Manuela Ruben

Manuela Ruben (born January 14, 1964 in Lauda , Baden-Württemberg ) is a former German ice and roller art skater .

biography

Manuela Ruben started for the Mannheim ERC , where she was a competitor of her club mate Claudia Leistner for years . Ruben, Carola Paul and Katarina Witt were the first individual skaters at the 1981 World Figure Skating Championships to show the triple flip in their freestyle. Her greatest success was winning the silver medal at the European Championships in 1984. After completing her amateur career, she toured Germany with Theater On Ice in what was then the revue "The Merry Widow". She now has two daughters. On November 3, 2018, her younger sister Nicole died.

Achievements / Results (Figure Skating)

winter Olympics

• 1984 - 7th place - Sarajevo

World championships

• 1981 - 13th place - Hartford
• 1982 - 15th place - Copenhagen
• 1983 - 8th place - Helsinki
• 1984 - 6th place - Ottawa

Junior World Championships

• 1979 - 2nd place - Augsburg
• 1980 - 4th place - Megève

European championships

• 1981 - 10th place - Innsbruck
• 1982 - 14th place - Lyon
• 1983 - 4th place - Dortmund
• 1984 - 2nd place - Budapest

German championships

• 1979 - 9th place
• 1980 - 5th place
• 1981 - 2nd place
• 1982 - 1st place
• 1983 - 1st place
• 1984 - 1st place

Other competitions

• 1982 - 1st place - Nebelhorn Trophy , Oberstdorf

Successes / results (figure roller skating)

World championships

• 1979 - 3rd place - Altenau
• 1980 - 3rd place - Bogotá

European championships

• 1979 - 3rd place - Rotterdam

Web links

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