Constanze Moser-Scandolo

Constanze Moser-Scandolo
nation	German Democratic Republic of Germany
birthday	4th July 1965
place of birth	Weimar ,  GDR
Career
society	SC Turbine Erfurt (until 1989), ESC Erfurt
Trainer	Gabriele foot
status	resigned
End of career	1990
Medal table
World Cup medals 1 × 0 × 1 × EM medals 0 × 1 × 0 × National medals 1 × 3 × 7 ×
All around world championships gold 1989 Lake Placid All-around bronze 1990 Calgary All-around  All-around European Championships silver 1989 Berlin All-around
Placements in the speed skating world cup
Debut in the World Cup November 29, 1986  World Cup victories 5  Total toilet 1000 3rd ( 1988/89 )  Total toilet 1500 1. (1988/89)  Total toilet 3000/5000 3rd (1988/89)
Podium placements 1. 2. 3.  1000 meters 0 1 3  1500 meters 5 2 1  3000 meters 0 2 4th  5000 meters 0 0 1

Constanze Moser-Scandolo (born July 4, 1965 in Weimar , née Scandolo) is a former German speed skater . As the first runner in the SC Turbine Erfurt , she became the all-around world champion in 1989.

Career

Constanze Scandolo started playing sport at the age of six. She trained on roller skates in Weimar and on the ice in Erfurt , with her sporting development for a long time parallel to the career of Heike Schalling , who was about the same age and also from Weimar . From 1979 Scandolo celebrated successes in the GDR youth sector - including victories at the Children's and Youth Partakiade in 1983 in Karl-Marx-Stadt - and in 1986 she became GDR champion in the Little Four Fighting . Like Schalling, she was part of the Erfurt exercise group supervised by Gabriele Fuß , to which the later Olympic champion Gunda Kleemann (later Niemann-Stirnemann) also joined from the mid-1980s . In international competitions, the Dresden speed skaters around Karin Kania and Andrea Ehrig initially shaped the events; In addition to them, Scandolo and Kleemann qualified with podium results at the national individual distance championships in 1988 for the GDR line-up for the Olympic Winter Games . There Scandolo was scheduled to start on the 1500 meter course, but suffered a strain shortly before the race and had to cancel her start. Kania, Ehrig and Gabi Zange announced their retirement from competitive sports after the Olympics.

From the winter of 1988/89 onwards, Constanze Moser, now married, was one of the international leaders in speed skating. At the all-around European championships in West Berlin in 1989 , she won the silver medal behind Gunda Kleemann. A few weeks later she beat her club colleague from SC Turbine Erfurt (from which the ESC Erfurt emerged in the same year ) at the World Championships in Lake Placid - at temperatures of around -30 ° C - and thus won her first international title as all-around world champion. Moser's strength lay in her balance over the different distances: at both the European Championship and the World Cup, she was among the top three of the partial ratings on all four courses between 500 meters and 5000 meters. In the World Cup she ran the most successful over 1500 meters. Between February and December 1989 she won five competitions on this route and was in first place in the relevant discipline ranking in 1988/89 . In 1990 Moser was disqualified at the European Championships in the final 5000 meter run because of a non-compliant lane change, at the following World Championships she won the bronze medal in the victory of Jacqueline Börner as the defending champion .

After the birth of her daughter in November 1990, Moser ended her sporting career. In the mid-1990s she resumed training and in 1996 won the world title in the Masters division .

After her career, the trained business clerk Moser-Scandolo started working as an office clerk in a Thuringian state ministry. Her brother Heiko Scandolo was also a speed skater and won several medals at GDR championships.

statistics

All-around world championships

From 1988 to 1990 Constanze Moser-Scandolo took part in three all -around world championships and won a gold and a bronze medal. The following table shows their times - and their placements in brackets behind them - on the four individual routes run as well as the resulting total number of points after the Samalog and the final placement . The order of the distances corresponds to their order in the program of the all-around world championships.

All-around world championship		500 m	3000 m	1500 m	5000 m	Points	space
year	place
1988	Skien	43.62 (10)	4: 46.07 (8)	2: 12.99 (4)	8: 18.07 (8)	185.435	7th
1989	Lake Placid	43.33 (3)	4: 39.56 (1)	2: 10.91 (2)	7: 58.30 (2)	181,389	1.
1990	Calgary	41.62 (7)	4: 27.59 (8)	2: 03.91 (3)	7: 29.88 (3)	172.509	3.

All-around European Championships

From 1988 to 1990 Moser-Scandolo took part in three all -around European championships and won a silver medal. The following table shows their times - and their placements in brackets behind them - on the four individual routes run as well as the resulting total number of points after the Samalog and the final placement . The arrangement of the distances corresponds to their order in the program of the all-around world championships at Moser-Scandolo's active time.

All-around European Championship		500 m	3000 m	1500 m	5000 m	Points	space
year	place
1988	Kongsberg	43.16 (4)	4: 36.43 (3)	2: 15.17 (4)	8: 17.62 (4)	184,383	4th
1989	Berlin	42.43 (3)	4: 29.71 (3)	2: 09.05 (2)	7: 47.64 (2)	177.161	2.
1990	Heerenveen	41.77 (7)	4: 22.67 (2)	2: 05.91 (1)	DSQ 1	172.949	NC

¹ Moser was disqualified in the final run because of an illegal change of lane.

World Cup victories

Moser-Scandolo took part in 42 World Cup races between November 29, 1986 and March 4, 1990, of which she finished 19 on the podium and won 5, each over 1500 meters.

No.	date	train	place	distance	time
1.	0Feb 9, 1989	US High Mountain Altitude Rink	Butte	1500 meters	2: 07.58 min.
2.	Feb 11, 1989	Olympic oval	Calgary	1500 meters	2: 02.65 min.
3.	10 Mar 1989	Inzell ice rink	Inzell	1500 meters	2: 05.47 min.
4th	19 Mar 1989	Thialf	Heerenveen	1500 meters	2: 04.61 min.
5.	0Dec. 2, 1989	De Uithof	The hague	1500 meters	2: 08.67 min.

Web links

• Constanze Moser in the Munzinger archive ( beginning of article freely accessible)
• Statistics at speed skating news

Individual evidence

1. ^ ^{A b c d} Matthias Opatz: Once again world champion for fun. In: New Germany. April 4, 1996.
2. ↑ Gunda Niemann-Stirnemann - who took Scandolo's starting position over 1500 meters and came in seventh - describes the situation in her biography published in 2000 in such a way that Scandolo had the team supervisor treat the strain with a syringe one day before the Olympic race. Then she lost the feeling in her leg and was no longer able to start, cf. Gunda Niemann-Stirnemann: I want to. The New Berlin 2000, p. 63.
3. ↑ Dirk Gundel: Historia: The cheated temperature on speedskatingnews.info. November 9, 2004, accessed May 13, 2020.
4. ↑ ^{a b} She ran against Kleemann in a direct duel and took the right of way to her teammate when changing lanes. At the subsequent World Cup, Kleemann was disqualified for the same reason. In her biography, Niemann-Stirnemann described this as a "relatively common reason for disqualifications" that does not indicate unsportsmanlike behavior, cf. Gunda Niemann-Stirnemann: I want to. The New Berlin 2000, p. 69.
5. ↑ ^{a b} statistics at Speedskatingnews , accessed on May 13, 2020.
6. ↑ Profile on schaatsstatistieken.nl , accessed on May 13, 2020.