Manuela Groß

Manuela Groß ( born January 29, 1957 in Berlin) is a former German figure skater, which was launched in pair skating for the GDR.

She began figure skating in Berlin at the trainer Hildegard Taupadel. It started in 1967 when the sport pairs with Uwe Kagelmann for the SC Dynamo Berlin. Their coach was Heinz Lindner.

1969 and 1970 were large and Kagelmann DDR runner behind Heidemarie Steiner and Heinz -Ulrich Walther. Her international debut they had at the European Championships 1969 in Garmisch -Partenkirchen, where they were seventh. Your World Cup debut came a year later in Ljubljana and also ended the bronze medal win by Steiner and Walther with the seventh place. In the years 1971, 1972 and 1974 Kagelmann and Great DDR masters were. From 1971 until her career in late 1976, they finished no worse than World and European Championships in fourth place. Your first medal she won at the 1972 European Championship in Gothenburg. Also at the Olympic Games in Sapporo little later won big and Kagelmann the bronze medal behind the Soviet pairs Irina Rodnina and Alexei Ulanov and Lyudmila Smirnova and Andrei Suraikin. His first World Cup medal won the East German couple in 1973 in Bratislava with bronze behind the newly formed pairs from the Soviet Union Irina Rodnina and Alexander Zaitsev and Lyudmila Smirnova and Alexei Ulanov. 1974 cost the reigning champions United DDR and Kagelmann their competition from their own country a medal. Romy Kermer and Rolf Oesterreich completed both the European as well as the World Cup in front of them and displaced them so each to fourth place. In 1975 and 1976 they were replaced by Kermer and Austria also at the national championships as the best DDR pair. Nevertheless, in 1975 the most successful year for the young and Kagelmann. Both at the European Championships in Copenhagen as well as at the World Championships in Colorado Springs, they won the bronze medal, both times behind Rodnina / Zaitsev and Kermer / Austria. This result was repeated in 1976 at the Olympic Games in Innsbruck. Won four years after Sapporo Big and Kagelmann again Olympic bronze. In this case, this result was not expected, after she had recently finished fourth at the European Championships and leave the Soviet pair Irina Worobjowa and Alexander Vlasov had to pass. The couple from the Soviet Union did, however, errors in the Olympics and it was enough for the DDR - runner for the bronze medal, very slightly ahead of the Soviet defectors and the pair Tai Babilonia and Randy Gardner from the USA. The last appearance of the couple and the United Kagelmann followed at the World Championships in 1976. Here, the tide turned again and so she missed a medal in fourth just against Worobjowa and Vlasov.

The trio Large / Kagelmann / Lindner invented the new jump and pair skating element " GroKaLi ". Manuela large and Uwe Kagelmann showed the double - throw Axel ( in December 1971 in Moscow) and the triple Lutz throw the first pair in the world.

Great was coach at SC Berlin and trained today, many skaters and has worked as adjudicator.

Results

Pair of running

( with Uwe Kagelmann )

Winter Olympic Games 1973 World Figure Skating Championships 1975 World Figure Skating Championships 1972 European Figure Skating Championships 1975 European Figure Skating Championships East Germany East German Figure Skating Championships Heinz-Ulrich Walther 1969 European Figure Skating Championships 1970 World Figure Skating Championships Alexander Gennadiyevich Zaitsev 1974 European Figure Skating Championships 1974 World Figure Skating Championships 1976 European Figure Skating Championships Randy Gardner (figure skater) 1976 World Figure Skating Championships List of Olympic medalists in figure skating 1971 World Figure Skating Championships 1972 World Figure Skating Championships 1970 European Figure Skating Championships 1971 European Figure Skating Championships 1973 European Figure Skating Championships Margit Senf Brigitte Wokoeck Hans-Georg Dallmer Manuela Mager Uwe Bewersdorf Tassilo Thierbach Birgit Lorenz Knut Schubert Katrin Kanitz Peggy Schwarz Axel Rauschenbach
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