Ina Bauer

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Ina Bauer figure skating
Full name Ina Bauer scenes
nation GermanyGermany Germany
birthday January 31, 1941
place of birth Krefeld
date of death December 13, 2014
Place of death Krefeld
Career
discipline Single run
Medal table
German championship 3 × gold 1 × silver 0 × bronze
German championshipTemplate: medals_winter sports / maintenance / unrecognized
silver 1956 Cologne Single run
gold 1957 Berlin Single run
gold 1958 Munich Single run
gold 1959 Berlin Single run
 

Ina Bauer-Szenes (born January 31, 1941 in Krefeld ; † December 13, 2014 there ) was a German figure skater who started in a single run .

She was German champion from 1957 to 1959 . Her best international results were fourth at the 1959 European Championships and fourth at the 1958 and 1959 World Championships .

For a while she was considered the world's best free skater, but was a little weaker in duty, so that she never won an international medal, despite the training stays with starting coach Edi Scholdan in Colorado Springs . She invented the “Ina Bauer step”, which is named after her today. After lying hopelessly behind after completing the European Championship in 1960 , under pressure from her father - a silk manufacturer from Krefeld - she withdrew from amateur sports, which was a major scandal in German figure skating.

After the end of her amateur career, she got leading roles in the revue films A Star Falls From Heaven and Buy You A Colorful Balloon (1961), at the side of Toni Sailer . She was the predecessor of the figure skater Uschi Keszler at the American ice revue Ice Follies and married the Hungarian figure skater István Szenes . She later ran an arts and crafts business in her hometown of Krefeld and worked as a figure skating trainer at the Krefeld ice skating club (EVK) .

Results

Competition / year 1956 1957 1958 1959 1960
World championships 20th 11. 4th 4th
European championships 13. 10. 4th Z
German championships 2. 1. 1. 1.

Web links

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