Olympic Figure Skaters of Germany: Aliona Savchenko, Robin Szolkowy, Sarah Hecken, Katarina Witt, Stefan Lindemann, Mandy Wötzel, Ingo Steuer

Please note that the content of this book primarily consists of articles available from Wikipedia or other free sources online. Pages: 25. Chapters: Aliona Savchenko, Robin Szolkowy, Katarina Witt, Sarah Hecken, Ingo Steuer, Stefan Lindemann, Tanja Szewczenko, Mandy W tzel, Daniel Wende, Christina Beier, Rico Rex, Sepp Sch nmetzler, Maylin Hausch, William Beier, Kati Winkler, Ren Lohse, Ernst Baier, Alexander K nig, Peggy Schwarz, Maxi Herber, Axel Rauschenbach, Norman Jeschke, Marina Kielmann, Patricia Neske, Eva-Maria Fitze, Ria Baran, Paul Falk, Heinrich Burger, Werner Rittberger, Gundi Busch, Ralph Borghard, Franz Ningel, Eberhard Rausch, Mirko M ller, Elsa Rendschmidt, Anna H bler, Viktoria Lindpaitner, Freimut Stein, Ellen Brockh ft, Otto Wei, Margret G bl. Excerpt: Aliona Savchenko (Ukrainian: / Olena Valentinivna Savchenko, also Romanized Aljona Sawtschenko; born 19 January 1984 in Kiev, Ukraine SSR, Soviet Union) is a German-Ukrainian pair skater. With partner Robin Szolkowy, she is a three-time (2008, 2009, 2011) World Champion, the 2010 Olympic bronze medalist, a four-time (2007-2009, 2011) European Champion, the 2007-08 and 2010-11 Grand Prix Final Champion, and a seven-time (2004-2009, 2011) German National Champion. With former partner Stanislav Morozov, she won the 2000 World Junior Championships and was the 2000 & 2001 Ukrainian Champion. They represented Ukraine at the 2002 Winter Olympics, where they placed 15th. Savchenko & Szolkowy scored the first 10.0 ever given by a judge under the ISU Judging System. Aliona Savchenko was born in Obukhiv, near Kiev. Her father is a former weightlifter and she has three brothers. She is the only athlete of the four. In April 2010, Savchenko became godmother to Galina Efremenko's daughter. Savchenko began skating at age 3 and practiced with her father on a lake. He wanted to take her to a figure skating school in Kiev when she was four, but was told that she was too young; she was admitted a year later. Sa...