Sonja Morgenstern

Sonja Morgenstern
nation	German Democratic Republic
birthday	January 22, 1955
place of birth	Frankenberg / Sa.
size	155 cm
Career
discipline	Single run
society	SC Karl-Marx-Stadt
Trainer	Jutta Müller
status	resigned
Medal table
EM medals 0 × 0 × 1 ×
European figure skating championships bronze Gothenburg 1972 Ladies

Sonja Morgenstern , divorced Siegel, (born January 22, 1955 in Frankenberg / Sa. ) Is a former German figure skater who started in a single run for the GDR .

Career

Morgenstern started for SC Karl-Marx-Stadt and was trained by Jutta Müller . In 1966 she was the Spartakiade champion in figure skating. Two years later she took part in the Winter Olympics in Grenoble for the GDR . As the first female athlete, she jumped the triple Salchow at the World Championships in Lyon in 1971 and took sixth place with the third best freestyle. Her greatest success was winning the bronze medal at the European Championships in 1972. In the same year she was Olympic sixth.

In 1973 she had to end her figure skating career due to injury and studied pedagogy in Zwickau . She had to give up teaching in 1981 because her son Michael needed intensive care for the first four years of life due to illness. Later she completed an adult qualification as a beautician and worked in this profession.

Morgenstern also briefly trained Stefan Lindemann in the mid-80s .

Results

Championship / year	1968	1969	1970	1971	1972	1973
winter Olympics	28.				6th
World championships	20th	Z	11.	6th	5.	8th.
European championships	17th	12.	9.	4th	3.	Z
GDR championships		2.	2.	1.	1.	1.

• Z = withdrawn

Sonja Morgensterin 1970 with her trainer Jutta Müller

Web links

Commons : Sonja Morgenstern  - Collection of images, videos and audio files

• Sonja Morgenstern in the Sports-Reference database (English; archived from the original )
• We were all at the Stasi , Der Spiegel , November 23, 1992