Peter Sczypa

With Sarah Hecken

Peter Sczypa (born April 19, 1948 in Siemianowice as Piotr Jan Sczypa ) is a German figure skating coach. For his home country Poland he used to be an internationally successful pair skater.

Figure skater

He formed a couple with Janina Poremska , from 1971 with Teresa Skrzek and achieved the following placements:

• 1966 European Championships 18.
• 1967 European Championships 8.
• 1967 World Championships 14.
• 1968 European Championships 15.
• 1968 World Championships 16.
• 1968 Winter Olympics 14.
• 1969 European Championships 8.
• 1970 European Championships 9.
• 1970 World Championships 10.
• 1971 European Championships 13.
• 1971 World Championships 17.
• 1972 European Championships 12.
• 1973 European Championships 10.
• 1973 World Championships 16.
• 1974 European Championships 11.
• 1975 European Championships 11.

Figure skating coach

With Julia Pfrengle and Claudia Leistner

Peter Sczypa studied business administration and sport in Katowice. In 1979 he went to Denmark and became a coach. In 1986 he came to Oberstdorf as the national coach of the German Ice Skating Union. In 1988 he became state trainer of the Baden-Württemberg Ice Sports Association and club trainer of the Mannheim ERC . As a federal freelance trainer, he also looks after the ice skaters at the Rhine-Neckar Olympic base. Sczypa achieved extraordinary success in Germany. He trained Claudia Leistner (European Champion and Vice World Champion), Stefan Pfrengle , Anuschka Gläser , Katharina Häcker , Christiane Berger , Denise Zimmermann , Shira Willner , Julia Pfrengle , Sarah Hecken (Olympic Games 2010) and Nathalie Weinzierl (Olympic Games 2014).

literature

• Sybille Dornseif: Fit in time for the third games. In: Mannheimer Morgen . February 17, 2014, p. 13

Web links

Commons : Piotr Sczypa  - collection of images, videos and audio files

• Peter Sczypa in the database of Sports-Reference (English; archived from the original )