Sandra Baumgartner (born 1982) is a German sports journalist and reporter. She has worked as a freelance reporter and presenter for several German television stations and reported on various sports programmes. Baumgartner worked at German pay-TV channel Motorvision TV before joining

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in 2011, reading the hourly news bulletins on Sky Sport News HD before becoming a

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reporter on

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races in 2012.

Biography

Baumgartner was born in 1982 in

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and grew up in the city. When she was in the final year of high school, she decided to embark on a career in broadcasting in television. Following graduation from high school, Baumgartner did a two-year internship at a Munich television production company. She made reports for magazines, documentaries and corporate videos for industrial clients films. Between 2002 and 2007, she was a freelance reporter and television presenter for multiple television stations. These stations included ARD, DMAX,

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and VOX. In 2008, Baumgartner received a job offer to work at the German pay-TV channel Motorvision TV. She became a reporter and journalist for the channel on various programmes about the

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, the

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, the

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and the

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. Furthermore, Baumgartner read the news on the ''Motorvision TV News'' bulletin and presented the ''Mission Mobility'' and ''Supercars'' programmes. She wanted a change and joined

in 2011, who were employing editorial staff, presenters and reporters. Baumgartner a founder member of the editorial team for the sport news channel Sky Sport News HD. At first, she was the presenter of hourly news bulletins on the channel. She began reporting on

races on site from the 2012 Monaco Grand Prix. Baumgartner also began covering the support

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races that are held inbetween Formula One sessions, and has reported on the

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and the

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in London. In 2019, after Sky regained the broadcast rights to Formula One in Germany, she became the channel's

reporter. Baumgartner became a co-presenter of Sky Deutschland's coverage of

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from the 2024 season onwards.

Personal life

She married the public relations agency owner Thomas Doriath in May 2019. The couple have one child.

References

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