Peggy Black

Peggy Black
nation	German Democratic Republic of Germany
birthday	4th September 1971
place of birth	Berlin
size	160 cm
Weight	48 kg
Career
discipline	Pair skating
Partner	Alexander König, Mirko Müller
society	SC Berlin
Trainer	Heidemarie Steiner-Walther, Knut Schubert
status	resigned
End of career	2000
Medal table
World Cup medals 0 × 0 × 1 × EM medals 0 × 0 × 1 ×
World figure skating championships bronze Minneapolis 1998 Couples  European figure skating championships bronze Prague 1988 Couples
Placements in the figure skating Grand Prix
Podium placements 1. 2. 3.  Grand Prix Final 0 0 0  Grand Prix competitions 0 3 3

Peggy Schwarz (born September 4, 1971 in Berlin ) is a former German figure skater who competed in pair skating for the GDR and Germany .

She grew up with her single mother and began figure skating in 1975. She started pair skating at the age of 9. Her first partner was Olaf Stenzel. Since 1985 she ran with Alexander König . She started for SC Dynamo Berlin and SC Berlin . Your trainer was Heidemarie Steiner-Walther .

Schwarz and König at the GDR championships in 1987

With König, she became East German pair skating champion in 1988 and won the bronze medal at the European Championships in Prague behind the Soviet couples Yekaterina Gordejewa and Sergei Grinkow as well as Larissa Selesnjowa and Oleg Makarow . Her best result at world championships was fourth place in 1989 . At the Olympic Games in 1988 , 1992 and 1994 , they each finished seventh. In 1990 Peggy Schwarz and Alexander König changed their coach. From then on, Knut Schubert was the coach . In 1992, Schwarz and König also became German pair skating champions . In 1994, Peggy Schwarz took a baby break. Her son was born on April 1st, 1995, father is Heiko Brestrich , a former soccer player.

Since May 1996 she trained and started with Mirko Müller . Her trainer was again Knut Schubert. From 1998 to 2000 they were German champions . At the European Championships in 1999 and 2000 they just missed a medal in fourth place. Her greatest success was winning the bronze medal at the 1998 World Cup in Minneapolis behind the Russians Jelena Bereschnaja and Anton Sicharulidze and the Americans Jenni Meno and Todd Sand . The 1998 Olympic Games finished in ninth place. In 2000, Peggy Schwarz ended her active figure skating career due to a chronic hip displacement ( dysplasia ). Peggy Schwarz has been a trainer in Grimma , Saxony , since 2000 . Since 2015 she has been a trainer at Hallescher Eissportclub eV (HEC) in Halle (Saale), Saxony-Anhalt.

Schwarz / König at a show in 1988

Results

Pair skating

(until 1994 with Alexander König , from 1996 with Mirko Müller )

Competition / year	1987	1988	1989	1990	1991	1992	1993	1994	1995	1996	1997	1998	1999	2000
winter Olympics		7th				7th		7th				9.
World championships			4th	10.	7th	6th	12.	9.			10.	3.	8th.	8th.
European championships		3.		4th		5.	5.	7th			6th	5.	4th	4th
GDR championships	3.	1.
German championships					2.	1.	Z	2.			2.	1.	1.	1.

Z = withdrawn

Web links

• Peggy Schwarz in the Sports-Reference database (English; archived from the original )
• Photo page in the figure skating corner