event with a silver in 1994
1994 Winter Olympics
The 1994 Winter Olympics, officially known as the XVII Olympic Winter Games, was a winter multi-sport event celebrated from 12 to 27 February 1994 in and around Lillehammer, Norway. Lillehammer failed to win the bid for the 1992 event. Lillehammer was awarded the games in 1988, after having beat...

 and a bronze in 1992
1994 Winter Olympics
The 1994 Winter Olympics, officially known as the XVII Olympic Winter Games, was a winter multi-sport event celebrated from 12 to 27 February 1994 in and around Lillehammer, Norway. Lillehammer failed to win the bid for the 1992 event. Lillehammer was awarded the games in 1988, after having beat...

, and a bronze at the inaugural two-women bobsleigh
Bobsleigh
Bobsleigh or bobsled is a winter sport in which teams of two or four make timed runs down narrow, twisting, banked, iced tracks in a gravity-powered sled that are combined to calculate the final score....

 event in 2002
2002 Winter Olympics
The 2002 Winter Olympics, officially the XIX Olympic Winter Games, were a winter multi-sport event that was celebrated in February 2002 in and around Salt Lake City, Utah, United States. Approximately 2,400 athletes from 77 nations participated in 78 events in fifteen disciplines, held throughout...

. She is one of only two people to ever win a medal in both bobsleigh
Bobsleigh at the Winter Olympics
Bobsleigh has been contested at the Winter Olympic Games since the first Winter Games in 1924, with the exception of the 1960 games in Squaw Valley when the organizing committee decided not to build a track in order to reduce expenses. Other than that exception, the four-man competition has been...

 and luge at the Winter Olympics
Luge at the Winter Olympics
Luge was introduced to the Winter Olympic Games in 1964, with both men's and women's events and a doubles event. Doubles is technically a mixed event, but is almost always competed by a team of two men...

 (Italy
Italy
Italy , officially the Italian Republic languages]] under the European Charter for Regional or Minority Languages. In each of these, Italy's official name is as follows:;;;;;;;;), is a unitary parliamentary republic in South-Central Europe. To the north it borders France, Switzerland, Austria and...

's Gerda Weissensteiner
Gerda Weissensteiner
Gerda Weissensteiner is an Italian luger and bobsleigh pilot who has competed from the late 1980s to 2006...

 is the other.).

Luge career

Beside the Olympics in luge, Erdmann won ten medals at the FIL World Luge Championships, including seven golds (Women's singles: 1989
FIL World Luge Championships 1989
The FIL World Luge Championships 1989 took place in Winterberg, West Germany. The mixed team event consisting of two separate runs each in men's singles, two separate runs each in women's singles, and one run in men's doubles debutted.-Men's singles:...

, 1991
FIL World Luge Championships 1991
The FIL World Luge Championships 1991 took place in Winterberg, Germany for the second time, having previously hosted the event in 1989. It also marked the first time East Germany and West Germany competed as a unified German team.-Men's singles:...

, 1997
FIL World Luge Championships 1997
The FIL World Luge Championships 1997 took place in Igls, Austria for the third time after previously hosting the event in 1977 and 1987.-Men's singles:-Women's singles:-Men's doubles:-Mixed team:-Medal table:-References:****...

; Mixed team: 1990
FIL World Luge Championships 1990
-Men's singles:Hackl becomes the first person to win the world championships in consecutive years in this event.-Women's singles:-Men's doubles:-Mixed team:-Medal table:-References:****...

, 1991
FIL World Luge Championships 1991
The FIL World Luge Championships 1991 took place in Winterberg, Germany for the second time, having previously hosted the event in 1989. It also marked the first time East Germany and West Germany competed as a unified German team.-Men's singles:...

, 1993
FIL World Luge Championships 1993
The FIL World Luge Championships 1993 took place in Calgary, Alberta, Canada for the second time, having previously hosted the event in 1990.-Men's singles:Suckow is the first American to win a championship at the World or Winter Olympic level....

, 1995
FIL World Luge Championships 1995
-Men's singles:-Women's singles:-Men's doubles:-Mixed team:-Medal table:-References:****...

) and three silvers (Women's singles: 1995, 1996
FIL World Luge Championships 1996
-Men's singles:-Women's singles:-Men's doubles:-Mixed team:-Medal table:-References:****...

; Mixed team: 1989). She also won six medals at the FIL European Luge Championships, including five golds (Women's singles: 1990
FIL European Luge Championships 1990
The FIL European Luge Championships 1990 took place in Igls, Austria for a second time after hosting the event previously in 1951.-Men's singles:-Women's singles:-Men's doubles:-Mixed team:-Medal table:-References:****...

, 1992
FIL European Luge Championships 1992
The FIL European Luge Championships 1992 took place in Winterberg, Germany for the second time after hosting the event previously in 1982. It marked the first time East Germany and West Germany competed as a unified German team since the country reunified in 1990 and in the championships since...

; Mixed team: 1990, 1992, 1998
FIL European Luge Championships 1998
The FIL European Luge Championships 1998 took place in Oberhof, Germany for the second time having hosted the event previously in 1979.-Men's singles:-Women's singles:-Men's doubles:-Mixed team:-Medal table:-References:****...

) and one bronze (Women's singles: 1998). Erdmann won the overall Luge World Cup title in women's singles twice (1990-1, 1991-2).

Bobsleigh career

Erdmann switched to bobsleigh in 1998, competing both at the Winter Olympics and the FIBT World Championships
FIBT World Championships
The FIBT World Championships, part of the Fédération Internationale de Bobsleigh et de Tobogganing , have taken place on an annual basis in non-Winter Olympic years since 1930. A two-man event was included in 1931 with a combined championship occurring in 1947...

. She won three medals in the two-woman event at the World Championships
FIBT World Championships
The FIBT World Championships, part of the Fédération Internationale de Bobsleigh et de Tobogganing , have taken place on an annual basis in non-Winter Olympic years since 1930. A two-man event was included in 1931 with a combined championship occurring in 1947...

, with two gold (2003
FIBT World Championships 2003
The FIBT World Championships 2003 took place in Lake Placid, New York, United States , Winterberg, Germany , and Nagano, Japan . Lake Placid hosted the championship event for the eighth time, doing so previously in 1949, 1961, 1969, 1973, 1978, 1983, and 1997...

, 2004
FIBT World Championships 2004
The FIBT World Championships 2004 took place in Königssee, Germany for the fourth time, doing so previously in 1979, 1986, and 1990 . This marked the first time all the events were in a single location at the championships since the 1996 event in Calgary, Alberta, Canada.-Two man:-Four man:-Two...

) and one bronze (2001
FIBT World Championships 2001
The FIBT World Championships 2001 took place in St. Moritz, Switzerland and Calgary, Alberta, Canada...

). Erdmann also won the overall two-woman Bobsleigh World Cup championships for the 2001-2 and 2002-3 seasons. Her coach was Wolfgang Hoppe
Wolfgang Hoppe
Wolfgang Hoppe is an East German former decathlete, bob pilot and 36-time international medal winner who competed from the early 1980s to the late 1990s...

, 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
Hauptfeldwebel
In the German military, the appointment of Hauptfeldwebel was the German equivalent of a Commonwealth Company Sergeant Major or American Company First Sergeant. There was one such non-commissioned officer in every infantry company, artillery battery, cavalry squadron, etc...

 and has been stationed in Munich. It was announced on the 7 September 2009 FIL website that Erdmann had married Italian
Italy
Italy , officially the Italian Republic languages]] under the European Charter for Regional or Minority Languages. In each of these, Italy's official name is as follows:;;;;;;;;), is a unitary parliamentary republic in South-Central Europe. To the north it borders France, Switzerland, Austria and...

 luger Gerhard Plankensteiner
Gerhard Plankensteiner
Gerhard Plankensteiner is an Italian national of Austrian descent luger who competed from 1986 to 2010...

 on 28 August 2009. Plankensteiner won a bronze in the men's doubles event at the 2006 Winter Olympics
2006 Winter Olympics
The 2006 Winter Olympics, officially known as the XX Olympic Winter Games, was a winter multi-sport event which was celebrated in Turin, Italy from February 10, 2006, through February 26, 2006. This marked the second time Italy hosted the Olympic Winter Games, the first being the VII Olympic Winter...

 in Turin
Turin
Turin is a city and major business and cultural centre in northern Italy, capital of the Piedmont region, located mainly on the left bank of the Po River and surrounded by the Alpine arch. The population of the city proper is 909,193 while the population of the urban area is estimated by Eurostat...

 and gold in the same event at the 2009 world championships
FIL World Luge Championships 2009
The FIL World Luge Championships 2009 ran on 1–8 February 2009 at the bobsleigh, luge, and skeleton track in Lake Placid, New York, United States for the second time after having hosted the event in 1983...

 in Lake Placid
Lake Placid, New York
Lake Placid is a village in the Adirondack Mountains in Essex County, New York, United States. As of the 2000 census, the village had a population of 2,638....

.

Bobsleigh Career highlights

Olympic Winter Games
2002 - Salt Lake City, 3rd with Nicole Herschmann
Nicole Herschmann
Nicole Herschmann is a German bobsledder who has competed since 2001. Competing in two Winter Olympics, she won a bronze medal in the two-woman event at Salt Lake City in 2002....


World Championships:
2001 - Calgary
Calgary
Calgary is a city in the Province of Alberta, Canada. It is located in the south of the province, in an area of foothills and prairie, approximately east of the front ranges of the Canadian Rockies...

, 3rd with Tanja Hess
Tanja Hess
Tanja Hess is a German bobsledder who competed in the late 1990s and the early 2000s. She won a bronze medal in the two-woman event at the 2001 FIBT World Championships in Calgary.-References:*...

2003 - Winterberg
Winterberg
Winterberg is a town in the Hochsauerland district of North Rhine-Westphalia, Germany and a major winter sport resort of the Wintersport Arena Sauerland.-Geography:...

, 1st with Anne Dietrich
2004 - Königssee
Königssee
The Königssee is a lake located in the extreme southeast Berchtesgadener Land district of the German state of Bavaria, near the border with Austria...

, 1st with Kristina Bader
Kristina Bader
Kristina Bader is a Soviet-born German bobsledder who competed from 2001 to 2004. She won a gold medal in the two-woman event at the 2004 FIBT World Championships in Königssee....


European Championships:
2006 - St.Moritz, 3rd with Anne Dietrich

World Cup Single Events:
2001/2002 - Winterberg
Winterberg
Winterberg is a town in the Hochsauerland district of North Rhine-Westphalia, Germany and a major winter sport resort of the Wintersport Arena Sauerland.-Geography:...

, 2nd with Birgit Brodbeck
2001/2002 - Winterberg
Winterberg
Winterberg is a town in the Hochsauerland district of North Rhine-Westphalia, Germany and a major winter sport resort of the Wintersport Arena Sauerland.-Geography:...

, 2nd with Birgit Brodbeck
2001/2002 - Königssee
Königssee
The Königssee is a lake located in the extreme southeast Berchtesgadener Land district of the German state of Bavaria, near the border with Austria...

, 2nd with Tanja Hess
Tanja Hess
Tanja Hess is a German bobsledder who competed in the late 1990s and the early 2000s. She won a bronze medal in the two-woman event at the 2001 FIBT World Championships in Calgary.-References:*...

2001/2002 - Königssee
Königssee
The Königssee is a lake located in the extreme southeast Berchtesgadener Land district of the German state of Bavaria, near the border with Austria...

, 1st with Birgit Brodbeck
2001/2002 - Igls, 2nd with Tanja Hess
Tanja Hess
Tanja Hess is a German bobsledder who competed in the late 1990s and the early 2000s. She won a bronze medal in the two-woman event at the 2001 FIBT World Championships in Calgary.-References:*...

2001/2002 - Igls, 2nd with Birgit Brodbeck
2001/2002 - Calgary
Calgary
Calgary is a city in the Province of Alberta, Canada. It is located in the south of the province, in an area of foothills and prairie, approximately east of the front ranges of the Canadian Rockies...

, 1st with Tanja Hess
Tanja Hess
Tanja Hess is a German bobsledder who competed in the late 1990s and the early 2000s. She won a bronze medal in the two-woman event at the 2001 FIBT World Championships in Calgary.-References:*...

2001/2002 - Calgary
Calgary
Calgary is a city in the Province of Alberta, Canada. It is located in the south of the province, in an area of foothills and prairie, approximately east of the front ranges of the Canadian Rockies...

, 1st with Nicole Herschmann
Nicole Herschmann
Nicole Herschmann is a German bobsledder who has competed since 2001. Competing in two Winter Olympics, she won a bronze medal in the two-woman event at Salt Lake City in 2002....

2002/2003 - Calgary
Calgary
Calgary is a city in the Province of Alberta, Canada. It is located in the south of the province, in an area of foothills and prairie, approximately east of the front ranges of the Canadian Rockies...

, 3rd with Tanja Hess
Tanja Hess
Tanja Hess is a German bobsledder who competed in the late 1990s and the early 2000s. She won a bronze medal in the two-woman event at the 2001 FIBT World Championships in Calgary.-References:*...

2002/2003 - Park City
Park City, Utah
Park City is a town in Summit and Wasatch counties in the U.S. state of Utah. It is considered to be part of the Wasatch Back. The city is southeast of downtown Salt Lake City and from Salt Lake City's east edge of Sugar House along Interstate 80. The population was 7,558 at the 2010 census...

, 2nd with Anne Dietrich
2002/2003 - Park City
Park City, Utah
Park City is a town in Summit and Wasatch counties in the U.S. state of Utah. It is considered to be part of the Wasatch Back. The city is southeast of downtown Salt Lake City and from Salt Lake City's east edge of Sugar House along Interstate 80. The population was 7,558 at the 2010 census...

, 2nd with Anne Dietrich
2002/2003 - Lake Placid
Lake Placid, New York
Lake Placid is a village in the Adirondack Mountains in Essex County, New York, United States. As of the 2000 census, the village had a population of 2,638....

, 2nd with Anne Dietrich
2002/2003 - Lake Placid
Lake Placid, New York
Lake Placid is a village in the Adirondack Mountains in Essex County, New York, United States. As of the 2000 census, the village had a population of 2,638....

, 2nd with Tanja Hess
Tanja Hess
Tanja Hess is a German bobsledder who competed in the late 1990s and the early 2000s. She won a bronze medal in the two-woman event at the 2001 FIBT World Championships in Calgary.-References:*...

2002/2003 - Igls, 1st with Anne Dietrich
2002/2003 - Igls, 1st with Anne Dietrich
2003/2004 - Calgary
Calgary
Calgary is a city in the Province of Alberta, Canada. It is located in the south of the province, in an area of foothills and prairie, approximately east of the front ranges of the Canadian Rockies...

, 2nd with Kristina Bader
Kristina Bader
Kristina Bader is a Soviet-born German bobsledder who competed from 2001 to 2004. She won a gold medal in the two-woman event at the 2004 FIBT World Championships in Königssee....

2003/2004 - Calgary
Calgary
Calgary is a city in the Province of Alberta, Canada. It is located in the south of the province, in an area of foothills and prairie, approximately east of the front ranges of the Canadian Rockies...

, 2nd with Nicole Herschmann
Nicole Herschmann
Nicole Herschmann is a German bobsledder who has competed since 2001. Competing in two Winter Olympics, she won a bronze medal in the two-woman event at Salt Lake City in 2002....

2003/2004 - Lake Placid
Lake Placid, New York
Lake Placid is a village in the Adirondack Mountains in Essex County, New York, United States. As of the 2000 census, the village had a population of 2,638....

, 2nd with Nicole Herschmann
Nicole Herschmann
Nicole Herschmann is a German bobsledder who has competed since 2001. Competing in two Winter Olympics, she won a bronze medal in the two-woman event at Salt Lake City in 2002....

2003/2004 - Lake Placid
Lake Placid, New York
Lake Placid is a village in the Adirondack Mountains in Essex County, New York, United States. As of the 2000 census, the village had a population of 2,638....

, 1st with Kristina Bader
Kristina Bader
Kristina Bader is a Soviet-born German bobsledder who competed from 2001 to 2004. She won a gold medal in the two-woman event at the 2004 FIBT World Championships in Königssee....

2003/2004 - Lillehammer
Lillehammer
is a town and municipality in Oppland county, Norway, globally known for hosting the 1994 Winter Olympics. It is part of the traditional region of Gudbrandsdal. The administrative centre of the municipality is the town of Lillehammer. As of May 2011, the population of the town of Lillehammer was...

, 2nd with Anne Dietrich
2004/2005 - Winterberg
Winterberg
Winterberg is a town in the Hochsauerland district of North Rhine-Westphalia, Germany and a major winter sport resort of the Wintersport Arena Sauerland.-Geography:...

, 2nd with Anne Dietrich
2004/2005 - Cortina d'Ampezzo
Cortina d'Ampezzo
Cortina d'Ampezzo is a town and comune in the southern Alps located in Veneto, a region in Northern Italy. Located in the heart of the Dolomites in an alpine valley, it is a popular winter sport resort known for its ski-ranges, scenery, accommodations, shops and après-ski scene...

, 2nd with Anja Schneiderheinze
Anja Schneiderheinze
Anja Schneiderheinze-Stöckel is a German bobsledder who has competed since 2001. At the 2006 Winter Olympics in Turin, she won gold in the two-woman event with teammate Sandra Kiriasis....

2004/2005 - Cesana, 3rd with Anne Dietrich
2004/2005 - St. Moritz
St. Moritz
St. Moritz is a resort town in the Engadine valley in Switzerland. It is a municipality in the district of Maloja in the Swiss canton of Graubünden...

, 3rd with Anne Dietrich
2004/2005 - Lake Placid
Lake Placid, New York
Lake Placid is a village in the Adirondack Mountains in Essex County, New York, United States. As of the 2000 census, the village had a population of 2,638....

, 2nd with Berit Wiacker
Berit Wiacker
Berit Wiacker is a German bobsledder who has competed since 2002. She won two gold medals in the mixed bobsleigh-skeleton team event at the FIBT World Championships ....

2005/2006 - Cortina d'Ampezzo
Cortina d'Ampezzo
Cortina d'Ampezzo is a town and comune in the southern Alps located in Veneto, a region in Northern Italy. Located in the heart of the Dolomites in an alpine valley, it is a popular winter sport resort known for its ski-ranges, scenery, accommodations, shops and après-ski scene...

, 2nd with Anne Dietrich
2005/2006 - Königssee
Königssee
The Königssee is a lake located in the extreme southeast Berchtesgadener Land district of the German state of Bavaria, near the border with Austria...

, 1st with Anne Dietrich
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