Anni Friesinger was born on January 11, 1977 in Bad Reichenhall, Upper Bavaria, Germany. She is a famous Speed Skater. She is a competitor for Germany. Her parents Georg Friesinger from Germany and Janina Korowicka from Poland, were both skaters. Anni has won several medals including, "Gold Medal" at Olympic Games of, "2002 Salt Lake City", "2006 Turin" and bronze in "1998 Nagano" and "2006, Turin".

Besides the Olympic winnings she is also a five-time European Allround Champion and three time, World Allround Champion. She has also won the title of "World Single Distance Championships".
In 2007, for longer distances she won the "World Sprint Championships". During her career Anni has also set the world record at the 1500 m distance three times, but later the record was broken by Canadia n competitor Cindy Klassen.

Anni has also done modeling as a sideline and appeared as a swimsuit model in several publications of famous German magazine "Stern" and also the famous magazine, "Maxim". Beside the title of a super skater she is also famous known as "Super Sexy Anni".

Why is she famous?

She is famously known as fifth skater in history to be a World Champion in both Allround and Sprint disciplines.

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Category: Sport Stars  - ( Sport Stars Archive)

Date Added: 20 May '09

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