Uwe Bewersdorf (born 4 November 1958 in

Freital Freital is a town in the district of Sächsische Schweiz-Osterzgebirge in Saxony, Germany. The town is situated on a small river, the Weißeritz, and is southwest of Dresden. Geography Freital is located southwest of Dresden in the Döhlen Ba ...

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) is a German former

pair skater Pair skating is a figure skating discipline defined by the International Skating Union (ISU) as "the skating of two persons in unison who perform their movements in such harmony with each other as to give the impression of genuine Pair Skating a ...

. Uwe Bewersdorf was a pair with

Manuela Mager Manuela Mager (later Holzapfel; born 11 July 1962 in Dresden, Bezirk Dresden, German Democratic Republic) is a German former pair skater. Mager was a team with Uwe Bewersdorf in pair skating. She skated for the club SC Einheit Dresden and was ...

. He started to skate with the age of 7 at the club Betriebs-Sportbund-Gemeinschaft Post Dresden. Later the club was renamed into SC Einheit

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. He was representing East Germany (

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). His coach was

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. The pair Mager/Bewersdorf was the first in the world to execute in competition a clean thrown loop. Because Manuela Mager finished her figure skating career in 1980 he had to change his skating partner. He teamed up with Marina Schulz. However the pair could not qualify for international competitions due to many injuries. Uwe Bewersdorf studied sport at the DHfK in

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. He works as a tax accountant in

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. Uwe Bewersdorf's name is sometimes spelled with double “F“ in the end. This happened due to a mistake of German Bureaucracy. His parents are spelled with a single “F”.

Results

pairs (with Mager)

References

External links

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Uwe Bewersdorf – 1980 Olympic results
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{{DEFAULTSORT:Bewersdorf, Uwe 1958 births Living people People from Freital People from Bezirk Dresden German male pair skaters Sportspeople from Saxony Olympic figure skaters of East Germany Figure skaters at the 1980 Winter Olympics Olympic bronze medalists for East Germany Olympic medalists in figure skating World Figure Skating Championships medalists European Figure Skating Championships medalists Medalists at the 1980 Winter Olympics