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| Full name | Christine Stüber-Errath | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Born | (1956-12-29)29 December 1956 (age 69) East Berlin, East Germany | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Height | 158 cm (5 ft 2 in)[1] | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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| Retired | 1976 | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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Christine Errath (laterTrettin thenStüber, born 29 December 1956) is a German formerfigure skater who representedEast Germany in competition. She is the1976 Olympic bronze medalist, the1974 World champion, and a three-timeEuropean champion.
Coached byInge Wischnewski,[2] Errath trained atSC 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 wasSonja Morgenstern, an East German coached byJutta Müller. In 1976, her main rival wasAnett Pötzsch, also coached by Müller. Errath took bronze at the1976 European Championships and at the1976 Winter Olympics. She retired after winning the silver medal at the1976 World Championships.
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 asChristine Stüber-Errath.
Errath currently works for the German TV station MDR, which produces programs in the German states ofSaxony,Thuringia, andSaxony-Anhalt. She hosts the show "Außenseiter Spitzenreiter" (“Top model Outsider”) with Hans-Joachim Wolfram (creator of theDynamo Dresden hymn "Dynamo Fever").[5][6] In 2010, she published her bookDie Pirouettenkönigin (Pirouette Queen).[1]
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| 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 | |||||||
| Blue Swords | 3rd | 3rd | 2nd | 1st | 1st | 1st | 1st | 1st |
| Prize of Moscow News | 5th | |||||||
| National | ||||||||
| East German Champ. | 3rd | 3rd | 2nd | 2nd | 2nd | 1st | 1st | |