Manfred Schnelldorfer

Manfred Schnelldorfer
nation	Germany
birthday	May 2, 1943
place of birth	Munich, Germany
Career
discipline	Single run
society	ERC Munich
End of career	1964
Medal table
Olympic medals 1 × 0 × 0 × World Cup medals 1 × 0 × 1 × EM medals 0 × 2 × 3 ×
winter Olympics gold Innsbruck 1964 Men's  World figure skating championships bronze Cortina d'Ampezzo 1963 Men's gold Dortmund 1964 Men's  European figure skating championships bronze Garmisch-Partenkirchen 1960 Men's bronze Berlin 1961 Men's bronze Geneva 1962 Men's silver Budapest 1963 Men's silver Grenoble 1964 Men's

Manfred Schnelldorfer (born May 2, 1943 in Munich ) is a former German figure skater who started in a single run . He is the Olympic champion of 1964 and the world champion of 1964 .

Sport and work

Manfred Schnelldorfer won his first championship in figure skating at the age of eight. After the war, his mother ran away with an American and gave Manfred to the Red Cross , after which he grew up in a Schliersee children's home. His father did not find him there until 1946. The father could not provide for the maintenance of his son, so Manfred lived with foster parents. He describes this part of his childhood as the "bad time". Only when his father remarried that Manfred was brought back by him. He was looked after and trained by his father and his new wife, who were both well-known ice skating coaches. He started for the Munich ERC and thus for the Federal Republic of Germany.

At his only German Junior Championships, he was defeated by his teammate Hans-Jürgen Bäumler , while Manfred Schnelldorfer won the German Senior Championships only one year later. Here Hans-Jürgen Bäumler was only fourth. Later he studied architecture for 8 semesters on the side , but ice skating did not allow him to finish.

The highlight of his career was winning the gold medal in men's figure skating at the 1964 Olympic Games in Innsbruck . Manfred Schnelldorfer's Olympic victory was surprising. The real favorite was Alain Calmat from France, who was European champion from 1962 to 1964 and also vice world champion in 1963 . Schnelldorfer is to this day the only German Olympic champion in men's figure skating .

For this achievement he received the Silver Laurel Leaf on December 11, 1964 . In the same year Schnelldorfer ended his career at the age of only 21.

Overall, Manfred Schnelldorfer was eight times German champion (1956–1961, 1963–1964), three times European championship third (1960–1962) and twice vice European champion (1963–1964) and after his Olympic victory in 1964 also world champion . It was the first world championship victory of a German after Gilbert Fuchs, who was born in Austria but started for the German Empire in 1906 . Schnelldorfer then appeared in well-known German ice revues for four years; he had previously turned down offers from US revues with salaries in the millions.

Schnelldorfer was also active as a "singing athlete" as a pop singer and actor before becoming a trainer and specialist sports teacher. From 1974 to 1981 he was the first national ice skating coach. Manfred Schnelldorfer lives in Munich and had his own sports shop until 1995.

In addition to figure skating, he also practiced roller figure skating and was third in the men's world championships in 1958. Schnelldorfer is considered to be the discoverer of the figure skaters Rudi Cerne and Norbert Schramm .

Schnelldorfer is married and has a daughter who is now with Eckart Witzigmann .

Results

Competition / year	1954	1955	1956	1957	1958	1959	1960	1961	1962	1963	1964
Olympic games							8th.				1.
World championships		-	Z	11.	15th	-	7th		5.	3.	1.
European championships		10.	10.	7th	7th	5.	3.	3.	3.	2.	2.
German championships	1st J	2.	1.	1.	1.	1.	1.	1.	-	1.	1.

• Z = withdrawn
• J = juniors

Schlager by Manfred Schnelldorfer

Chart positions Explanation of the data

Singles

When you're alone   DE 4th 09/01/1964 (16 weeks) There is nothing to be gained from being sad   DE 31 02/12/1965 (2 weeks)

• 1964: When you're alone (400,000 sold)
• 1964: Mizzie
• 1965: Being sad does not bring anything
• 1965: Your beautiful blue eyes

Filmography

• 1964: Holiday in St. Tropez
• 1964: The merry women of Tyrol
• 1965: I prefer to buy a Tyrolean hat
• 1965: A vacation bed with 100 hp
• 1965: A thousand beats of high spirits
• 1966: The haunted castle in the Salzkammergut
• 1966: Come with me to the blue Adriatic
• 2010: The R-Team - The sprightly retired comedy

Individual evidence

1. ^ WDR 2 due date : May 2, 1943, birthday of the figure skater Manfred Schnelldorfer
2. ^ Report of the Federal Government to the Bundestag of September 29, 1973 - Printed matter 7/1040 - pages 54 ff., Here page 57
3. ↑ tz.de: The hit of my life
4. ↑ Chart sources: DE

Web links

Commons : Manfred Schnelldorfer  - Collection of images, videos and audio files

• Manfred Schnelldorfer in the database of Sports-Reference (English; archived from the original )
• Website for the 60th birthday of Manfred Schnelldorfer ( Memento from June 21, 2007 in the Internet Archive )