Rolf Österreich
Rolf Austria ( born November 28, 1952 in Rostock ) is a former German figure skater, who started in pair skating for the GDR.
Career
Rolf Oesterreich began figure skating in Berlin. He joined the first pair of running with Marlies Radunsky. With it, he was in 1971 and 1972, third in the GDR championships behind Manuela large and Uwe Kagelmann and Anette Kansy and Axel Salzmann. They took during this period participated in the European Championships and were sixth and seventh.
1972 Austria joined the partner and was henceforth with Romy Kermer. He competed for the SC Dynamo Berlin and trained there at Heidemarie Steiner -Walther.
On the side of Romy Kermer he was in the absence of major / Kagelmann immediately GDR Champion. 1973 During their European Championship debut in Cologne Austria and Kermer occupied the sixth place and at their World Cup debut in Bratislava fifth place. In 1974 she won her first international medals. In Zagreb, they were vice - European champion Irina Rodnina and Alexander Zaitsev behind and beat their surprise Lyudmila Smirnova and Alexei Ulanov from the Soviet Union and the GDR reigning champions United and Kagelmann. At the World Championships in Munich, she had to admit defeat though Smirnova and Ulanov, but remained in turn their fellow countrymen and thus won the bronze medal. 1975, Rolf Oesterreich and Romy Kermer first GDR Champion in the presence of large and Kagelmann. They defended the title a year later. At the European Championships 1975 in Copenhagen as well as in the World Cup 1975 in Colorado Springs, they won the silver medal behind Rodnina and Zaitsev. Silver was the color for Austria and Kermer in the last year of her career, in 1976. Both at the European Championships in Geneva as well as at the Olympic Games in Innsbruck and the World Championships in Gothenburg they had to only the superior pair Rodnina / Zaitsev struck from the Soviet Union give.
Prove Stasi documents that Rolf Oesterreich was doped with anabolic Steoriden. In the central exit check the GDR in 1976 he tested positive and was only allowed to travel to the Olympic Games in Innsbruck, as the doping abuse was no longer detectable.
Romy Kermer and Rolf Oesterreich married after their active figure skating time. Austria became a coach, including at TUS Stuttgart. Since the beginning of the 2012/13 season he coached the young runners of the ERC Ingolstadt.
Results
Pair of running
( until 1972 with Marlies Radunsky, beginning in 1973 with Romy Kermer )