Manuela Groß
| Manuela Groß | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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 Manuela Groß and Uwe Kagelmann at the ISU-Show 1976 in Berlin | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Born | 29 January 1957 East Berlin, East Germany | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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| Country |  East Germany | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Skating club | SC Dynamo Berlin | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Retired | 1976 | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Medal record
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Manuela Manja Groß (later Leupold, born 29 January 1957 in East Berlin, East Germany) is a German former competitive pair skater. With partner Uwe Kagelmann, she is a two-time Olympic bronze medalist, and she is the youngest female figure skating Olympic medalist. She turned 15 just four days before the opening of the 1972 Winter Olympics, held in Sapporo, Japan, where she won her first bronze medal in pairs skating.
Groß began figure skating in Berlin. She was paired with Uwe Kagelmann. They skated for the SC Dynamo Berlin club representing East Germany. Their coach was Heinz-Friedrich Lindner.
Groß became a figure skating coach at the SC Berlin club and coaches many recreational figure skaters.
Results[edit]
pairs with Kagelmann
| International | ||||||||
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| Event | 68–69 | 69–70 | 70–71 | 71–72 | 72–73 | 73–74 | 74–75 | 75–76 |
| Olympics | 3rd | 3rd | ||||||
| Worlds | 7th | 4th | 4th | 3rd | 4th | 3rd | 4th | |
| Europeans | 7th | 7th | 4th | 3rd | 4th | 4th | 3rd | 4th |
| Blue Swords | 2nd | 1st | 1st | 1st | 2nd | 1st | ||
| National | ||||||||
| East Germany | 2nd | 2nd | 1st | 1st | 1st | 2nd | 2nd | |
See also[edit]
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Categories:
- 1957 births
- Living people
- Sportspeople from East Berlin
- Figure skaters from Berlin
- German female pair skaters
- Figure skaters at the 1972 Winter Olympics
- Figure skaters at the 1976 Winter Olympics
- Olympic figure skaters for East Germany
- East German female figure skaters
- Olympic bronze medalists for East Germany
- Olympic medalists in figure skating
- World Figure Skating Championships medalists
- European Figure Skating Championships medalists
- Medalists at the 1976 Winter Olympics
- Medalists at the 1972 Winter Olympics
- Recipients of the Patriotic Order of Merit in bronze
- 20th-century German women
- SC Dynamo Berlin athletes
- German figure skating coaches
- Female sports coaches