Uwe Kagelmann

Uwe Kagelmann
Uwe Kagelmann and Manuela Groß at the ISU show in 1976 in Berlin
nation	German Democratic Republic
birthday	September 6, 1950
place of birth	Dresden
size	180 cm
Weight	74 kg
Career
discipline	Pair skating
Partner	Manuela Gross
society	SC Dynamo Berlin
Trainer	Heinz-Friedrich Lindner
status	resigned
End of career	1976
Medal table
Olympic medals 0 × 0 × 2 × World Cup medals 0 × 0 × 2 × EM medals 0 × 0 × 2 ×
winter Olympics bronze Sapporo 1972 Couples bronze Innsbruck 1976 Couples  World figure skating championships bronze Bratislava 1973 Couples bronze Colorado Springs 1975 Couples  European figure skating championships bronze Gothenburg 1972 Couples bronze Copenhagen 1975 Couples

Uwe Kagelmann (born September 6, 1950 in Dresden ) is a former German figure skater who competed internationally in pair skating for the GDR .

He began figure skating as a single skater and also competed in the GDR men's championships until 1967. Since 1967 he started pair skating with Manuela Groß for SC Dynamo Berlin . Your trainer was Heinz Lindner .

Uwe Kagelmann and Manuela Groß with trainer Heinz Lindner at the GDR championships in 1974

In 1969 and 1970, Kagelmann and Groß were GDR runner-up behind Heidemarie Steiner and Heinz-Ulrich Walther . They made their international debut at the 1969 European Championships in Garmisch-Partenkirchen , where they finished seventh. Her world championship debut followed a year later in Ljubljana and also ended in seventh place when Steiner and Walther won bronze medals. In 1971, 1972 and 1974 Kagelmann and Groß became GDR champions . From 1971 to the end of their career in 1976, they did not end a world - u. European championship worse than in fourth place. They won their first medal at the European Championships in Göteborg in 1972 . Also at the Olympic Games in Sapporo a little later, Kagelmann and Groß won the bronze medal behind the Soviet couples Irina Rodnina and Alexei Ulanow as well as Lyudmila Smirnova and Andrei Suraikin . The GDR couple won their first world championship medal in 1973 in Bratislava with bronze behind the newly formed couples from the Soviet Union Irina Rodnina and Alexander Saizew as well as Lyudmila Smirnowa and Alexei Ulanow. 1974 cost the reigning GDR masters Kagelmann and Groß their competition from their own country a medal. Romy Kermer and Rolf Oesterreich finished both the European and World Championships ahead of them, pushing them to fourth place. In 1975 and 1976 they were replaced by Kermer and Austria at the national championships as the best GDR pair. Nevertheless, 1975 turned out to be the most successful year for Kagelmann and Groß. They won the bronze medal both at the European Championships in Copenhagen and at the World Championships in Colorado Springs , both times behind Rodnina / Saizew and Kermer / Austria. This result was repeated at the 1976 Olympic Games in Innsbruck . Four years after Sapporo, Kagelmann and Groß won Olympic bronze again. This result was not expected after they had finished fourth at the European Championships shortly before and the Soviet couple Irina Vorobjowa and Alexander Vlasow had to pass. However, the couple from the Soviet Union made mistakes at the Olympic Games and so it was enough for the GDR runner-up to the bronze medal, very close ahead of the Soviet Union and the Americans Tai Babilonia and Randy Gardner . The last appearance of the couple Kagelmann and Groß followed at the 1976 World Cup . Here the tide turned again and as fourth they just missed a medal against Vorobyova and Vlasov.

The trio Groß / Kagelmann / Lindner invented the new jumping and pair skating element "GroKaLi". Manuela Groß and Uwe Kagelmann were the first couple in the world to show the double throwing axel (December 1971 in Moscow) and the triple throwing load .

Uwe Kagelmann became a qualified sports teacher and is now a trainer at the Feldkirch ice sports club Happy on Ice in Austria .

Results

Pair skating

(with Manuela Groß )

Competition / year	1969	1970	1971	1972	1973	1974	1975	1976
winter Olympics				3.				3.
World championships		7th	4th	4th	3.	4th	3.	4th
European championships	7th	7th	4th	3.	4th	4th	3.	4th
GDR championships	2.	2.	1.	1.		1.	2.	2.

Web links

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• Uwe Kagelmann in the Sports-Reference database (English; archived from the original )