Erich Buck

Erich Buck
nation	Germany
birthday	January 5, 1949
place of birth	Ravensburg
Career
discipline	Ice dance
Partner	Angelica Buck
society	ERV Ravensburg
Trainer	Betty Callaway
status	resigned
End of career	1973
Medal table
World Cup medals 0 × 3 × 1 × EM medals 1 × 3 × 0 ×
World figure skating championships bronze Ljubljana 1970 Ice dance silver Lyon 1971 Ice dance silver Calgary 1972 Ice dance silver Bratislava 1973 Ice dance  European figure skating championships silver Leningrad 1970 Ice dance silver Zurich 1971 Ice dance gold Gothenburg 1972 Ice dance silver Cologne 1973 Ice dance

Erich Buck (born January 5, 1949 in Weingarten ) is a former German figure skater who started in ice dancing .

Life

Erich Buck grew up in Ravensburg . He attended the Albert-Einstein-Gymnasium there until his Abitur in 1967. He studied business administration in Munich and has been running an insurance office in Ravensburg since 1976. In 1977 he married the Swiss figure skating champion Charlotte Walter . The couple has two children. In 1980 Erich Buck was elected to the Ravensburg City Council.

Buck is an enthusiastic sailor, president of the Lake Constance Lacustre fleet and has won several Lake Constance championships. As a helmsman, he achieved the blue ribbon five times in the regatta “Around Lake Constance”.

Athletic career

His ice dance partner was his sister Angelika Buck . The siblings were trained by Betty Callaway in Oberstdorf and represented the ERV Ravensburg. From 1968 to 1973 they were German ice dance champions six times in a row . They won their first major international medals in 1970 with silver at the European Championships in Leningrad and bronze at the World Championships in Ljubljana . It was the first ice dance medals for Germany at world and European championships . From then on, the Bucks became the strongest competitors of the most successful ice dance couple in history, Lyudmila Pachomowa and Alexander Gorshkov from the Soviet Union . In 1971 they became Vice European Champion in Zurich and Vice World Champion in Lyon . At the European Championships in Gothenburg in 1972 , Angelika and Erich Buck were the only ice dancers in the period from 1970 to 1976 to ever defeat Pachomowa and Gorschkow. Thus they became the first and to this day only German European ice dance champions. At the 1972 World Cup they won the silver medal again, as they did in 1973 at their last European Championship and their last World Cup .

The Ravensburger waltz they created was shown for the first time in 1973 at the German championships and later became a compulsory dance.

Results

Ice dance

(with Angelika Buck )

Competition / year	1965	1966	1967	1968	1969	1970	1971	1972	1973
World championships			10.	8th.	5.	3.	2.	2.	2.
European championships		13.		6th	4th	2.	2.	1.	2.
German championships	4th	2.	2.	1.	1.	1.	1.	1.	1.

literature

• Johannes Riedel: The “Ravensburger Waltz” will stay. Erich Buck . In: Profiles Ravensburg . Biberacher Verlagsdruckerei, Biberach 2008, ISBN 978-3-933614-40-7 , pp. 40–43

Web links

Commons : Erich and Angelika Buck  - Collection of pictures, videos and audio files