Romy Kermer

Romy Kermer, married. Austria ( born June 28, 1956 in Karl- Marx-Stadt ) is a former German figure skater, which was launched in pair skating for the GDR.

She began figure skating in Karl- Marx-Stadt. There she also began with the pair running at trainer Irene Salzmann. Her partner was Tassilo Thierenbach. 1972 Kermer went to Berlin and trained there at SC Dynamo Berlin in Heide Marie Steiner -Walther. But you still started in 1973 for the SC Karl- Marx-Stadt and changed officially until this year for the SC Dynamo Berlin. Your figure skating partner in Berlin, Rolf Oesterreich.

On the side of Rolf Oesterreich it was in the absence of Manuela large and Uwe Kagelmann immediately GDR Champion. 1973 During their European Championship debut in Cologne Kermer and Austria occupied the sixth place in 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, Romy Kermer and Rolf Austria for the first time East German 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 Kermer and Austria 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.

Romy Kermer and Rolf Oesterreich married after their active figure skating time. Kermer was coach at SC Berlin. Currently she trains in Berlin, the German squad members Paul Fentz, Vanessa Bauer and Nolan Seegert and a group of young skaters which include Vanessa Grallert, Thomas Stoll, Yegor Esslinger and Maelle Oberlander belong.

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