Manfred Schnelldorfer

Manfred Schnelldorfer ( born 2 May 1943 in Munich ) is a former German figure skater, who started in a single run. He is the Olympic champion of 1964 and the world champion of 1964.

Sport and Occupation

Already eight years won Manfred Schnelldorfer his first championship in figure skating. He was supervised and trained by his parents, who were both well-known skating coach. He started for ERC Munich and thus for the Federal Republic of Germany.

In his only German Junior Championships he was defeated yet by Hans -Jürgen Baumler, while Manfred Schnelldorfer won only one year later at the German Championships of seniors. Here, Hans -Jürgen Baumler only fourth. Later he studied alongside Although 8 semesters architecture, but the skating did not let him come to a conclusion.

The highlight of his career was winning the gold medal in figure skating at the Olympic Games Men's 1964 in Innsbruck. The Olympic victory Manfred Schnell Dorfers was surprising. The real favorite was Alain Calmat from France, who was from 1962 to 1964 European Champion and Vice World Champion 1963. Schnelldorfer is still the only German Olympic champion in figure skating men.

Overall, Manfred Schnelldorfer eight times German champion (1956-1961, 1963-1964), three times European Cup Third (1960-1962) and twice Vice-European Champion (1963-1964) and after his Olympic victory in 1964 world champion. It was the first World Cup victory of the Germans after the born in Austria, but starting for the German Reich Gilbert Fuchs in 1906. Schnelldorfer Then came four years into known ice shows.

Was Schnelldorfer as " singing athletes " also works as a pop singer and actor before he became a coach and physical education teacher. From 1974 to 1981 he was the first skating national coach. Manfred Schnelldorfer lives in Munich and had until 1995 its own ski shop.

In addition to figure skating, he carried out Rollkunstlauf and was here in 1958, third in the world championships of Lords.

Results

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  • J = Junior

Hit by Manfred Schnelldorfer

Filmography

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