Knut Schubert, Date of Birth, Place of Birth

    

Knut Schubert

figure skater

Date of Birth: 09-Sep-1958

Place of Birth: Bautzen, Saxony, Germany

Profession: figure skater, figure skating coach

Nationality: Germany

Zodiac Sign: Virgo


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About Knut Schubert

  • Knut Schubert (born 9 September 1958 in Bautzen, Germany) is a former East German pair skater.
  • With his sister, Katja Schubert, he won the bronze medal at the 1974 East German Figure Skating Championships.
  • They went on to finish ninth at that year's European Figure Skating Championships and eleventh at the World Figure Skating Championships. Schubert later teamed up with Birgit Lorenz.
  • They won the gold medal at the East German Championships in 1981 and 1985, and captured the silver medal in four additional years.
  • The couple won the bronze at the European Championships in 1983 and 1984 and finished fifth at the 1984 Winter Olympic Games.
  • They also finished a career-best sixth place at the 1984 World Championships. After his figure skating career he studied teaching special subject sport.
  • Knut Schubert became figure skating coach in Berlin.
  • He trained Peggy Schwarz and Alexander König, Peggy Schwarz and Mirko Müller, Mariana Kautz and Norman Jeschke, Mikkeline Kierkgaard and Norman Jeschke and also Sarah Jentgens and Mirko Müller.
  • In the early 1990s he also trained the ice dancers Kati Winkler and René Lohse.
  • After he moved to Dortmund Knut Schubert trained local pairs of Rebecca Handke and Daniel Wende (till 2007), Ekaterina Vassilieva and Daniel Wende (till 2008) as well as Mari-Doris Vartmann and Florian Just (till 2009). In 2010 he returned to Berlin and trains there Mari-Doris Vartmann and Aaron Van Cleave. Knut Schubert is married and has two children.
  • His daughter Pauline Schubert was also a figure skater.

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