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Olympic medal record
Figure skating
Competitor for  East Germany
Silver	1968 Grenoble	Ladies' singles

Gabriele ("Gaby") Seyfert (born November 23, 1948 in Chemnitz) is a former German figure skater.

Contents 1 Biography 2 Results 2.1 Olympic Winter Games 2.2 World championships 2.3 European championships 2.4 East-German Nationals 3 Books 4 Navigation

[edit] Biography

She skated for the club SC Karl-Marx-Stadt and was representing the GDR (East-Germany). Her coach was her mother Jutta Müller.

Seyfert was a long-time rival of Peggy Fleming (U.S.), but could never win against her.

She was one of the first world famous sport-stars of East Germany. In 1966, after two silver medals at the Europeans and the Worlds, she was voted as “The GDR female athlete of the year”. 1968 she became the first woman to land a clean triple Loop.

In 1970 she finished her figure skating career surprisingly. Her daughter Sheila was born in 1972. Unlike Peggy Fleming she could not skate for the ice revue Holiday on Ice. The offers made by Holiday on Ice were refused by East German authorities.

At first Seyfert worked as a coach. In this position she worked together with the very talented skater Anett Pötzsch. Due to the East German coach hierarchy Anett Pötzsch was transferred to the group of Jutta Müller. Totally frustrated about that Gabriele Seyfert quit from being a coach and studied languages at the university and worked as a professional translator. From 1985 to 1991 she led the ice ballet at the Friedrichstadtpalast in East Berlin, where she also skated occasionally. After this ice ballet was closed she became customer supporter in a service industry business in Berlin. She lives now in Berlin-Karow.

[edit] Results

[edit] Olympic Winter Games

• 1964 – 19th place
• 1968 – 2nd place

[edit] World championships

• 1962 – 21st place
• 1965 – 5th place
• 1966 – 2nd place
• 1967 – 2nd place
• 1968 – 2nd place
• 1969 – 1st place
• 1970 – 1st place

[edit] European championships

• 1961 – 21st place
• 1962 – 12th place
• 1963 – 10th place
• 1965 – 5th place
• 1966 – 2nd place
• 1967 – 1st place
• 1968 – 2nd place
• 1969 – 1st place
• 1970 – 1st place

[edit] East-German Nationals

• 1961 – 1st place
• 1962 – 1st place
• 1963 – 1st place
• 1964 – 1st place
• 1965 – 1st place
• 1966 – 1st place
• 1967 – 1st place
• 1968 – 1st place
• 1969 – 1st place
• 1970 – 1st place

[edit] Books

• Seyfert, Gaby: Da muss noch was sein: Mein Leben - mehr als Pflicht und Kür, 1998, ISBN 3-360-00869-3
• Seyfert, Gaby: Auf Wolke eins ist immer Platz. Single sucht Single, 2000, ISBN 3-360-00935-5

[edit] Navigation

v • d • e World champions in figure skating – Ladies' singles 1906–07: Madge Syers-Cave • 1908–11: Lily Kronberger • 1912–14: Opika von Méray Horváth • 1922–26: Herma Szabo • 1927–36: Sonja Henie • 1937: Cecilia Colledge • 1938–39: Megan Taylor • 1947–48: Barbara Ann Scott • 1949–50: Alena Vrzáňová • 1951: Jeannette Altwegg • 1952: Jacqueline du Bief • 1953: Tenley Albright • 1954: Gundi Busch • 1955: Tenley Albright • 1956–60: Carol Heiss • 1962–64: Sjoukje Dijkstra • 1965: Petra Burka • 1966–68: Peggy Fleming • 1969–70: Gabriele Seyfert • 1971–72: Beatrix Schuba • 1973: Karen Magnussen • 1974: Christine Errath • 1975: Dianne de Leeuw • 1976: Dorothy Hamill • 1977: Linda Fratianne • 1978: Anett Pötzsch • 1979: Linda Fratianne • 1980: Anett Pötzsch • 1981: Denise Biellmann • 1982: Elaine Zayak • 1983: Rosalynn Sumners • 1984–85: Katarina Witt • 1986: Debi Thomas • 1987–88: Katarina Witt • 1989: Midori Ito • 1990: Jill Trenary • 1991–92: Kristi Yamaguchi • 1993: Oksana Baiul • 1994: Yuka Sato • 1995: Chen Lu • 1996: Michelle Kwan • 1997: Tara Lipinski • 1998: Michelle Kwan • 1999: Maria Butyrskaya • 2000–01: Michelle Kwan • 2002: Irina Slutskaya • 2003: Michelle Kwan • 2004: Shizuka Arakawa • 2005: Irina Slutskaya • 2006: Kimmie Meissner • 2007: Miki Ando • 2008: Mao Asada • 2009: Kim Yu-Na

v • d • e European champions in figure skating – Ladies' singles 1930: Fritzi Burger · 1931–1936: Sonja Henie · 1937–1939: Cecilia Colledge · 1947–1948: Barbara Ann Scott · 1949: Eva Pawlik · 1950: Alena Vrzáňová · 1951: Jeannette Altwegg · 1952: Jeannette Altwegg · 1953: Valda Osborn · 1954: Gundi Busch · 1955: Hanna Eigel · 1956: Ingrid Wendl · 1957: Hanna Eigel · 1958: Ingrid Wendl · 1959: Hanna Walter · 1960–1964: Sjoukje Dijkstra · 1965–1966: Regine Heitzer · 1967: Gabriele Seyfert · 1968: Hana Mašková · 1969–1970: Gabriele Seyfert · 1971–1972: Beatrix Schuba · 1973–1975: Christine Errath · 1976: Dianne de Leeuw · 1977–1980: Anett Pötzsch · 1981: Denise Biellmann · 1982: Claudia Kristofics-Binder · 1983–1988: Katarina Witt · 1989: Claudia Leistner · 1990: Evelyn Großmann · 1991–1995: Surya Bonaly · 1996–1997: Irina Slutskaya · 1998–1999: Maria Butyrskaya · 2000–2001: Irina Slutskaya · 2002: Maria Butyrskaya · 2003: Irina Slutskaya · 2004: Júlia Sebestyén · 2005–2006: Irina Slutskaya · 2007–2008: Carolina Kostner · 2009: Laura Lepistö

v • d • e East German Champions in Figure Skating – Ladies’ singles 1949: Gudrun Olbricht · 1950: Brigitte Schnellhorn · 1951: G. Poltin · 1952–1954: Inge Kabisch · 1956: M.-K. Dostmann · 1960: Heidemarie Steiner · 1961–1970: Gabriele Seyfert · 1971–1973: Sonja Morgenstern · 1974–1975: Christine Errath · 1976–1980: Anett Pötzsch · 1981–1988: Katarina Witt · 1989: Evelyn Großmann · 1990: Tanja Krienke

Awards
Preceded by Hannelore Suppe	East German Sportswoman of the Year 1966	Succeeded by Karin Janz

Persondata
NAME	Seyfert, Gabriele
ALTERNATIVE NAMES	Rüger-Seyfert, Gabriele
SHORT DESCRIPTION	German figure skater
DATE OF BIRTH	November 23, 1948
PLACE OF BIRTH	Chemnitz, Saxony, Germany
DATE OF DEATH
PLACE OF DEATH