Jenny Wolf

Jenny Wolf
Personal information
Born (1979-01-31) 31 January 1979 (age 45)
East Berlin, East Germany [1]
Height1.72 m (5 ft 8 in)
Weight72 kg (159 lb)
Sport
Country Germany
SportSpeed skating
Retired2014
Medal record
Women's speed skating
Representing  Germany
Olympic Games
Silver medal – second place 2010 Vancouver 500 m
World Sprint Championships
Gold medal – first place 2008 Heerenveen Sprint
Silver medal – second place 2009 Moscow Sprint
Bronze medal – third place 2010 Obihiro Sprint
World Single Distance Championships
Gold medal – first place 2007 Salt Lake City 500 m
Gold medal – first place 2008 Nagano 500 m
Gold medal – first place 2009 Vancouver 500 m
Gold medal – first place 2011 Inzell 500 m

Jenny Wolf (born 31 January 1979) is a former German speed skater. On 10 March 2007 at the ISU World Single Distances Speed Skating Championships in Salt Lake City, Utah, she broke the world record for the women's 500 m in her second race. She finished sixth on the 500 m at the 2006 Winter Olympics of Turin, and tenth on the same distance in 2002.

Wolf won the Speed Skating World Cup in the 2005–06 season on the 500 m. Her favorite distance is the 100 m, but this is not an Olympic event.

Wolf won the silver medal at the 500 m at the 2010 Winter Olympics in Vancouver, five hundredths of a second after South Korean Lee Sang-hwa over two races. Wolf was the world record holder in the event at the time.

On 13 November 2010, Wolf won her 40th 500 m World Cup race, thereby breaking Bonnie Blair's record, who won 39 World Cup races on that distance.