André Hoffmann (speed skater)
 André Hoffmann in 1983 | |||||||||||||||
| Personal information | |||||||||||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Nationality | German | ||||||||||||||
| Born | August 11, 1961 East Berlin, East Germany | ||||||||||||||
| Height | 1.87 m (6 ft 2 in) | ||||||||||||||
| Weight | 80 kg (176 lb) | ||||||||||||||
| Sport | |||||||||||||||
| Country |  East Germany Germany | ||||||||||||||
| Sport | Speed skating | ||||||||||||||
| Club | SC Dynamo Berlin | ||||||||||||||
| Achievements and titles | |||||||||||||||
| Personal best(s) | 500 m: 37.40 (1983) 1000 m: 1:13.82 (1986) 1500 m: 1:52.06 (1988) 3000 m: 4:03.31 (1985) 5000 m: 6:56.25 (1984) 10 000 m: 15:00.43 (1984) | ||||||||||||||
Medal record
| |||||||||||||||
André Hoffmann (born August 11, 1961 in East Berlin) is a former German Speed skater who made a huge step forwards in the 1987–1988 season and won two 1500 metres races in the World Cup. It was even though highly surprising that he took gold medal in the 1500 m at the 1988 Olympics in Calgary. He beat the American Eric Flaim with six hundreds of a second and set a new world record with 1:52.06
World records
| Discipline | Time | Date | Location |
|---|---|---|---|
| 3000 m | 4.03,31 | January 12, 1985 | Davos |
| Small combination | 161.158 | January 13, 1985 | Davos |
| 1500 m | 1.52,06 | February 20, 1988 | Calgary |
Source: SpeedSkatingStats.com[1]
References
- ^ "André Hoffmann". SpeedSkatingStats.com. Retrieved 29 August 2012.
External links
|
 | This biographical article on a speed skater in Germany is a stub. You can help Wikipedia by expanding it. |
Categories:
- German male speed skaters
- Olympic speed skaters of East Germany
- Olympic gold medalists for East Germany
- Speed skaters at the 1984 Winter Olympics
- Speed skaters at the 1988 Winter Olympics
- Sportspeople from Berlin
- People from East Berlin
- 1961 births
- Living people
- Olympic medalists in speed skating
- Former world record holders in speed skating
- German speed skating biography stubs
- Medalists at the 1988 Winter Olympics