Bettina Schmidt

Bettina Schmidt

Schmidt (second from left) in 1984.
Medal record Women's Luge Representing German Democratic Republic Olympic Games 1984 Sarajevo Women's singles World Cup Championships 1983-84 Women's singles 1979-80 Women's singles European Championships 1982 Winterberg Women's singles

Bettina Schmidt (2 June 1960 – 28 April 2019) was an East German luger who competed during the mid-1980s. She was born in Staßfurt, Saxony-Anhalt. She won the silver medal in the women's singles event at the 1984 Winter Olympics in Sarajevo. Schmidt also won a gold medal in the women's singles event at the 1982 FIL European Luge Championships in Winterberg, West Germany. She tied for the overall Luge World Cup championship in women's singles in 1983-4 with fellow East German Steffi Martin.

References

• Fuzilogik Sports - Winter Olympic results - Women's luge at the Wayback Machine (archived 2015-06-10)
• Hickoksports.com results on Olympic champions in luge and skeleton. at the Wayback Machine (archived 2007-06-30)
• Kluge, Volker. (2000). Das große Lexikon der DDR-Sportler. Berlin: Schwarzkopf & Schwarzkopf. (in German)
• List of European luge champions at the Wayback Machine (archived 2008-03-25) (in German)
• List of women's singles luge World Cup champions since 1978. at the Wayback Machine (archived 2008-02-06)
• Bettina Schmidt's obituary (in German)

External links

Media related to Bettina Schmidt at Wikimedia Commons