Sabine Becker

Sabine Becker ( born August 13, 1959 in Karl- Marx-Stadt ) is a former German speed skater. Your home club was the SC Dynamo Berlin and later the Berlin Schlittschuhclub.

They won at the 1980 Winter Olympics in Lake Placid for the German Democratic Republic ( East Germany) starting a silver medal in the 1500 meters and a bronze in the 3000 meters. On both routes they had previously also won the discharged in December 1979 GDR championships in 1980, at the World Championships she was in the 1980 all-around became fifth.

After she had then retired for health reasons from competitive sport, she left the GDR in October 1986 and settled in West Berlin. Two years later she began again with the active training. At the German Championships in 1989 and 1990, she took on various individual routes and in the all around total of four second places and one third place. Your best international placement after their comeback was a fourth place over 3000 meters at the World Cup kick-off in November 1989 in Berlin.