Kathrin Beck (born 8 March 1966, in

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) is an Austrian actress and former

ice dancer Ice dance (sometimes referred to as ice dancing) is a discipline of figure skating that historically draws from ballroom dancing. It joined the World Figure Skating Championships in 1952, and became a Winter Olympic Games medal sport in 1976. Ac ...

. Competing with her brother,

Christoff Beck Christoff Beck (born 23 January 1964 in Vienna) is an Austrian former competitive ice dancer. Competing with his sister, Kathrin Beck, he became the 1987 Winter Universiade champion, a two-time Skate Canada International medalist (silver in 1987, ...

, she became the 1987

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champion, a two-time

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medalist (silver in 1987, bronze in 1985), and a six-time Austrian national champion (1983–1988). They finished fifth at the

1988 Winter Olympics The 1988 Winter Olympics, officially known as the XV Olympic Winter Games (french: XVes Jeux olympiques d'hiver) and commonly known as Calgary 1988 ( bla, Mohkínsstsisi 1988; sto, Wîchîspa Oyade 1988 or ; cr, Otôskwanihk 1998/; srs, Guts� ...

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, Canada. They trained six days a week, fifty weeks a year. After retiring from skating, Beck became an actress. She is a member of the Akademie des Österreichischen Films and Verband der Österreichischen FilmschauspielerInnen. She married Christian Klikovits.

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(ice dance with Beck)

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