Maxi Herber
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 Maxi Herber |
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| Gold | 1936 Garmisch-Partenkirchen | Pairs | |
Maxi Herber (October 8, 1920 - October 20, 2006) was a German figure skater who became Olympic pair champion with Ernst Baier at the 1936 Winter Olympics. The duo revolutionized pair skating, becoming the first team to perform jumps side by side.
Born in Munich, Herber was also an accomplished single skater, winning the German nationals three times, from 1933 to 1935. She skated for the Münchner EV (Munich EV) club.
Herber and Baier married after their skating career ended in 1940. They had 3 children. After World War II they skated in ice shows. Later the couple owned a business. In 1964 they were divorced. As a result of the divorce, she had to depend on social services to survive. Supported by the “Deutsche Sporthilfe” (German Sport help organisation) she moved to Oberau near Garmisch-Partenkirchen in Bavaria. Some years later Herber and Baier remarried, but were divorced again.
Herber suffered from Parkinson's disease. In 2000 she moved to the Lenzheim retirement home in Garmisch-Partenkirchen. Soon afterwards she had an exhibition of her watercolor paintings there. She died at age 86 in Garmisch-Partenkirchen; Herber had been Germany's oldest living female Olympic champion.
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[edit] Results in pair skating
(with Ernst Baier)
| Event | 1934 | 1935 | 1936 | 1937 | 1938 | 1939 |
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| Olympic Games | 1st | |||||
| Worlds | 3rd | * | 1st | 1st | 1st | 1st |
| Europeans | 1st | 1st | 1st | 1st | 1st | |
| German Nationals | 1st | 1st | 1st | * | 1st | 1st |
*Did not participate
[edit] Results in singles skating
Herber never competed in the Olympic Winter Games as a single skater.
| Event | 1933 | 1934 | 1935 | 1936 | 1937 | 1938 |
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| Worlds | 7th | |||||
| Europeans | 4th | 7th | 4th | |||
| German Nationals | 1st | 1st | 1st |
[edit] See also
- List of Olympic medalists in figure skating
- World Figure Skating Championships
- European Figure Skating Championships
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1908: Anna Hübler & Heinrich Burger | 1920: Ludowika Jakobsson & Walter Jakobsson | 1924: Helene Engelmann & Alfred Berger | 1928: Andrée Joly & Pierre Brunet | 1932: Andrée Brunet & Pierre Brunet | 1936: Maxi Herber & Ernst Baier | 1948: Micheline Lannoy & Pierre Baugniet | 1952: Ria Baran & Paul Falk | 1956: Elisabeth Schwartz & Kurt Oppelt | 1960: Barbara Wagner & Robert Paul | 1964: Ludmila Belousova & Oleg Protopopov | 1968: Ludmila Belousova & Oleg Protopopov | 1972: Irina Rodnina & Alexei Ulanov | 1976: Irina Rodnina & Alexander Zaitsev | 1980: Irina Rodnina & Alexander Zaitsev | 1984: Elena Valova & Oleg Vasiliev | 1988: Ekaterina Gordeeva & Sergei Grinkov | 1992: Natalia Mishkutenok & Artur Dmitriev | 1994: Ekaterina Gordeeva & Sergei Grinkov | 1998: Oksana Kazakova & Artur Dmitriev | 2002: Yelena Berezhnaya & Anton Sikharulidze and Jamie Salé & David Pelletier | 2006: Tatiana Totmianina & Maxim Marinin |
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| NAME | Herber, Maxi |
| ALTERNATIVE NAMES | Baier, Maxi |
| SHORT DESCRIPTION | German pair skater |
| DATE OF BIRTH | October 8, 1920 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Munich, Bavaria, Germany |
| DATE OF DEATH | October 20, 2006 |
| PLACE OF DEATH | Garmisch-Partenkirchen, Bavaria, Germany |
