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Margit Senf (born 25 November 1945 in
Leipzig Leipzig (, ; ; Upper Saxon: ; ) is the most populous city in the States of Germany, German state of Saxony. The city has a population of 628,718 inhabitants as of 2023. It is the List of cities in Germany by population, eighth-largest city in Ge ...
) is a former
pair skater Pair skating is a figure skating discipline defined by the International Skating Union (ISU) as "the skating of two persons in unison who perform their movements in such harmony with each other as to give the impression of genuine Pair Skating a ...
who represented
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and the
United Team of Germany The United Team of Germany () was a combined team of athletes from West Germany and East Germany that competed in the 1956, 1960 and 1964 Winter Olympic Games, Winter and Summer Olympic Games. In 1956, the team also included athletes from a third ...
in competition. With partner
Peter Göbel Peter Göbel (born 27 March 1941 in Berlin) is a German former pair skater who represented East Germany and the United Team of Germany in competition. With partner Margit Senf, he won the gold medal at the East German Figure Skating Champions ...
, she won the gold medal at the
East German Figure Skating Championships The East German Figure Skating Championships were a figure skating competition held annually to determine the national champions of the German Democratic Republic, often referred to as ''East Germany''. Skaters competed in the disciplines of m ...
in 1960, 1961, and 1963. In 1961, the pair won the bronze medal at the
European Figure Skating Championships The European Figure Skating Championships are an annual figure skating competition sanctioned by the International Skating Union (ISU). Medals are awarded in single skating, men's singles, women's singles, pair skating, and ice dance. The ...
, and they also competed at the
1964 Winter Olympics The 1964 Winter Olympics, officially known as the IX Olympic Winter Games () and commonly known as Innsbruck 1964 (), were a winter multi-sport event which was celebrated in Innsbruck, Austria, from January 29 to February 9, 1964. The city was a ...
, finishing 14th.


Results

pairs with Göbel


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* 1945 births Living people Sportspeople from Leipzig Figure skaters from Saxony German female pair skaters Figure skaters at the 1964 Winter Olympics Olympic figure skaters for the United Team of Germany European Figure Skating Championships medalists 20th-century German sportswomen {{Germany-figure-skating-bio-stub