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Place of Birth: Dortmund, Free State of Prussia, Germany
About Paul Falk
- Paul Falk (21 December 1921 – 20 May 2017) was a German pair skater.
- Born in Dortmund, Germany, he skated with Ria Baran and became two-time World champion and 1952 Olympic champion.
- Baran and Falk married during their active international figure skating.The pair skated for the club Düsseldorfer EG and had no coach.
- Until 1951 Baran and Falk were not able to participate in international competitions because Germany was excluded from international sport after World War II.
- They were the first couple which performed side by side double jumps and they also invented the Lasso-Lift.
- Baran and Falk were never defeated in amateur competition. In 1951 Falk was voted the male athlete of the year in Germany.
- After winning the Olympics in 1952 they turned professional and worked for Holiday on Ice.
- Falk's profession outside athletics was as a precision mechanic.
- In 1993 pair were inducted into the World Figure Skating Hall of Fame.
- He died 8 and a half months before Aliona Savchenko and Bruno Massot won the gold medal for pairs skating at the 2018 Winter Olympics.
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