Patricia Polifka is a German

Germany

Germany , officially the Federal Republic of Germany , is a federal parliamentary republic in Europe. The country consists of 16 states while the capital and largest city is Berlin. Germany covers an area of 357,021 km2 and has a largely temperate seasonal climate...

 bobsledder who has competed since 2005. She was a push athlete for Claudia Schramm

Claudia Schramm

Claudia Schramm is a German bobsledder who has competed since 2000. She won a bronze in the two-woman event at the 2008 FIBT World Championships in Altenberg, Germany....

 during the 2006/07 season, along side Stephanie Szczurek and Nicole Herschmann

Nicole Herschmann

Nicole Herschmann is a German bobsledder who has competed since 2001. Competing in two Winter Olympics, she won a bronze medal in the two-woman event at Salt Lake City in 2002....

. She won a gold in the mixed team event at the 2009 FIBT World Championships

FIBT World Championships 2009

The FIBT World Championships 2009, officially known as the Bauhaus FIBT Bobsleigh & Skeleton World Championships, 20 February to 1 March 2009 at the bobsleigh, luge, and skeleton track in Lake Placid, New York for the ninth time, doing so previously in 1949, 1961, 1969, 1973, 1978, 1983, 1997 , and...

 in Lake Placid, New York

Lake Placid, New York

Lake Placid is a village in the Adirondack Mountains in Essex County, New York, United States. As of the 2000 census, the village had a population of 2,638....

. She finished seventh in the two-woman event at those same championships.

Polifka's best World Cup finish was second in the two-woman event at Altenberg, Germany

Altenberg, Germany

Altenberg is a town in the Sächsische Schweiz-Osterzgebirge district, in the Free State of Saxony, Germany. It is situated in the Ore Mountains, close to the border with the Czech Republic, 15 km northwest of Teplice, and 32 km south of Dresden....

in 2006.