Bianca Walter
{{short description|German short track speed skater}}
{{Use dmy dates|date=August 2020}}
{{Infobox sportsperson
| name = Bianca Merker
| birthname = Bianca Walter
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| image = BiancaWalter.jpg
| caption = Walter in 2012
| nationality = German
| sport = Short track speed skating
| birth_date = {{birth date and age|1990|3|31|df=yes}}
| birth_place = Dresden, East Germany{{cite web |url=http://www.bianca-walter.de/ueber_bianca/ |title=Bianca Walter |website=bianca-walter.de |accessdate=10 February 2018}}
| death_date =
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Bianca Merker{{cite web | url=https://www.sportbuzzer.de/artikel/dresdner-shorttrackerin-anna-seidel-hofft-auf-einen-guten-weltcup-auftakt/ | title=Dresdner Shorttrackerin Anna Seidel hofft auf einen guten Weltcup-Auftakt }} (born Bianca Walter; 31 March 1990) is a German short track speed skater. She competed in the women's 500 metres at the 2018 Winter Olympics.{{cite web |url=https://www.pyeongchang2018.com/en/game-time/results/OWG2018/en/short-track-speed-skating/athlete-profile-n3029159-bianca-walter.htm |title=Bianca Walter |website=Pyeongchang2018.com |accessdate=9 February 2018 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20180421122032/https://www.pyeongchang2018.com/en/game-time/results/OWG2018/en/short-track-speed-skating/athlete-profile-n3029159-bianca-walter.htm |archive-date=21 April 2018 |url-status=dead }}
Biography
Walter was born in 1990 in EV Dresden. She was the daughter of the former speed skater Skadi Walter and she was brought up in an enthusiastic family of skaters. Her mother was a successful skater{{cite Sports-Reference |check-wikidata=no |url=https://www.sports-reference.com/olympics/athletes/wa/skadi-walter-1.html |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20200418022838/https://www.sports-reference.com/olympics/athletes/wa/skadi-walter-1.html |url-status=dead |archive-date=18 April 2020 |title=Skadi Walter |accessdate=1 February 2018}} and her grandmother was a figure skating coach. Walter was on skates at the age of three and by age of nine, she experimented with the short track at the former ESC Dresden.
In 2006 she became a member of the German Ladies Short Track national team when she was 16 and she made her international debut in the 2006/07 World Cup season in Saguenay in Canada, The same year she competed in the Junior World Championships where she was beaten in the heats.{{cite web|title=Bianca Walter|url=http://shorttrack.wordpress.com/akteure/bianca-walter/|url-status=|accessdate=15 November 2011|archiveurl=https://archive.today/20120713151140/http://shorttrack.wordpress.com/akteure/bianca-walter/|website=shorttrack.wordpress.com|archive-date=13 July 2012|language=German}} Walter won her first silver medal with German team at the European Championships in Turin.
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Category:Speed skaters from Dresden
Category:Sportspeople from Bezirk Dresden
Category:German female short-track speed skaters
Category:Olympic short-track speed skaters for Germany
Category:Short-track speed skaters at the 2018 Winter Olympics