Erik Pausin

Erik Pausin
Erik and Ilse Pausin (1950)
nation	Austria
birthday	April 18, 1920
place of birth	Vienna
date of death	May 1997
Career
discipline	Pair skating
Partner	Use Pausin
society	EK Engelmann
Medal table
Olympic medals 0 × 1 × 0 × World Cup medals 0 × 5 × 0 × EM medals 0 × 3 × 0 ×
winter Olympics silver Garmisch-Partenkirchen 1936 Couples  World figure skating championships silver Budapest 1935 Couples silver Paris 1936 Couples silver London 1937 Couples silver Berlin 1938 Couples silver Budapest 1939 Couples  European figure skating championships silver Prague 1937 Couples silver St. Moritz 1938 Couples silver London 1939 Couples

Erik Pausin (born April 18, 1920 in Vienna ; † May 1997 ) was an Austrian figure skater who started in pair skating .

Erik Pausin competed in pair skating with his sister Ilse Pausin at the end of the 1930s . At that time they were the second best figure skating couple in the world behind Maxi Herber and Ernst Baier .

From 1936 to 1941 they won the Austrian championships . From 1937 to 1939 they were runner-up European champions behind Herber and Baier and from 1935 to 1939 runner-up world champions , in 1935 behind Hungarians Emilie Rotter and László Szollás and from 1936 to 1939 behind Herber and Baier. They also won the silver medal behind the Germans at the 1936 Olympic Games in Garmisch-Partenkirchen . After the Anschluss , the Pausins ​​started in 1939 for the German Reich. Thus, they were part of the only all-German podium at the world figure skating championships at the 1939 World Cup .

Results

Pair skating

(with Ilse Pausin )

Competition / year	1935	1936	1937	1938	1939	1940	1941
winter Olympics		2.
World championships	2.	2.	2.	2.	2.
European championships	4th		2.	2.	2.
German championships					2.		2.
Austrian championships	2.	1.	1.	1.	1.	1.	1.

Web links

• Erik Pausin in the Sports-Reference database (English; archived from the original )