Judith Hesse

Judith Hesse ( born September 3, 1982 in Erfurt ) is a German speed skater specializing in short-haul routes.

Judith Hesse starts for the Ice Club Erfurt. It was until 2002 by Peter Wild, since coached by Stephan Gneupel, Gianni Romme and since 2014 Gunda Niemann- Stirnemann. In 2002 she was both in the all around, and as a team at the Junior World Championships in Collalbo third parties. Your World Cup debut in 2003 in Inzell.

Your best rankings were a fifth and a seventh place on the 100 - meter course, in the season 2003/ 04 she was here in the World Cup and fifth. Once she was German Champion ( 2006, Sprint -around ), twice runner-up and third six times. Usually they stood nationally so far in the shadow of its competitors Sabine peoples, Jenny Wolf, Monique Garbrecht - Nordenfeldt and Anni Friesinger. At the Olympic Winter Games in Turin in 2006 she went to over the two short distances, but could reach no appreciable placement.

Your parade route are the non-Olympic 100 meters. Here it reached in December 2006 in Nagano her first World Cup victory. But even on the 500 meters she performs well. She also runs the 1000 meters, but actually you are too long and on which it has frequent problems due to lack of cornering technique. Nevertheless, they reached their best finish of the 1000 meters, when she latched on to a 11th place at the World Cup in Harbin in early December 2006.

Essent ISU World Cup rankings

(Updated: November 24, 2009)