Mandy Woetzel

Mandy Woetzel
Mandy Wötzel with Axel Rauschenbach, 1988
nation	German Democratic Republic of Germany
birthday	July 21, 1973
place of birth	Karl Marx City
size	150 cm
Weight	40 kg
job	Figure skating coach
Career
discipline	Pair skating
Partner	Axel Rauschenbach, Ingo Steuer
society	Chemnitz ice skating club
Trainer	Monika Scheibe
status	resigned
End of career	1998
Medal table
Olympic medals 0 × 0 × 1 × World Cup medals 1 × 2 × 0 × EM medals 1 × 4 × 0 ×
winter Olympics bronze Nagano 1998 Couples  World figure skating championships silver Prague 1993 Couples silver Edmonton 1996 Couples gold Lausanne 1997 Couples  European figure skating championships silver Birmingham 1989 Couples silver Helsinki 1993 Couples gold Dortmund 1995 Couples silver Sofia 1996 Couples silver Paris 1997 Couples
Placements in the figure skating Grand Prix
Podium placements 1. 2. 3.  Grand Prix Final 1 1 1  Grand Prix competitions 7th 4th 2

Mandy Wötzel (born July 21, 1973 in Karl-Marx-Stadt ) is a former German figure skater who competed in pair skating for the GDR and Germany .

biography

Mandy Wötzel started figure skating as a child. It started first for SC Karl-Marx-Stadt , which became SC Chemnitz after reunification. Her pairs trainer was Monika Scheibe .

At first Wötzel ran with Axel Rauschenbach . In 1989 and 1990 they became the last pair skating champions in the GDR . They competed at two world championships and three European championships . Their only medal there they won in 1989 in Birmingham , when they were runner-up European champions behind Larissa Selesnjowa and Oleg Makarow from the Soviet Union. Her best placement at world championships was seventh in 1990 . In 1991 they became German champions . The 1992 Olympic Games in Albertville ended Wötzel and Rauschenbach in eighth place.

In 1989, Wötzel was hit on the head by Rauschenbach's ice skate when both were doing a pirouette side by side. Wötzel had to go to hospital for three months and missed half a school year. After the Olympic Games in 1992, the figure skating couple separated because Rauschenbach decided to work at a bank.

From 1992 she started with Ingo Steuer . In 1993 Wötzel and Steuer became German champions for the first time . At the European Championships in Helsinki they won their first major international medal with silver. At their first World Cup they were in Prague runners-up behind the Canadians Isabelle Brasseur and Lloyd Eisler . In 1994 they missed medals, at the Olympic Games in Lillehammer they had to give up because of an injury to Wötzel. From 1995 to 1997 Wötzel and Steuer won the German pair skating championships. In 1995 they became European champions in Dortmund . In 1996 they won the silver medal at both the European and World Championships . In the same year they won the Grand Prix final . Also in 1997 they won the silver medal at the European Championships . They then celebrated their greatest success at the subsequent World Cup . They became world champions in Lausanne . After the end of the season, both had to undergo knee surgery. Ingo Steuer also had a car accident. Nevertheless, they won the bronze medal at the 1998 Olympic Games in Nagano and received - together with their partner Ingo Steuer - the silver laurel leaf. Then Wötzel and Steuer ended their amateur careers and switched to professionals.

In autumn 2006 Mandy Wötzel took part in the television show Dancing on Ice . Her partner there was the boxer Sven Ottke . Mandy Wötzel has lived in Melbourne, Australia, since 2007 .

Results

Pair skating

(until 1992 with Axel Rauschenbach , from 1993 with Ingo Steuer )

Competition / year	1988	1989	1990	1991	1992	1993	1994	1995	1996	1997	1998
winter Olympics	-				8th.		Z				3.
World championships	8th.		7th			2.	4th	5.	2.	1.
European championships	5.	2.		5.		2.	5.	1.	2.	2.
GDR championships	2.	1.	1.
German championships				1.	2.	1.		1.	1.	1.

Web links

Commons : Mandy Wötzel  - Collection of images, videos and audio files

• Mandy Wötzel in the Sports-Reference database (English; archived from the original )
• Photo page in the figure skating corner
• Shadows on the ice and on the soul

Individual evidence

1. ↑ Jere Longman: Olympics: Nagano 1998; Taking Life and Its Scars and Pains. In: The New York Times . February 8, 1998, accessed October 10, 2014 . 
2. ^ ^{A b} Philip Hersh: German Pair Find Skating Is Easiest Part. Injuries Limit Duo's Medal Haul. In: Chicago Tribune . February 4, 1998, accessed October 10, 2014 . 
3. ↑ Barbara Klimke: Mandy Wötzel and Ingo Steuer from Chemnitz want to defend the title in pair skating in Oberstdorf. But there is always danger. In: Berliner Zeitung . January 4, 1997, accessed October 10, 2014 .