Ute Oberhoffner

Ute Oberhoffner, née White ( born September 15, 1961 in Ilmenau) is a former German luger.

Ute Oberhoffner, whose father Peter White in the first half of the 1960s belonged to the Luge National Team of the GDR, launched for ASK forward Oberhof. It was back in 1971 Spartakiadesiegerin. In 1980 she was at the Junior European Championships Second. Aside from winning the East German championship 1985, she was subscribed in the following years almost to the bronze medal. 1983 and 1987 she was third. At the World Championships in 1986 at the European Championships Also at the 1984 Olympic Games in Sarajevo, she won bronze. Your most successful year in competitive sports was also their last. In 1988, she was at the European Championships in Koenigssee European champion at the Olympics in Calgary and Second. Added to this was the re winning the East championship. In the same year she was awarded the Patriotic Order of Merit in silver.

After her career, the graduate sports teacher worked in the field of social education. Since 1988 Ute Oberhoffner honorary citizen of Ilmenau in Thuringia and since 2004 the district mayor of Unterpörlitz. From 1990 to 2003 she was also the first chairman of the Thuringian sports youth. Because of their commitment, she received the highest awards of the German Sports Youth and Thüringisches 2003. It is committed to social causes in her home town of Ilmenau and is a member of the CDU faction of the City Council. Ute Oberhoffner committed to the "Association for Sport and adventure-oriented integrative social work eV " in youth work. On 27 April 2010 Ute Oberhoffner was awarded the Federal Cross of Merit.

She is married and has one daughter.