Kati Winkler

Kati Winkler, married. Schneider ( born January 16, 1974 in Karl- Marx-Stadt ) is a former German figure skater, which was launched in ice dancing.

Career

Kati Winkler is the daughter of Bernd Winkler and Christina Schmerbach. She has a sister. In Karl- Marx-Stadt she came with six years to figure skating, was first single runner and was trained by Peter Meyer. Even as individual runners she went in 1985 to Berlin, where he was coached by Jürgen Bertko.

After René Lohse had two years given up figure skating for other sports, Kati Winkler asked him if he wanted to be her Eistanzpartner. Lohse agreed and so both trained from 1987 to Knut Schubert, who actually specialized on pair skater. After the retirement of the best Eistanzpaares from the GDR, Anne Rose Baier and Eberhard Rüger, the figure skating ice dance discipline had disappeared in the GDR from 1971 to 1989 out of the picture. During this period, no national championships were held in ice dancing. Kati Winkler and René Lohse has been made in re-establishing the discipline in 1990, the last Eistanzmeister the GDR.

1993 debuted Winkler and Lohse at European Championships and 1995 World Championships. 1996, they were all-German champions for the first time. In the same year they went to Oberstdorf to coach Martin Skotnicky. However, getting started for the SC Berlin (formerly SC Dynamo Berlin). Both were regular soldiers and were supported by the German army. Their choreographers were Kelly Johnson, Marc Bogaerts and Werner Lipowsky.

1998 Winkler and Lohse denied their first Olympics and finished it in tenth place. At the World Cup and European Championship they finished in ninth place respectively and were arrived in the advanced world class. Over the next four years they showed continuous performance at World and European Championships and reached rank placements of five to seven. In 2000, she failed to qualify as the first German ice dancers for the Grand Prix Final. There they were fifth. In her second Olympics they finished in eighth place in 2002. A few weeks earlier, Lohse was injured in a practice crash at the knee. In summer 2002, he was injured again when he had a bicycle accident in Oberstdorf. Although he recovered and qualified with his Eistanzpartnerin for the Grand Prix Final, but this they had to cancel at Lohse due to influenza in Winkler and a muscle injury. Due to renewed ligament injuries in Lohse's knee she missed the 2003 World Cup and the European Championship in 2004. Lohse was just in time to fit to participate in the 2004 World Series in their own country, in Dortmund to. There Kati Winkler and René Lohse won the bronze medal. It was the biggest success of German ice dancer who won since 1973 as Angelika and Erich Buck their last world championship medal. In addition to the Bucks Winkler and Lohse are the only German ice dancer who have won a World Championship medal. After their success at the World Championships Winkler and Lohse ended their competitive career.

Kati Winkler is a professional office clerk. Since autumn 2007 she is the mother of a daughter. In December 2008, she married the dentist Oliver Schneider.

Results

Ice Dancing

( with René Lohse )

2004 World Figure Skating Championships Grand Prix of Figure Skating Final Chemnitz 1993 European Figure Skating Championships 1995 World Figure Skating Championships Martin Skotnický 1998 World Figure Skating Championships 1998 European Figure Skating Championships Figure skating at the 2002 Winter Olympics Angelika Buck Winter Olympic Games 1996 World Figure Skating Championships 1997 World Figure Skating Championships 1999 World Figure Skating Championships 2000 World Figure Skating Championships 2001 World Figure Skating Championships 2002 World Figure Skating Championships 1995 European Figure Skating Championships 1996 European Figure Skating Championships 1999 European Figure Skating Championships 2000 European Figure Skating Championships 2001 European Figure Skating Championships 2003 European Figure Skating Championships World Junior Figure Skating Championships East German Figure Skating Championships Skate America Skate Canada International Cup of Russia NHK Trophy International Skating Union German Figure Skating Championships Horst Faber Petra Born Antonia Becherer Ferdinand Becherer Jennifer Goolsbee Stephanie Rauer Thomas Rauer Christina Beier William Beier Carolina Hermann
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