Bianca Walter
 Walter in 2012 | |
| Personal information | |
|---|---|
| Birth name | Bianca Walter |
| Nationality | German |
| Born | 31 March 1990 Dresden, East Germany[1] |
| Sport | |
| Sport | Short track speed skating |
Bianca Merker[2] (born Bianca Walter; 31 March 1990) is a German short track speed skater. She competed in the women's 500 metres at the 2018 Winter Olympics.[3]
Biography
[edit]Walter was born in 1990 in EV Dresden. She was the daughter of the former speed skater Skadi Walter and she was brought up in an enthusiastic family of skaters. Her mother was a successful skater[4] and her grandmother was a figure skating coach. Walter was on skates at the age of three and by age of nine, she experimented with the short track at the former ESC Dresden.
In 2006 she became a member of the German Ladies Short Track national team when she was 16 and she made her international debut in the 2006/07 World Cup season in Saguenay in Canada, The same year she competed in the Junior World Championships where she was beaten in the heats.[5] Walter won her first silver medal with German team at the European Championships in Turin.
References
[edit]- ^ "Bianca Walter". bianca-walter.de. Retrieved 10 February 2018.
- ^ "Dresdner Shorttrackerin Anna Seidel hofft auf einen guten Weltcup-Auftakt".
- ^ "Bianca Walter". Pyeongchang2018.com. Archived from the original on 21 April 2018. Retrieved 9 February 2018.
- ^ Evans, Hilary; Gjerde, Arild; Heijmans, Jeroen; Mallon, Bill; et al. "Skadi Walter". Olympics at Sports-Reference.com. Sports Reference LLC. Archived from the original on 18 April 2020. Retrieved 1 February 2018.
- ^ "Bianca Walter". shorttrack.wordpress.com (in German). Archived from the original on 13 July 2012. Retrieved 15 November 2011.
External links
[edit]- Bianca Walter at ShortTrackOnLine.info
- Bianca Walter at Olympics.com
- Bianca Walter at Olympedia
- Bianca Walter at the German Olympic Sports Confederation (in German)
