Anni Friesinger-Postma

Anni Friesinger-Postma is a German former speed skater, born on 11 January 1977 into a skating family: her father Georg Friesinger and her Polish mother Jana Korowicka both skated, and her brother Jan and sister Agnes also skated. She won five Olympic medals, gold in the 1500 metres at the 2002 Winter Olympics and in the team pursuit in 2006 and 2010, plus bronze in the 3000 metres in 1998 and the 1000 metres in 2006. She was a five-time European Allround champion and three-time World Allround champion, and won the World Sprint Championships in 2007, becoming the fifth skater to be world champion in both allround and sprint. She retired in July 2010 after treatment for severe cartilage damage in her right knee.