Competing in three
Winter Olympics, Kraushaar-Pielach won a complete set of medals in the women's singles event with a gold in
1998 (when she beat her team-mate
Barbara Niedernhuber by 2 thousandths of a second), a silver in
2006, and a bronze in
2002. She also won ten medals at the
FIL World Luge Championships with four golds (Women's singles:
2004, Mixed team:
2000,
2001,
2007), four silvers (Women's singles: 2000, 2001; Mixed team:
1997,
1999), and two bronze (Women's singles: 2007,
2008). Kraushaar-Pielach won ten medals at the
FIL European Luge Championships, including seven golds (Women's singles:
1998,
2004,
2006; Mixed team: 1998,
2000, 2004, 2006) and three silvers (Women's singles:
2000, 2002,
2008). She also won the overall
Luge World Cup five times (1998-9, 2000-1, 2001-2, 2005-6,
2006-7). Kraushaar-Pielach started her last season off with a win in the women's singles event at
Lake Placid, New York, on 16 November 2007. Her last race in
Sigulda,
Latvia, on 16 February 2008 saw her finishing third, the same place where she won her first World Cup event on 30 November 1996. ==Sports official==