Simone Opitz

Simone Opitz ( born July 3, 1963 in Sonneberg ) is a former German cross-country skier, who participated in international competitions 1985-1993. The starting for the SC motor Zella-Mehlis athlete achieved their best results over the longer distances in the free technique.

Sporting career

1985 Opitz first appeared at a World Cup competition. In Klingenthal she took over the 10 kilometers down the 18th. A week later she was able to place distance among the top ten in the Soviet Syktyvkar over the 20 kilometers. A year later celebrated Opitz at the triple success of the GDR in French Les Saisies 10-kilometer freestyle behind Gaby Nestler and Carola Jacob their first podium finish and then won the World Cup 20-kilometer freestyle in the Czech Nove Mesto na Moravě before her compatriot Gaby Nestler and Norwegian Marianne Dahlmo. In the overall World Cup Opitz occupied in their successful 1986 season in fifth place. In addition, she won this year, the GDR Championships over the 5 km and 10 km distance.

1987 Opitz missed at the Nordic World Ski Championships 1987 in Oberstdorf with the season of the GDR to five seconds, a medal and finished fourth. At the Olympic Winter Games in Calgary in 1988 they won both the season of the GDR as well as on the 20 km freestyle in fifth place. About the discharged in classical technique 5 km and 10 km distances, it was thirteenth and tenth. Also at the Nordic World Ski Championships 1991 in Val di Fiemme, they ran across the 10 km freestyle and with the German relay to fifth place. About the 30 km freestyle she was seventh.

The last major international event in which Simone Opitz took part in the Olympic Winter Games were in 1992 in Albertville. About the 30 km freestyle she could win the eighth. In pursuit competition they reached the twelfth place and with the German relay eighth.

On her last World Cup start she finished in March 1992 in the Norwegian Vang eleventh place on the 15-kilometer freestyle. In January 1993, Simone Opitz ended their international cross-country career with 19th place at the Continental Cup in Austria Admont.

Sporting successes

World Cup

National Championships

  • 2x DDR Champion in individual competitions
  • 1x DDR Champion Season
  • 3x German Champion Season
  • 1x DDR runner-up in individual competitions
  • 4x German Vice Champion in individual competitions
FIS Nordic World Ski Championships 1987 East Germany FIS Nordic World Ski Championships 1991 Vang, Oppland
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