Norbert Schramm

Norbert Schramm (born April 7 1960 in Nürnberg (Franken), Bavaria, Germany) is a German figure skater.

Norbert Schramm twice won the European Championships, and also twice won the silver medal at the World Championships. Norbert Schramm began skating at age 6. His coach was Erich Zeller. He trained at the national center in Oberstdorf, and skated for the EC Oberstdorf club representing West Germany. He was part of a very strong West German team together with Rudi Cerne and Heiko Fischer. At the nationals in 1982 Norbert Schramm came only in 3rd position but won the Europeans just a few weeks later. Also one year later he won the Europeans but did not win the German championships. Norbert Schramm won a total of three national titles.

He was famous for creating new spins and reinventing old forgotten pirouettes.

In 1984 Norbert Schramm retired from amateur competition and became professional world champion in Washington, D.C., U.S.. He also appeared in ice shows.

He was married to Nicola Brown, and his daughter Bernadette Schramm was born in 1994.

Norbert Schramm began coaching figure skaters in 1988. In 1993 he left the figure skating scene but returned in 1997. From 2002 till 2007 he was artistic director of the ice show at Europapark. In 2006 he was a representative of the German "Dancing on Ice" television show.

Currently, Norbert Schramm lives in Germany. He works as a choreographer and occasionally works for/with television programs.

Results

Olympic Winter Games

• 1984 – 9th place

World Championships

• 1979 – 16th place
• 1980 – not participated
• 1981 – 7th place
• 1982 – 2nd place
• 1983 – 2nd place
• 1984 – withdrawn

European Championships

• 1979 – 11th place
• 1980 – not participated
• 1981 – 3rd place
• 1982 – 1st place
• 1983 – 1st place
• 1984 – 3rd place

German Championships (Nationals)

• 1977 – 6th place
• 1978 – 5th place
• 1979 – 1st place
• 1980 – 2nd place
• 1981 – 1st place
• 1982 – 3rd place
• 1983 – 2nd place
• 1984 – 1st place

Junior World Championships

• 1976 – 4th place

External links

• Norbert Schramm Homepage broken link
• Norbert Schramm Ice show Productions broken link