Christine Errath

Christine Errath ( born December 29, 1956 in Berlin) is a former German figure skater, which was launched in a single run for the GDR. It is the world champion of 1974 and the European Championships of 1973, 1974 and 1975. Moreover, she worked as a presenter.

Errath coached at SC Dynamo Berlin Inge Vishnevsky. She was discovered by her coach while roller skating in Berlin Friedrichshain.

First appearance, she joined in 1969, when she was third in the GDR championships behind Gaby Seyfert and Sonja Morgenstern, a result that was repeated the following year. In 1969 she played her first European Championship, in 1971 their first World Cup in 1972 and their first Olympic Games. Until 1973 was their Dauerrivalin in the GDR Sonja Morgenstern, who was coached by Jutta Müller. Errath they could never defeat at the national level. Errath was considered particularly kürstark, so its very came to meet the rule change in 1972, by which was the devaluation of the duty and the short program was introduced. Your international breakthrough came Errath in 1973. At the European Championships in 1973 in Cologne, she was European Champion in front of the British Jean Scott and the Swiss Karin Iten. At the World Championships in Bratislava, she won the bronze medal behind the Canadian Karen Magnussen and the US-American Janet Lynn. In 1974 Errath was first champion of the GDR. In Zagreb, they defended their European title and celebrated by winning the gold medal at the World Championships in Munich, before the US -American Dorothy Hamill and the Dutch Dianne de Leeuw, their greatest success. She was by Gaby Seyfert second world champion from the GDR. 1975 Errath defended their national title and was in Copenhagen for the third consecutive European Champion, as in the year before Dianne de Leeuw. Your world championship title, however they could not defend in Colorado Springs. They succumbed de Leeuw and Hamill. In 1976 it grew by Anett Pötzsch in their own country again a competitor who was coached by Jutta Müller. So Errath lost the internal battle at the European Championships in Geneva against Pötzsch, who won the victory of de Leeuw silver before Errath. At the World Championships in Gothenburg Errath Pötzsch could conquer again, as well as de Leeuw. She became Vice World Champion behind Dorothy Hamill. At the Olympic Games in Innsbruck they made ​​mistakes and won the bronze medal behind Hamill and de Leeuw. Errath ended her active figure skating career after the season 1976. For her sporting achievements, she was awarded in the GDR in 1974 with the Patriotic Order of Merit.

Christine Errath was married to the East German tennis champion Ulrich Trettin. The couple has two children, Jenny and Marcus. The marriage, however, was divorced. In 2006, she married in Venice the orthodontist Paul Stüber and is now called Christine Stüber - Errath.

She studied German, worked after their sporting career, first at the children's television of the GDR in Berlin -Adlershof. Thereafter, she hosted the MDR television together with Hans -Joachim Wolfram the program " outsider - runner ". In 2007 she finished her television work for personal reasons.

In March 2010, she published the book The Queen pirouettes.

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