Andrea Ehrig-Mitscherlich, Date of Birth, Place of Birth

    

Andrea Ehrig-Mitscherlich

German speed skater

Date of Birth: 01-Dec-1960

Place of Birth: Dresden, Saxony, Germany

Profession: speed skater

Nationality: Germany

Zodiac Sign: Sagittarius


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About Andrea Ehrig-Mitscherlich

  • Andrea Ehrig-Mitscherlich (née Mitscherlich, also known as Schöne-Mitscherlich, born 1 December 1960) is a retired East German speed skater.
  • She was one of the world's best long-distance skaters in the 1980s. Ehrig was born Andrea Mitscherlich in Dresden, Saxony, East Germany.
  • At the 1976 Olympics in Innsbruck, as a 15-year-old, she won a silver medal in the 3000 m event, just one one-hundredth of a second ahead of Lisbeth Korsmo who won bronze.
  • At the 1980 Olympics in Lake Placid she came fourth in the 3000 metres.
  • Four years later at the 1984 Olympics in Sarajevo, competing under her first married name of Schöne-Mitscherlich, she won silver in both the 1000 and the 1500 m and became Olympic champion in the 3000 metres.
  • In 1988, at her fourth and final Olympic Games in Calgary, competing as Andrea Ehrig, she won two more silver medals in the long distances, and a bronze medal in the 1500 metres.
  • She became European champion five times and World Champion twice, in 1983 and 1985.
  • Between 1983 and 1987 she set 10 world records in 1500–10,000 m events.Ehrig was married twice.
  • After the 1980 Winter Olympics, she married the rower Ingolf Schöne and towards the end of that year, it was announced that she was expecting their child.
  • She married a second time in 1985 to fellow Olympic speed skater Andreas Ehrig.Personal bests: 500 m – 40.71 (1988) 1000 m – 1:19.32 (1988) 1500 m – 2:01.00 (1986) 3000 m – 4:12.09 (1988) 5000 m – 7:17.12 (1988)

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