Manuela Mager

Manuela Mager
Manuela Mager with Uwe Bewersdorf, 1978
nation	German Democratic Republic
birthday	July 11, 1962
place of birth	Dresden, GDR
Career
discipline	Pair skating
Partner	Uwe Bewersdorf
society	SC unit Dresden
Trainer	Uta Hohenhaus
status	resigned
End of career	1980
Medal table
Olympic medals 0 × 0 × 1 × World Cup medals 0 × 2 × 0 × EM medals 0 × 0 × 1 ×
winter Olympics bronze Lake Placid 1980 Couples  World figure skating championships silver Ottawa 1978 Couples silver Dortmund 1980 Couples  European figure skating championships bronze Strasbourg 1978 Couples

Manuela Mager married. Holzapfel (born July 11, 1962 in Dresden ) is a German figure skater who started in pair skating for the GDR .

Mager competed for the SC Einheit Dresden and trained with Uta Hohenhaus . Her figure skating partner was Uwe Bewersdorf .

In 1977 and 1978 Manuela Mager and Uwe Bewersdorf became GDR champions . In 1977 they also made their debut at major international tournaments. At the European Championships in Helsinki they were fourth and at the World Championships in Tokyo fifth. In 1978 they won their first medals. At the European Championships in Strasbourg they won the bronze medal behind the Soviet couples Irina Rodnina and Alexander Saizew as well as Marina Cherkassova and Sergei Shachrai and in Ottawa they were runner-up behind Rodnina / Saizew. In 1979 they did not contest any competitions. In 1980 it was enough for her as the reigning GDR runner-up behind Sabine Baeß and Tassilo Thierbach at the European championship only to fifth place. A little later, however, Mager and Bewersdorf won Olympic bronze in Lake Placid and, after Rodnina / Saizew resigned, they became vice world champions in Dortmund behind Cherkassova and Shachrai.

The couple Mager / Bewersdorf were the first couple in the world to show the triple Wurfrittberger in a competition . Manuela Mager ended her figure skating career in 1980. After the end of her figure skating career, she applied for an exit visa and left the GDR. Today she works as a secretary in Bavaria .

Manuela Mager and Uwe Bewersdorf at the 1974 Blue Swords Cup

Results

Pair skating

(with Uwe Bewersdorf)

Competition / year	1977	1978	1979	1980
winter Olympics				3.
World championships	5.	2.		2.
European championships	4th	3.		5.
GDR championships	1.	1.		2.

Manuela Mager and Uwe Bewersdorf at the GDR championships in 1979

Web links

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• Manuela Mager in the Sports-Reference database (English; archived from the original )