Career
Kiehl retired from competitions after the Calgary Olympics, aged 23.
Kiehl retired from competitions after the Calgary Olympics, aged 23.
Competing for West Germany, she won her first World Cup victory in a Super-G competition in the 1983/1984 season. In 1985 and 1986 Kiehl won the discipline World cups in Giant slalom and Super-G. The major highlight in Kiehl"s career came at the 1988 Olympics in Calgary, when she won a gold medal in the downhill ahead of Brigitte Oertli and Karen Percy.