Peter Liebers
Peter Lieber ( born April 16, 1988 in East Berlin ) is a German figure skater who starts in a single run.
Peter Lieber is the son of Kerstin and Mario Lieber and brother of Martin Lieber; the latter two were or are also skaters. The Sportsman of the SC Berlin trained with Romy Austria and Jürgen Bertko, currently he is looked after by Viola Striegler.
Lieber ' figure skating career was overshadowed by several setbacks. In July 2005, he was injured during a training course at the ankle; in September he was able to train again. In October 2006, Lieber broke his fibula in training and had to sit the entire season.
On his comeback to the German Championships 2008 in Berlin took second place behind Clemens Brummer. The 2008 European Championships in Zagreb, Croatia, he finished as the Thirteenth, in which he (11 rank ) a quadruple toe loop and a triple Axel showed in the freestyle and he therefore could fight his way from his 21st place after the short program at the 15th position itself. At the 2008 World Championships in Gothenburg, Sweden and 2009 in Los Angeles, he retired in each case after the short program ( positions 32 and 25 ) from. Peter Lieber qualified for participation in the Senior Grand Prix series 2008/2009 and 2009 /2010. His first international medal in the senior, he won the Nebelhorn Trophy 2010.
2011 he won at the German Championships in Oberstdorf with outstanding 210.07 points, its second league title and qualified for the European and World Championships in 2011. At the European Championships in Bern, he finished in eleventh place. At the World Championships in Moscow, Lieber could qualify for a World Cup for the final and reached 15th place to be at this time best World Cup result for the first time.
In the summer of 2011, Peter Lieber again broke a leg in a training camp in Canada. Because of the training backlog of several months he had to then cancel the Grand Prix series.
In 2013, Lieber managed with the tenth place at the European Championships and eleventh place at the World Championships each his best finishes in these tournaments.
In 2014 he was able to improve on the sixth place at the European Championship again. At the Olympic Games in Sochi in 2014 he ran fifth in the short program, the free skating in the startup group of the worlds best and reached the eighth.