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}} Karin Enke (born 20 June 1961), also known as Karin Busch, Karin Kania and Karin Enke-Richter, is a former speed skater, one of the most dominant of the 1980s. She is a three-time Olympic gold medallist, winning the 500 metres in 1980, the 1000 metres in 1984 and the 1500 metres in 1984. She won a total of eight Olympic medals. ==Short biography== Karin Enke started her sport career as a figure skater at the club SC Einheit Dresden. Representing East Germany she came in ninth place at the European Figure Skating Championships in 1977. Later she changed to speed skating. Dominant on all distances (being reigning World Allround Champion and World Sprint Champion, and having won German Single Distance Championships titles on all five distances in 1983), Enke was the favourite for all four distances at the 1984 Winter Olympics of Sarajevo, but she won "only" two gold and two silver medals.〔 At the World Cup, Enke had 21 single-distance victories, but won only one overall World Cup. She retired from speed skating after the 1987–88 season. Born as ''Karin Enke'', she married in 1981 and competed as ''Karin Busch'' during the 1981–82 winter. The marriage did not last long and during the 1982–83 and 1983–84 winters, she competed as ''Karin Enke'' again. After marrying her longtime former trainer Rudolf Kania in 1984, she competed as ''Karin Kania'' for the rest of her speed skating career. After her career had ended, she divorced and married again and became ''Karin Enke-Richter''. Like several other female East German skaters who got married after the season had ended (and several of them more than once over the course of their careers), Enke caused some confusion among the speed skating public when she—a skater with a name unfamiliar to them—suddenly won major titles in her "first" season. Commentators were apt to make remarks like "Karin Kania is the skater we knew as Karin Enke last season" and some commentators even, half-jokingly, made remarks like "I wonder what her name will be next season". To alleviate the confusion, Enke kept her maiden name as the ''first'' part of her last name after her third marriage, just like Gunda Kleemann (also known as ''Gunda Niemann'' and ''Gunda Niemann-Stirnemann'') kept ''Niemann'' (the name of her first husband) as the ''first'' part of her last name even after her divorce and both before and after her second marriage, which is unusual in most Western European countries. 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「Karin Enke」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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