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| Olympic medal record |
Competitor for  East Germany |
| Women's Figure Skating |
| Bronze |
1976 Innsbruck |
Singles |
| European Championships |
| Gold |
1973 Köln |
Singles |
| Gold |
1974 Kopenhagen |
Singles |
| Gold |
1975 Zagreb |
Singles |
| Bronze |
1976 Genf |
Singles |
| World Championships |
| Bronze |
1973 Bratislava |
Singles |
| Gold |
1974 Munich |
Singles |
| Bronze |
1975 Colorado Springs |
Singles |
| Silver |
1976 Göteborg |
Singles |
Christine Errath (born December 29, 1956, in Berlin, Germany) is a former East German figure skater and Olympic champion.
Errath skated for the club SC Dynamo Berlin where she was coached by Inge Wischnewski. She was especially strong in free skating. In 1972 the changes in judging rules lead to a reduction of the importance of compulsory figures, and this worked to her advantage in winning competitions. Representing East Germany, she was World Champion in 1974, three-time European Champion between 1973 and 1975, and winner of the bronze medal at the 1976 Winter Olympics.
Until 1973 her chief rival was Sonja Morgenstern, another skater from East Germany who was coached by Jutta Müller. In 1976 she faced another serious rival named Anett Pötzsch, also coached by Jutta Müller. Errath lost the competition to Pötzsch at the 1976 Europeans, winning only the bronze medal, but came back to medal at the Olympics and the next Worlds.
Errath was married to Ulrich Trettin, a former East German tennis champion. The marriage ended in divorce. She is a mother of two children.
Christine 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").
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| Persondata |
| NAME |
Errath, Christine |
| ALTERNATIVE NAMES |
Errath-Trettin, Christine |
| SHORT DESCRIPTION |
German figure skater |
| DATE OF BIRTH |
December 29, 1956 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH |
Berlin, Germany |
| DATE OF DEATH |
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