Sabine Baeß
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 Sabine Baeß and Tassilo Thierbach, 1982 |
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| Country represented |  East Germany |
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| Born | March 15, 1961 Dresden, Saxony, East Germany |
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| Former partner | Tassilo Thierbach | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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Sabine Baeß, married Marbach, (born 15 March 1961 in Dresden, Saxony, Germany/GDR/East Germany) is a German pair skater. With partner Tassilo Thierbach, she is the 1982 World Champion, and two-time European Champion (1982, 1983).
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[edit] Life and work
The pair trained in Karl-Marx-Stadt (today Chemnitz), skated for the club SC Karl-Marx-Stadt and was coached by Irene Salzmann. They were the only figure skating pair representing East Germany winning World or European championships.
The pair Baeß/Thierbach had to skip the 1981 Nationals and Europeans due to Tassilo Thierbach's meniscus surgery in 1980.
Sabine Baeß worked as a figure skating coach in Berlin at the club TSC Berlin.
She is married to Olaf Marbach and lives in Oranienburg/German state Brandenburg. Sabine Baeß has a son named Moritz.
After 1990 (the year of the German reunification) Sabine Baeß participated in iceshows. To do so she teamed up with Tobias Schröter, a former East German champion in pair skating, among other shows they appeared in Friedrichstadtpalast in Berlin.
[edit] Results
pairs (with Thierbach)
| Event | 1975-76 | 1976-77 | 1977-78 | 1978-79 | 1979-80 | 1980-81 | 1981-82 | 1982-83 | 1983-84 |
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| Winter Olympics | 6th | 4th | |||||||
| World Championships | 5th | 3rd | 4th | 2nd | 1st | 2nd | 3rd | ||
| European Championships | 5th | 4th | 3rd | 4th | 1st | 1st | 2nd | ||
| East German Championships | 3rd | 3rd | 2nd | 1st | 1st | 1st | 1st | 1st | |
| Skate America | 1st |
[edit] See also
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East German news papers
- Junge Welt various issues 1980 to 1990
- Sportecho various issues from 1980 to 1990
- Bundesarchiv
- [1] SR/Olympic Sports
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