Constanze Gensel
Constanze Gensel ![]() |
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nation |
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birthday | 1969 or 1970 | ||||
place of birth | Karl-Marx-Stadt, GDR | ||||
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discipline | Single run | ||||
society | SC Karl-Marx-Stadt | ||||
Trainer | Jutta Müller | ||||
status | Career ended | ||||
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Constanze Gensel , married Constanze Bauer , is a former German figure skater who competed for the GDR .
Career
In 1985 she won the Golden Pirouette of Zagreb and is multiple medalist at the GDR championships in figure skating . In 1984 she took bronze behind Katarina Witt and Simone Koch . In 1985 and 1986 she came second, both ahead of Simone Koch, but again behind Katarina Witt. At the Junior World Championships in 1984 and the European Championships in 1986 , she took 8th place. Her best world championship placement she achieved at the 1985 world championships with 11th place. She trained in Karl-Marx-Stadt and was spied on by 27 Stasi informers, as she found in her surveillance file. Constanze Bauer later became a consultant at a bank.

Simone Lang , Katarina Witt , Constanze Gensel and Jutta Müller (from left) in Karl-Marx-Stadt, December 25, 1984
successes
International | |||
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competition | 1983/84 | 1984/85 | 1985/86 |
World Championship | 14th | 11. | 17th |
European Championship | 12. | 8th. | |
Golden pirouette from Zagreb | 1. | ||
Prague skate | 3. | ||
International: Junior | |||
Junior World Championship | 8th. | ||
National | |||
GDR championship | 3. | 2. | 2. |
Web links
Commons : Constanze Gensel - Collection of Images
- Jens Eumann: Shadows on the ice and on the soul . Freie Presse , February 12, 2011, p. 5 (pdf; 345 kB)
- Thomas Purschke: Shadows on the ice, Stasi and doping entanglements in the figure skating center Karl-Marx-Stadt . Deutschlandfunk , March 6, 2011
Individual evidence
- ↑ a b How does the Erzgebirge experience Olympia? In: Free Press . February 6, 2014, accessed on October 9, 2014 (chargeable archive access required).
- ↑ Jens Eumann: Shadows on the ice and on the soul. In: Free Press. February 11, 2011, accessed October 9, 2014 .
- ↑ Thomas Purschke: Shadows on the ice. In: Deutschlandfunk . March 6, 2011, accessed October 9, 2014 .
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SURNAME | Gensel, Constanze |
ALTERNATIVE NAMES | Bauer, Constanze |
BRIEF DESCRIPTION | German figure skater |
DATE OF BIRTH | 1969 or 1970 |