GDR championships in figure skating
The GDR figure skating championships were held annually between 1949 and 1990 to determine the national champions of the GDR in the individual races for women and men, in pair skating and in ice dancing . The championships were held by the national ice sports federation of the GDR, the DELV , in each of the major cities of the GDR.
At the first championships in 1949, officially known as the East Zone Championship , only the championship competitions in the women's individual run took place. From 1950 onwards, it was all about the championship title for men and couples. Ice dancing did not become a championship discipline until 1964.
The most successful participants (up to the end of the GDR in 1990) were Jan Hoffmann (nine titles in the men's individual run), Gabriele Seyfert (ten titles in the women's individual run), Vera Lampe / Horst Kuhrüber and Sabine Baeß / Tassilo Thierbach (five titles each in the Pair skating) and Annerose Baier / Eberhard Rüger (eight titles in ice dance).
Gudrun Olbricht , the first GDR female champion in the women's individual run, was already third in the previous all-German championships in 1947 . The GDR champions Ronny Winkler and Mirko Eichhorn became German champions after the fall of the Wall (Eichhorn 1992, Winkler 1993 and 1994). The pair skaters Ingo Steuer , Mandy Wötzel , Peggy Schwarz , Axel Rauschenbach and Alexander König , as well as the ice dancers Kati Winkler and René Lohse also became champions after the fall of the Wall .
Competitions
Men's
Ladies
Pair skating
Ice dance
| year | gold | silver | bronze |
| 1949-1953 | not carried out | ||
| 1954 | Ingelore Gotsch and Heinz Kuhrüber | Therese Geidel and Heinz Lindner | Vera Lampe-Kuhrüber and Horst Kuhrüber |
| 1955 | Therese Geidel and Heinz Lindner | Ingelore Gotsch and Heinz Kuhrüber | |
| 1956 | Therese Geidel and Heinz Lindner | ||
| 1957-1961 | not carried out | ||
| 1962 | Annerose Baier and Eberhard Rüger | Eva Marie Reuter and Bernd Egert | Karin Voigtländer and Peter Meyer |
| 1963 | Eva Marie Reuter and Bernd Egert | Annerose Baier and Eberhard Rüger | Monika Ziemke and Jochen Bode |
| 1964 | Annerose Baier and Eberhard Rüger | Monika Ziemke and Jochen Bode | Eva Marie Reuter and Bernd Egert |
| 1965 | Annerose Baier and Eberhard Rüger | Monika Ziemke and Jochen Bode | Eva Marie Reuter and Bernd Egert |
| 1966 | Annerose Baier and Eberhard Rüger | Norma Allwelt and Michael Schmidt | Steffi Böhme and Bernd Egert |
| 1967 | Annerose Baier and Eberhard Rüger | Norma Allwelt and Michael Schmidt | Steffi Böhme and Bernd Egert |
| 1968 | Annerose Baier and Eberhard Rüger | Steffi Böhme and Bernd Egert | Norma Allwelt and Michael Schmidt |
| 1969 | Annerose Baier and Eberhard Rüger | Norma Allwelt and Michael Schmidt | Sylke Müller and Peter Müller |
| 1970 | Annerose Baier and Eberhard Rüger | Sylke Müller and Peter Müller | |
| 1971-1989 | not carried out | ||
| 1990 | Kati Winkler and René Lohse | ||
The most successful participants in GDR championships
Men's
| Surname | title | Years | |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1. | Jan Hoffmann | 9 | 1971-1974, 1976-1980 |
| 2. | Günter Zöller | 5 | 1965, 1967-1970 |
| . | Falko Kirsten | 5 | 1983-1987 |
| 4th | Horst Kuhrüber | 3 | 1953-1955 |
| . | Bodo Bockenauer | 3 | 1960–1962 |
| . | Ralph Borghard | 3 | 1963-1964, 1966 |
Ladies
| Surname | title | Years | |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1. | Gabriele Seyfert | 10 | 1961-1970 |
| 2. | Katarina Witt | 8th | 1981-1988 |
| 3. | Anett Pötzsch | 5 | 1976-1980 |
| 4th | Inge Kabisch | 4th | 1952-1955 |
| 5. | Sonja Morgenstern | 3 | 1971-1973 |
| 6th | Christine Errath | 2 | 1974-1975 |
Couples
| Surname | title | Years | |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1. | Vera Lampe and Horst Kuhrüber | 5 | 1950-1952, 1954-1955 |
| . | Sabine Baeß and Tassilo Thierbach | 5 | 1979-1980, 1982-1984 |
| 3. | Heidemarie Steiner and Heinz-Ulrich Walther | 4th | 1966-1967, 1969-1970 |
| 4th | Margit Senf and Peter Göbel | 3 | 1960–1961, 1963 |
| . | Manuela Groß and Uwe Kagelmann | 3 | 1971–1972, 1974 |
| . | Romy Kermer and Rolf Austria | 3 | 1973, 1975-1976 |
Ice dancers
| Surname | title | Years | |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1. | Annerose Baier and Eberhard Rüger | 8th | 1962, 1964-1970 |
International record of GDR figure skaters
This listing contains all GDR figure skaters who won a medal at the Olympic Winter Games , World Championships or European Championships .
- Name: Name of the athlete
- OM: Specifies the number of gold, silver and bronze medals at the Olympic Winter Games on
- WM: Specifies the number of gold, silver and bronze medals at world championships at
- EM: Indicates the number of gold, silver and bronze medals at the European Championships at
Note: The list can be sorted : by clicking on a column header, the list is sorted according to this column, clicking twice reverses the sorting. Any desired sorting combination can be achieved by clicking two columns in a row.
Single runner
| Surname | OM | WM | EM |
|---|---|---|---|
| Witt, Katarina | 2 - 0 - 0 | 4 - 2 - 0 | 6 - 1 - 0 |
| Poetzsch, Anett | 1 - 0 - 0 | 2 - 2 - 0 | 4 - 1 - 1 |
| Seyfert, Gabriele | 0 - 1 - 0 | 2 - 3 - 0 | 3 - 2 - 0 |
| Hoffmann, Jan | 0 - 1 - 0 | 2 - 2 - 3 | 4 - 1 - 2 |
| Errath, Christine | 0 - 0 - 1 | 1 - 1 - 2 | 3 - 0 - 1 |
| Zöller, Günter | 0 - 0 - 0 | 0 - 0 - 1 | 0 - 0 - 1 |
| Grossmann, Evelyn | 0 - 0 - 0 | 0 - 0 - 0 | 1 - 0 - 0 |
| Morgenstern, Sonja | 0 - 0 - 0 | 0 - 0 - 0 | 0 - 0 - 1 |
Pair skaters
| Surname | OM | WM | EM |
|---|---|---|---|
| Romy Kermer & Rolf Austria | 0 - 1 - 0 | 0 - 2 - 1 | 0 - 3 - 0 |
| Manuela Groß & Uwe Kagelmann | 0 - 0 - 2 | 0 - 0 - 2 | 0 - 0 - 2 |
| Manuela Mager & Uwe Bewersdorff | 0 - 0 - 1 | 0 - 2 - 0 | 0 - 0 - 1 |
| Sabine Baeß & Tassilo Thierbach | 0 - 0 - 0 | 1 - 2 - 2 | 2 - 1 - 1 |
| Heidemarie Steiner & Heinz-Ulrich Walther | 0 - 0 - 0 | 0 - 0 - 1 | 0 - 0 - 3 |
| Mandy Wötzel & Axel Rauschenbach | 0 - 0 - 0 | 0 - 0 - 0 | 0 - 1 - 0 |
| Birgit Lorenz & Knut Schubert | 0 - 0 - 0 | 0 - 0 - 0 | 0 - 0 - 2 |
| Margit Senf & Peter Göbel | 0 - 0 - 0 | 0 - 0 - 0 | 0 - 0 - 1 |
| Katrin Kanitz & Tobias Schröter | 0 - 0 - 0 | 0 - 0 - 0 | 0 - 0 - 1 |
| Peggy Schwarz & Alexander König | 0 - 0 - 0 | 0 - 0 - 0 | 0 - 0 - 1 |
Web links
Individual evidence
- ^ GDR figure skating championships with details of the venues , accessed on October 28, 2019.
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