Eberhard Rüger is a German former

ice dancer Ice dance (sometimes referred to as ice dancing) is a discipline of figure skating that historically draws from ballroom dancing. It joined the World Figure Skating Championships in 1952, and became a Winter Olympic Games medal sport in 1976. A ...

who represented

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. With his skating partner, Annerose Baier, he became a three-time

Blue Swords Blue Swords () is an international figure skating competition organized by the Deutsche Eislauf-Union. It is usually held in Chemnitz, Saxony, Germany. Medals are awarded in the disciplines of Single skating, men's singles, women's singles, pair ...

champion (1963,

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), the 1968 Prize of Moscow News champion, and an eight-time East German national champion (1962, 1964–1970). They finished in the top ten at eight ISU Championships. Their best continental result, fourth, came at the 1970 European Championships in

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, Soviet Union. They finished as high as sixth at the World Championships, in

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, United States) and

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, Yugoslavia). Baier/Rüger started their career at SC Wismut Karl-Marx-Stadt. In 1963, they began representing

SC Karl-Marx-Stadt SC Karl-Marx-Stadt was a sports club located at Karl-Marx-Stadt in the German Democratic Republic. Established in 1945, the sports club went through a variation of name changes until 1 July 1963, settling with SC Karl-Marx-Stadt, which lasted unt ...

. Rüger was married to German figure skater

Gabriele Seyfert Gabriele "Gaby" Seyfert (later Rüger, then Messerschmidt, now Körner, born 23 November 1948) is a German former figure skater. She is a two-time World champion (1969, 1970), and the 1968 Olympic silver medalist. She is the first lady to succ ...

from 1972 to 1975. Their daughter, Sheila, was born in 1974.

Competitive highlights

With Baier

References

{{DEFAULTSORT:Ruger, Eberhard 20th-century births German male ice dancers Living people Figure skaters from Chemnitz Year of birth missing (living people) East German male figure skaters Sportspeople from Bezirk Karl-Marx-Stadt