Christine Errath

Christine Errath

Personal information
Country represented:	East Germany (represented)
Date of birth:	December 29, 1956 (1956-12-29) (age 53)
Former coach:	Inge Wischnewski
Skating club:	SC Dynamo Berlin
Retired:	1976

Olympic medal record
Competitor for  East Germany
Ladies Figure Skating
Bronze	1976 Innsbruck	Singles

Christine Errath (born December 29, 1956, in Berlin, Germany) is a German figure skater who represented East Germany in competition. She is the 1976 Olympic bronze medalist.

Biography

Errath skated for the club SC Dynamo Berlin where she was coached by Inge Wischnewski.

She was especially strong in free skating. In 1972 the changes in judging rules lead to a reduction of the importance of compulsory figures, and this worked to her advantage in winning competitions. Representing East Germany, she was World Champion in 1974, three-time European Champion between 1973 and 1975, and winner of the bronze medal at the 1976 Winter Olympics.

Until 1973 her chief rival was Sonja Morgenstern, another skater from East Germany who was coached by Jutta Müller. In 1976 she faced another serious rival named Anett Pötzsch, also coached by Jutta Müller. Errath lost the competition to Pötzsch at the 1976 Europeans, winning only the bronze medal, but came back to medal at the Olympics and the next Worlds.

Errath was married to Ulrich Trettin, a former East German tennis champion. The marriage ended in divorce. She is a mother of two children.

Christine Errath currently works for the German TV station MDR, which produces programs in the German states of Saxony, Thuringia, and Saxony-Anhalt. She hosts the show "Außenseiter Spitzenreiter" (“Top model Outsider”) with Hans-Joachim Wolfram (creator of the Dynamo Dresden hymn "Dynamo Fever"). ^{[1] [2]}

Results

References

ISU World Championships Results: LadiesPDF

• ISU European Championships Results: LadiesPDF

External links

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