Matzdorf-Pfersdorf
Sonja Matzdorf-Pfersdorf (née Pfersdorf) and Günther Matzdorf (sometimes more correctly documented than Günter ) are a figure skating couple from Nuremberg.
Her greatest sporting success came in 1965 and 1966 at the German championship in pair skating. They represent the roller skating and figure skating department of 1. FC Nürnberg (today independent as 1. FCN roller and ice sports ). In the two years before, they were only beaten by the Kilius / Bäumler couple . From 1963 to 1966, they permanently represented the Federal Republic of Germany on the European and worldwide ice with a rank from 4 to 10.
The Spiegel in 1966 offers an insight into the training and competition conditions at that time:
- Sonja Pfersdorf, 21, secretary at the Nuremberg biscuit factory Bahlsen, and her partner Günter Matzdorf, 25, a sports car driver (Alfa Romeo) and a representative for diamond tools, trained at six in the morning. Matzdorf often took sedative pills before important competitions. At the European Championships in Bratislava they missed a medal because of a fall.
The couple continued to appear in the 1969 sports short film Happening in White by Gunter Sachs .
The acquisition of the Herrensitz Weiherhaus building (erected around 1339) in the Weiherhaus district of Nuremberg by a Matzdorf family is documented in 1986 . Furthermore, in 2011 there is a company and a group of companies with a focus on diamond tools for industry in the same area, which obviously goes back to a Günter Matzdorf.
successes
- Germany
- 1963 - Silver - German Figure Skating Championships
- 1964 - Silver - German Figure Skating Championships
- 1965 - Gold - German Figure Skating Championships
- 1966 - Gold - German Figure Skating Championships
- Europe
- European Figure Skating Championships 1963: 9th place
- European Figure Skating Championships 1964: 4th place
- European figure skating championship 1965: 4th place
- European Figure Skating Championships 1966: 7th place
- world
- World Figure Skating Championship 1963: 10th place
- World Figure Skating Championship 1964: 5th place
- World Figure Skating Championship 1965: 5th place
- World Figure Skating Championship 1966: 5th place
