Christine Errath

Christine Errath
Christine Errath c. 1974
Personal information
Full name	Christine Stüber-Errath
Country represented	East Germany
Born	29 December 1956 Berlin, East Germany
Height	158 cm (5 ft 2 in)[1]
Former coach	Inge Wischnewski
Former skating club	SC Dynamo Berlin
Retired	1976
Medal record Representing  East Germany Ladies' figure skating Olympic Games 1976 Innsbruck Ladies' singles World Championships 1976 Gothenburg Ladies' singles 1975 Colorado Springs Ladies' singles 1974 Munich Ladies' singles 1973 Prague Ladies' singles European Championships 1976 Geneva Ladies' singles 1975 Copenhagen Ladies' singles 1974 Zagreb Ladies' singles 1973 Cologne Ladies' singles

Christine Errath (born 29 December 1956) is a German former figure skater who represented East Germany in competition. She is the 1976 Olympic bronze medalist, the 1974 World champion, and a three-time European champion.

Career

Coached by Inge Wischnewski,^[2] Errath trained at SC Dynamo Berlin and competed for East Germany.

Being especially strong in free skating, Errath benefited from the reduction in value of compulsory figures introduced in 1972. She became World champion in 1974^[3] and a three-time European champion between 1973 and 1975.^[4]

Until 1973, Errath's chief rival was Sonja Morgenstern, an East German coached by Jutta Müller. In 1976, her main rival was Anett Pötzsch, also coached by Müller. Errath took bronze at the 1976 European Championships and at the 1976 Winter Olympics. She retired after winning the silver medal at the 1976 World Championships.

Personal life

Errath was formerly married to Ulrich Trettin, a former East German tennis champion, with whom she has two children, Jenny and Marcus. In 2006 she remarried, to orthodontist Paul Stüber, and is now known as Christine Stüber-Errath.

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").^[5][6] In 2010 she published her book Die Pirouettenköigin (Pirouette Queen).^[1]

Results

International
Event	1968–69	1969–70	1970–71	1971–72	1972–73	1973–74	1974–75	1975–76
Winter Olympics				8th				3rd
World Champ.			9th	10th	3rd	1st	3rd	2nd
European Champ.	18th		7th	5th	1st	1st	1st	3rd
Richmond Trophy				1st
National
East German Champ.	3rd	3rd	2nd	2nd	2nd	1st	1st

References

1. Christine Errath. sports-reference.com
2. "Weltmeister-Trainerin Inge Wischnewski verstorben" [World champion coach Inge Wischnewski has died]. Deutsche Presse-Agentur (in German). westline.de. 13 July 2010. Archived from the original on 10 June 2014.
3. "World Championships results: Ladies" (PDF). International Skating Union. Archived from the original (PDF) on 13 May 2013.
4. "European Championships results: Ladies" (PDF). International Skating Union. Archived from the original (PDF) on 3 March 2013.
5. Historie. eklscberlin.arcgraph.de
6. Der Moderator Hans-Joachim Wolfram. mdr.de (22 December 2010)