Uwe Kagelmann (born 6 September 1950 in
Dresden
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,
Saxony
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,
East Germany
East Germany, officially known as the German Democratic Republic (GDR), was a country in Central Europe from Foundation of East Germany, its formation on 7 October 1949 until German reunification, its reunification with West Germany (FRG) on ...
/
GDR
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) is a German former competitive
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 ...
. Competing with
Manuela Groß
Manuela Manja Groß (later Leupold, born 29 January 1957 in East Berlin, East Germany) is a German former competitive pair skater. With partner Uwe Kagelmann, she is a two-time Olympic bronze medalist, and she is the youngest female figure skat ...
, he was a two-time bronze medalist at the Olympics. He later became a figure skating coach.
The pair skated for the
SV Dynamo
The Sportvereinigung Dynamo () (''Dynamo Sports Association'') was the Sports associations (East Germany), sport association of the security agencies (Volkspolizei, Stasi, Ministry for State Security, fire department and customs) of former East ...
club and represented East Germany. Their coach was
Heinz-Friedrich Lindner. He now works as a figure skating coach at the
Feldkircher Eislauf Verein Montfort club in
Austria
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.
Results
pairs with Groß
See also
*
World Figure Skating Championships
The World Figure Skating Championships are an annual figure skating competition sanctioned by the International Skating Union (ISU). The first World Championships were held in 1896 in Saint Petersburg, Russia, and they have been held e ...
References
External links
*https://web.archive.org/web/20060502042510/http://www.eklscberlin.arcgraph.de/
*https://web.archive.org/web/20060903184859/http://www.feldkirch.org/
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1950 births
Living people
Figure skaters from Dresden
German male pair skaters
Olympic figure skaters for East Germany
East German male figure skaters
Figure skaters at the 1972 Winter Olympics
Figure skaters at the 1976 Winter Olympics
Olympic bronze medalists for East Germany
Olympic medalists in figure skating
World Figure Skating Championships medalists
European Figure Skating Championships medalists
Medalists at the 1976 Winter Olympics
Medalists at the 1972 Winter Olympics
Recipients of the Patriotic Order of Merit in bronze
Figure skaters from Bezirk Dresden
German figure skating coaches
German expatriate sportspeople in Austria