Uwe Kagelmann

Uwe Kagelmann ( born September 6, 1950 in Dresden ) is a former German figure skater, who started in pair skating for the GDR internationally.

He began skating as a single runner and also stepped up in 1967 under the GDR Men Championships at. Since 1967 he started in pair skating with Manuela Great for the SC Dynamo Berlin. Their coach was Heinz Lindner.

1969 and 1970 were Kagelmann and Great East runner-up behind Heidemarie Steiner and Heinz -Ulrich Walther. Her international debut they had at the European Championships 1969 in Garmisch -Partenkirchen, where they were seventh. Your World Cup debut came a year later in Ljubljana and also ended the bronze medal win by Steiner and Walther with the seventh place. In the years 1971, 1972 and 1974 Kagelmann and Great DDR masters were. From 1971 until her career in late 1976, they finished no worse than World and European Championships in fourth place. Your first medal she won at the 1972 European Championship in Gothenburg. Also at the Olympic Games in Sapporo little later Kagelmann and United won the bronze medal behind the Soviet pairs Irina Rodnina and Alexei Ulanov and Lyudmila Smirnova and Andrei Suraikin. His first World Cup medal won the East German couple in 1973 in Bratislava with bronze behind the newly formed pairs from the Soviet Union Irina Rodnina and Alexander Zaitsev and Lyudmila Smirnova and Alexei Ulanov. 1974 cost the reigning DDR masters Kagelmann and large their competition from their own country a medal. Romy Kermer and Rolf Oesterreich completed both the European as well as the World Cup in front of them and displaced them so each to fourth place. 1975 and 1976 they were replaced by Kermer and Austria also at the national championships as the best DDR pair. Nevertheless, in 1975 the most successful year for Kagelmann and Large. Both at the European Championships in Copenhagen as well as at the World Championships in Colorado Springs, they won the bronze medal, both times behind Rodnina / Zaitsev and Kermer / Austria. This result was repeated in 1976 at the Olympic Games in Innsbruck. Four years after Sapporo won Kagelmann and Great Olympic bronze again. In this case, this result was not expected, after she had recently finished fourth at the European Championships and leave the Soviet pair Irina Worobjowa and Alexander Vlasov had to pass. The couple from the Soviet Union did, however, errors in the Olympics and it was enough for the DDR - runner for the bronze medal, very slightly ahead of the Soviet Union and the Americans Tai Babilonia and Randy Gardner. The last appearance of the couple Kagelmann and large followed at the World Championships in 1976. Here, the tide turned again and so she missed a medal in fourth just against Worobjowa and Vlasov.

The trio Large / Kagelmann / Lindner invented the new jump and pair skating element " GroKaLi ". Manuela large and Uwe Kagelmann showed the double - throw Axel ( in December 1971 in Moscow) and the triple Lutz throw the first pair in the world.

Uwe Kagelmann was qualified sports teacher and is now coach at Feldkirch Ice Sports Club Happy on Ice in Austria.

Results

Pair of running

( with Manuela Large)

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