Sabine Spitz

Sabine Spitz is a German cross-country mountain biker, born on 27 December 1971. She won the women's cross-country gold medal at the 2008 Summer Olympics, bronze at the 2004 Games and silver at the 2012 Games, and she became world champion in 2003. At the 2016 Summer Olympics she finished 19th. In March 2017 she raced her second eight-day Absa Cape Epic stage race in South Africa with partner Robyn de Groot; they were pre-race favourites in the women's category but Spitz crashed badly on two stages and the pair finished the 651 kilometre route in third place, after she and Yana Belomoina had finished second in 2016.