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2002 Salt Lake City | Women's singles |
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2006 Turin | Women's singles |
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2000 St. Moritz | Women's singles |
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2001 Calgary | Women's singles |
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2003 Sigulda | Women's singles |
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2003 Sigulda | Mixed team |
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2005 Park City | Women's singles |
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2005 Park City | Mixed team |
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1997 Igls | Mixed team |
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2000 St. Moritz | Mixed team |
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2001 Calgary | Mixed team |
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1999 Königssee | Women's singles |
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1999 Königssee | Mixed team |
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2004 Nagano | Women's singles |
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1994-95 | Women's singles |
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1999-00 | Women's singles |
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2002-03 | Women's singles |
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2003-04 | Women's singles |
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1998-99 | Women's singles |
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2000-01 | Women's singles |
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2001-02 | Women's singles |
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2005-06 | Women's singles |
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2004-05 | Women's singles |
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1990 Igls | Mixed team |
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1992 Winterberg | Mixed team |
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2000 Winterberg | Women's singles |
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2000 Winterberg | Mixed team |
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2002 Altenberg | Women's singles |
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1992 Winterberg | Women's singles |
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2002 Altenberg | Mixed team |
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2004 Oberhof | Women's singles |
Sylke Otto (born 7 July 1969) is a German former luger who competed from 1991 to 2007. She was born in Karl-Marx-Stadt. Competing in three Winter Olympics, she won the gold medal in the women's singles event in 2002 and 2006.
Otto won twelve medals at the FIL World Luge Championships with six golds (Women's singles: 2000, 2001, 2003, 2005; Mixed team: 2003, 2005), three silvers (Mixed team: 1997, 2000, 2001), and three bronzes (Women's singles: 1999, 2004; Mixed team: 1999).
She also won eight medals at the FIL European Luge Championships with five golds (Women's singles: 2000, 2002; Mixed team: 1990, 1992, 2000), two silvers (Women's singles: 1992, Mixed team: 2002), and one bronze (Women's singles: 2004). Otto finished in the top three of the Luge World Cup standings every year from 1999 to 2006, winning the overall title four times (1994-5, 1999–2000, 2002–3, 2003–4). She won a record 37 World Cup races in total during her career.
She retired from the sport on 12 January 2007, partly in order to have children and partly because of a crash at Königssee, Germany, the previous week and witnessing another crash, by Russia's Albert DemtschenkoatOberhof, that same week. Otto had initially planned on retiring at the World Luge ChampionshipsinIgls, Austria (Located southeast of Innsbruck) in February, but the accidents changed her plans. She has one daughter, Sina, born on 29 May 2007. A retirement ceremony for Otto took place prior to the start of the women's singles event at the 2008 FIL World Luge ChampionshipsinOberhof, Germany on 25 January.
Otto was one of the torch bearers for the 2004 Summer OlympicsinAthens, Greece, as it traveled through Berlin, Germany.
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 Erika Lechner (ITA) Anna-Maria Müller (GDR) Margit Schumann (GDR) Vera Zozulya (URS) Steffi Martin (GDR) Steffi Walter (GDR) Doris Neuner (AUT) Gerda Weissensteiner (ITA) Silke Kraushaar (GER) Sylke Otto (GER) Sylke Otto (GER) Tatjana Hüfner (GER) Natalie Geisenberger (GER) Natalie Geisenberger (GER) Natalie Geisenberger (GER) |
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