Bernd Wunderlich (figure skater)

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Bernd Wunderlich
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Wunderlich at the 1972 Prague Skate
Figure skating career
Country East Germany
Coach Inge Wischnewski
Skating club SC Dynamo Berlin
Retiredc. 1975

Bernd Wunderlich is a German former competitive figure skater who represented East Germany. He won the 1973 Friendship Cup in Bucharest [1] and the 1975 East German national title. [2] A competitor at three European Championships and three World Championships, he achieved his best result, seventh, at the 1975 Europeans in Copenhagen, Denmark. He was coached by Inge Wischnewski [3] and represented SC Dynamo Berlin. [2]

Competitive highlights

International
Event70–7171–7272–7373–7474–75
World Champ. 17th13th14th
European Champ. 11th9th7th
Prize of Moscow News 6th3rd
Prague Skate 9th5th5th
Blue Swords 2nd2nd2nd
Friendship Cup1st
National
East German Champ. 3rd2nd2nd3rd1st

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References

  1. "Eiskunstlauf" [Figure skating] (in German). Neues Deutschland Archiv. 2 April 1973.
  2. 1 2 "Alle drei Meistertitel an Dynamo-Eiskunstläufer" [All three titles go to Dynamo's figure skaters] (in German). Neues Deutschland Archiv. 22 December 1974.
  3. Unger, Andreas (28 October 2010). "Inge Wischnewski (Geb. 1930)" [Inge Wischnewski (born 1930)]. Der Tagesspiegel (in German).