Jan Hoffmann
Jan Hoffmann ( born October 26, 1955 in Dresden ) is a former German figure skater, who started in a single run for the GDR. He is the world champion of 1974 and 1980 and the European Championships in 1974 and 1977 until 1979.
January Hoffman's first coach was Annemarie Halbach in Dresden. He later coached at Jutta Müller in Karl- Marx-Stadt.
Back in 1968, denied Hoffmann at the age of only 12 years, his first Olympic Games. After 1971, each with a fourth place medal narrowly missed out at the World Cup and European Championship and it was a year in his second Olympic Games and at the World Championships in sixth, he won in 1973 with the bronze medals at the World Championships and the European Championship his first major international medals. In 1974 he was finally for the first time the world and European champions, but then had due to a meniscus surgery a small career slump and fell for the entire 1975 season off. In his third Olympics, he missed out on a medal and controversy with his fourth place in 1976. From 1977 to 1979 he was European champion and 1977 and 1978 Vice World Champion, behind Vladimir Kovalev and Charles Tickner. 1980, the end of his career, he became vice - European champion and Olympic silver medalist behind Robin Cousins . At the opening ceremony of the Olympic Games, he was also standard-bearer of the GDR delegation. He brought cousins but in the same year at the World Cup defeat at and secured his second World Cup title. Hoffman ended his career as a nine-time East German champion, four-time European champion and two-time world champion.
Jan Hoffmann studied for his figure skating career medicine and is now working as a specialist in orthopedics in Radeberg near Dresden. The figure skating, he remained as an international jury to receive and was also temporarily a member of the board of the German Skating Union. He is married and has one daughter.