Sabine Baeß

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Sabine Baeß and Tassilo Thierbach, 1982
Sabine Baeß and Tassilo Thierbach in Karl-Marx-Stadt, 1979
Sabine Baeß and Tassilo Thierbach in Karl-Marx-Stadt, 1983

Sabine Baeß, married Marbach, (born March 15, 1961 in Dresden, Saxony, Germany/GDR/East Germany) is a German figure skater.

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[edit] Life and work

Sabine Baeß became with her skating partner Tassilo Thierbach 1982 World and European champion in pair figure skating, followed by another European title in 1983. 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

[edit] Olympic Winter Games

  • 1980 – 6th place
  • 1984 – 4th place

[edit] World Championships

  • 1978 – 5th place
  • 1979 – 3rd place
  • 1980 – 4th place
  • 1981 – 2nd place
  • 1982 – 1st place
  • 1983 – 2nd place
  • 1984 – 3rd place

[edit] European Championships

  • 1977 – 5th place
  • 1978 – 4th place
  • 1979 – 3rd place
  • 1980 – 4th place
  • 1981 – not participated
  • 1982 – 1st place
  • 1983 – 1st place
  • 1984 – 2nd place

[edit] East German Nationals

  • 1976 – 3rd place
  • 1977 – 3rd place
  • 1978 – 2nd place
  • 1979 – 1st place
  • 1980 – 1st place
  • 1981 – not participated
  • 1982 – 1st place
  • 1983 – 1st place
  • 1984 – 1st place

[edit] Refenrences

East German news papers

  • Junge Welt various issues 1980 to 1990
  • Sportecho various issues from 1980 to 1990
  • Bundesarchiv

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