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Ulrike Holzner

bobsledder

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Record originEnglish Wikipedia
Text licenseCC BY-SA 4.0
Source revisionJul 17, 2026
Entity authorityQ69857 ↗
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Ulrike Holzner (born on 18 September 1968 in Mainz, Rhineland-Palatinate) is a German former athlete and bobsledder who switched to the latter event in the early 2000s. She won a silver medal in the two-woman event with teammate Sandra Prokoff at the 2002 Winter Olympics in Salt Lake City.

Holzner also won a silver medal in the two-woman event at the 2003 FIBT World Championships in Winterberg.

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Editorial reviewA concise reference frame for defining the subject, testing terminology and identifying the institution closest to the evidence. The current lead gives the account dated anchors—1968, 2002, 2003—that can be checked directly. The authority record carries competing date values—1968-09-18, 1968—which should remain separate until their references and qualifiers are resolved. Its value is orientation rather than verdict, with Ulrike, Holzner and bobsledder providing the first useful test.
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This entry incorporates text from “Ulrike Holzner” on English Wikipedia. Contributors are listed in the page history. Text is available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 License. Selected authority identifiers and statements are retrieved from Wikidata under CC0; their references and qualifiers remain part of the verification path.