Anna FERNSTAEDT

Czech Republic

Skeleton

Date of Birth: 23 Nov 1996

Age: 25

Gender: Female

Place of birth: PRAGUE

Birth Country:

Czech Republic

Events and Medals
Records
Schedule
Bio
General Interest
Milestones

Events and Medals

Discipline	Event	Rank	Medal
Skeleton	Women	7

Schedule

Start Time	Location	Event	Status
	Yanqing National Sliding Centre	Women Official Training Heat 1	Finished
After Heat 1	Yanqing National Sliding Centre	Women Official Training Heat 2	Finished
	Yanqing National Sliding Centre	Women Official Training Heat 3	Finished
After Heat 3	Yanqing National Sliding Centre	Women Official Training Heat 4	Finished
	Yanqing National Sliding Centre	Women Official Training Heat 5	Finished
After Heat 5	Yanqing National Sliding Centre	Women Official Training Heat 6	Finished
	Yanqing National Sliding Centre	Women Heat 1	Finished
	Yanqing National Sliding Centre	Women Heat 2	Finished
	Yanqing National Sliding Centre	Women Heat 3	Finished
	Yanqing National Sliding Centre	Women Heat 4	Finished

Biographical Information

Highlights

Athlete:

Historical Results

Olympic Games
Rank	Event	Year	Location	Result
6	Women	2018	PyeongChang, KOR	00:03:28.040

World Championships
Rank	Event	Year	Location	Result
4	Women	2019	Whistler, BC, CAN	3:34.80
4	Women	2017	Koenigssee, GER	2:36.39
7	Women	2020	Altenberg, GER	3:56.50
10	Women	2021	Altenberg, GER	3:55.67

Junior World Championships
Rank	Event	Year	Location	Result
1	Women	2020	Winterberg, GER	1:59.41
1	Women	2019	Koenigssee, GER	1:45.89

World Cup Rankings
Season	Women
2021/22	16
2020/21	5
2019/20	9
2017/18	10
2016/17	8

World Cup - Best Achievements
Season	Women
2021/22	1 x 8th, 1 x 12th, 2 x 14th
2020/21	1 x 2nd, 1 x 4th, 1 x 7th
2019/20	2 x 7th, 1 x 8th, 2 x 11th

Ten Best World Cup Performances in Current Season
Rank	Event	Season	Location	Result
8	Women	2021/22	Altenberg, GER	2:00.10
12	Women	2021/22	Altenberg, GER	1:56.56
14	Women	2021/22	St. Moritz, SUI	2:19.72
14	Women	2021/22	Innsbruck, AUT	1:48.86
16	Women	2021/22	Winterberg, GER	1:57.58
16	Women	2021/22	Innsbruck, AUT	1:49.26
18	Women	2021/22	Sigulda, LAT	1:46.38
20	Women	2021/22	Winterberg, GER	1:55.28

Education:

Studying at the University of Finance and Administration in Prague. (olympics.com, 4 Nov 2021)

Languages spoken:

Czech

Coach:

National: Dawid Kupczyk (POL)
Personal: Jeff Pain (CAN), Andrzej Kupczyk (POL)

Other sports:

A promising gymnast. She also played volleyball, handball, swimming, and practised ballet twice a week. (olympics.com, 4 Nov 2021)

Debut:

2013 European Cup in Altenberg (Women's Skeleton - 5th)

National team:

2013

Start:

Did gymnastics for seven years, but after moving to Berchtesgaden in south-eastern Germany, opportunities in some of her other sports became limited and she picked up skiing. At 14, she tried skeleton for the first time. "Gymnastics is the basis of all sports. Thanks to it I know how to work with my body, and it helps me on the skeleton track." (olympics.com, 4 Nov 2021)

General Interest

GERMANY TO CZECH REPUBLIC
After the PyeongChang 2018 Olympic Winter Games, she switched allegiances to the land of her and her mother’s birth, Czech Republic, and also goes by the name Anna Fernstaedtova. Eligibility rules meant that she could compete in the World Cup during the 2018/19 season, and she competed instead on the developmental Intercontinental Cup circuit which she won. (olympics.com, 4 Nov 2021)

SOCIAL MEDIA INFLUENCER
Has over 13,000 Instagram followers. “I like Instagram the most, it’s the friendliest. The more active you are, the more interest you get for sponsors.” (olympics.com, 4 Nov 2021)

Milestones

Represented Germany in her Olympic Winter Games debut at PyeongChang 2018, finishing sixth.

Member of the bronze medal-winning mixed team at the 2017 World Championships( with Alexander Gassner, Andreea Grecu, Maria Adela Constantin, Richard Oelsner, and Marc Rademacher). Individually, she has four top-10 finishes, with a pair of fourth places (2017, 2019).

Three-time Junior World champion (2018, 2019, 2020) and one-time bronze medallist (2016). Only athlete ever to win three consecutive junior world championships. In 2016 and 2018, she competed for Germany, and in 2019 and 2020, she competed for Czech Republic.

Total of three World Cup podium finishes, with one silver medal (2021 in Konigssee) and two bronze medals (2017 in Konigssee, 2018 in Altenberg).

Social Media

Legend

:: Gold Medal Event

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