Violetta Oblinger-Peters

Violetta Oblinger - Peters (born 14 October 1977 in Swords, Germany ) is an Austrian canoeist. It was 2008 Olympic bronze medalist in canoe slalom.

Life

Her father Wolfgang Peters was a three time world champion in the one - Canadians, an uncle was double vice world champion in kayaking. Her love for this sport discovered Violetta Peters, however, only when she acted as watcher, if her younger brother dahinpaddelte in the wake of his father. In 1994 she met while paddling in Lofer know the Austrian slalom canoeists Helmut Oblinger, 1999 they married. They live in Schärding, Upper Austria. 2003 closed Oblinger - Peters their economic, linguistic and cultural area studies at the University of Passau with the title Diplom- cultural studies from. Since fall 2004, she studied psychology at the University of Salzburg.

Violetta Peters in 1994 and 1995 German Champion of the juniors in the team competition. By 1996, she launched internationally for Germany and came at the 1995 European Junior Championships 17th place in one kayak. In 1997 she participated for the first time for Austria participated in an international championship and was 28th at the World Championships in Três Coroas. My biggest success was winning the bronze medal at the 2008 Olympic Games in Beijing. Previously they had to laboriously fight back to the top, after the beginning of 2008 an abnormal heart rhythm has been fixed by cardiac catheter intervention in the AKH Linz. After she became mother of a boy in 2009, she won at the World Championships in the same year in La Seu d' Urgell fifth. In the 2010 World Cup in Slovenia Tacen she reached the bronze medal behind her compatriot Corinna Kuhnle and Slovak overall World Cup champion Jana Dukátová.

Sporting successes

Olympic Games:

• Sydney Olympics 2000: 15th Place
• 2004 Athens Olympic Games: 12th Place
• Beijing 2008 Olympics: Bronze

World Championships:

European Championships:

World Cup:

• World Cup Tacen 2001: 3rd place
• World Cup Tacen 2002: 2nd place
• World Cup 2002: 5th Place
• World Cup 2003: 5th Place
• World Cup Final Bratislava 2003: 3rd place
• World Cup 2007: 3rd place
• World Cup 2008: 3rd place

Best world ranking: 3rd place (2003)

National Achievements:

• Nine times Austrian Champion
• Upper Austrian " Athlete of the Year " 2000

Awards

• 2006: Golden Medal of Merit of the Republic of Austria