Kati Winkler
Kati Winkler | |||||||||||||
nation | Germany | ||||||||||||
birthday | January 16, 1974 | ||||||||||||
place of birth | Karl-Marx-Stadt, GDR | ||||||||||||
size | 170 cm | ||||||||||||
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discipline | Ice dance | ||||||||||||
Partner | René Lohse | ||||||||||||
society | SC Berlin | ||||||||||||
Trainer | Martin Skotnicky, Knut Schubert |
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choreographer | Kelly Johnson, Marc Bogaerts, Werner Lipowsky |
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status | resigned | ||||||||||||
End of career | 2004 | ||||||||||||
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Kati Winkler , married. Schneider (born January 16, 1974 in Karl-Marx-Stadt ) is a former German figure skater who started in ice dancing .
Career
Kati Winkler is the daughter of Bernd Winkler and Christina Schmerbach. She has a sister. In Karl-Marx-Stadt, she started figure skating at the age of six, was initially a single skater and was trained by Peter Meyer. Still as a single runner, she went to Berlin in 1985 and was trained there by Jürgen Bertko .
After René Lohse had given up figure skating for other sports for two years, Kati Winkler asked him if he wanted to become her ice dance partner. Lohse agreed and so from 1987 both trained with Knut Schubert , who actually specialized in pair skaters. After the career of the best ice dancing couple from the GDR, Annerose Baier and Eberhard Rüger , the figure skating discipline of ice dancing in the GDR disappeared from the scene from 1971 to 1989. No national ice dance championships were held during this period. When the discipline was reintroduced in 1990, Kati Winkler and René Lohse became the last ice dance champions in the GDR.
In 1993 Winkler and Lohse made their debut at European Championships and 1995 at World Championships . In 1996 they became all-German champions for the first time. In the same year they went to Oberstdorf to coach Martin Skotnický . However, they always started for SC Berlin (formerly SC Dynamo Berlin ). Both were regular soldiers and were supported by the Bundeswehr. Her choreographers were Kelly Johnson , Marc Bogaerts and Werner Lipowsky .
In 1998, Winkler and Lohse played their first Olympic Games and finished them in tenth place. At the world and European championships , they finished ninth each time and were thus among the extended world elite. In the next four years they showed continuous performances at world and European championships and achieved placements from fifth to seventh. In 2000 they became the first German ice dancer to qualify for the Grand Prix final . There they finished fifth. At their second Olympic Games in 2002 they finished eighth. A few weeks earlier, Lohse had injured his knee in a training fall. In the summer of 2002 he was injured again when he had a bicycle accident in Oberstdorf. Although he recovered and qualified for the Grand Prix final with his ice dance partner, they had to cancel this due to an influenza at Winkler and a muscle injury at Lohse. Because of renewed ligament injuries in Lohse's knee, they missed the 2003 World Cup and the 2004 European Championship. Lohse got fit just in time to be able to take part in the 2004 World Cup in his own country, in Dortmund . There Kati Winkler and René Lohse won the bronze medal. It was the greatest success of German ice dancers since 1973, when Angelika and Erich Buck won their last World Cup medal. Aside from the Bucks, Winkler and Lohse are the only German ice dancers who have won a World Cup medal. After their success at the World Cup, Winkler and Lohse ended their competitive careers.
Kati Winkler is an office clerk by profession. She has two daughters (born in 2007 and 2010). In December 2008 she married the dentist Oliver Schneider.
Results
Ice dance
(with René Lohse )
Championship / year | 1990 | 1991 | 1992 | 1993 | 1994 | 1995 | 1996 | 1997 | 1998 | 1999 | 2000 | 2001 | 2002 | 2003 | 2004 |
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winter Olympics | 10. | 8th. | |||||||||||||
World championships | 19th | 13. | 12. | 9. | 7th | 6th | 7th | 7th | 3. | ||||||
European championships | 16. | 15th | 9. | 9. | 6th | 5. | 6th | 5. | |||||||
Junior World Championships | 15th | 8th. | |||||||||||||
German championships | 2. | 2. | 3. | 2. | 1. | 1. | 1. | 1. | 1. | 1. | |||||
GDR championships | 1. | ||||||||||||||
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Grand Prix competition / season | 89/90 | 90/91 | 91/92 | 92/93 | 93/94 | 94/95 | 95/96 | 96/97 | 97/98 | 98/99 | 99/00 | 00/01 | 01/02 | 02/03 | 03/04 |
Grand Prix Final | 5. | ||||||||||||||
Skate America | 4th | 7th | 6th | 4th | |||||||||||
Skate Canada | 9. | ||||||||||||||
Cup of Russia | 4th | 4th | |||||||||||||
NHK Trophy | 4th | 3. | 2. | 4th | |||||||||||
Trophée Lalique | 5. | 3. | |||||||||||||
Nations Cup | 9. | 6th | 6th | 7th | 5. | 3. | 2. | 4th | 3. | 2. |
Web links
- Kati Winkler / René Lohse in the database of the International Skating Union (English)
- Kati Winkler in the Sports-Reference database (English; archived from the original )
Individual evidence
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SURNAME | Winkler, Kati |
BRIEF DESCRIPTION | German figure skater |
DATE OF BIRTH | January 16, 1974 |
PLACE OF BIRTH | Karl Marx City |