Gabriele Seyfert
Gabriele Seyfert in 1968 |
| Personal information |
| Country represented |
 East Germany |
| Born |
November 23, 1948 (1948-11-23) (age 63) |
| Height |
5'3" (160 cm) |
| Skating club |
SC Karl-Marx-Stadt |
| Retired |
1972 |
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Gabriele ("Gaby") Seyfert (born 23 November 1948 in Chemnitz) is a retired German figure skater. She is a two-time world champion (1969, 1970), and the 1968 Olympic silver medalist.
[edit] Biography
Seyfert skated for the club SC Karl-Marx-Stadt and was representing the GDR (East-Germany). Her coach was her mother Jutta Müller. She was a long-time rival of Peggy Fleming, but was not able to defeat her.
Seyfert was one of the first world famous sport-stars of East Germany. In 1966, after two silver medals at the Europeans and the Worlds, she was voted as “The GDR female athlete of the year”. During 1968 she became the first woman to land a clean triple Loop.
In 1970, she ended her figure skating career surprisingly. Her daughter Sheila was born in 1972. Unlike Peggy Fleming, she could not skate professionally; offers made by Holiday on Ice were refused by East German authorities.
Seyfert turned to coaching, and worked with the Anett Pötzsch in the early 1970s.[1] Due to the East German coach hierarchy, Pötzsch was transferred to the group of Jutta Müller, and Seyfert ended her coaching career. She then studied languages at university and worked as a professional translator. From 1985 to 1991, she led the ice ballet at the Friedrichstadtpalast in East Berlin, where she also skated occasionally. After the ice ballet was closed, she worked at a service industry business in Berlin. She lives in Berlin-Karow.
[edit] Results
[edit] References
- ^ Anett Pötzsch: Germany’s First Golden Girl
- Seyfert, Gaby: Da muss noch was sein: Mein Leben - mehr als Pflicht und Kür, 1998, ISBN 3-360-00869-3
- Seyfert, Gaby: Auf Wolke eins ist immer Platz. Single sucht Single, 2000, ISBN 3-360-00935-5
- [1] SR/Olympic Sports
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| Persondata |
| Name |
Seyfert, Gabriele |
| Alternative names |
Rüger-Seyfert, Gabriele |
| Short description |
German figure skater |
| Date of birth |
November 23, 1948 |
| Place of birth |
Chemnitz, Saxony, Germany |
| Date of death |
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| Place of death |
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East Germany
