Horst Faber (figure skater)

Horst Faber
nation	BR Germany
birthday	1921
Career
discipline	Single run
society	SC Riessersee
Medal table
World Cup medals 0 × 0 × 1 × EM medals 0 × 1 × 1 ×
World figure skating championships bronze Budapest 1939 Men's  European figure skating championships bronze Davos 1939 Men's silver Zurich 1951 Men's

Horst Faber (born 1921) is a German former figure skater who competed internationally in a single run .

Horst Faber started for the SC Riessersee . In 1939, the last year before the competition break due to the Second World War , Faber won the bronze medal at the figure skating world championships in Budapest and at the European championships in Davos , both times behind the British Graham Sharp and Freddie Tomlins . In the previous year he missed the podium in both competitions with fourth place, but established himself as the best German figure skater after the Ernst Baier era . The World War and the subsequent ban on German athletes prevented him from further success. In 1951 the nine-time German champion competed again at the European Championship, twelve years after his last major international appearance. Despite the long break, he achieved his best international placement when he won the European runner-up title in Zurich behind the Austrian Helmut Seibt and ahead of the Italian Carlo Fassi .

At the first German ice dance championships in 1950, he became ice dance master at the side of Eva Prawitz , whom he married in 1950.

Results

Competition / year	1937	1938	1939	1940	1941	1942	1943	1944	1945	1946	1947	1948	1949	1950	1951
World championships		4th	3.
European championships	8th.	4th	3.												2.
German championships			1.	1.	1.			1.			1.	1.	1.	1.*	1.

* also ice dance master with Eva Prawitz