figure skating
Former star figure skating coach Jutta Müller dies
Jutta Müller was one of the most dazzling and successful trainers in GDR sports: Jutta Müller. photo
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The long-time figure skating coach Jutta Müller is dead. She died at the age of 94 in a Berlin nursing home, as her daughter Gaby Seyfert confirmed to the German Press Agency. The MDR first reported on it.
The long-standing one Figure skating coach Jutta Müller is dead. She died at the age of 94 in a Berlin nursing home, as her daughter Gaby Seyfert confirmed to the German Press Agency. The MDR first reported on it.
Müller was considered one of the most successful ice skating coaches in the world. From the mid-1960s onwards, the woman from Chemnitz won almost 60 gold, silver and bronze medals in international competitions over three decades. Müller celebrated Olympic victories with Anett Pötzsch (1980) and Katarina Witt (1984/1988). With her daughter, Müller won Olympic silver and two world championship titles. “With her, the figure skating world is losing one of the greatest coaching personalities,” said Andreas Wagner, President of the German Ice Skating Union.