Jan Hoffmann
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Full name | Jan Hoffmann | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Born | Dresden, East Germany | 26 October 1955||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Height | 1.78 m (5 ft 10 in) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Figure skating career | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Country | East Germany | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Skating club | SC Einheit Dresden | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Medal record
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Jan Hoffmann (born 26 October 1955) is a German
Personal life
Jan Hoffmann was born on 26 October 1955 in Dresden, East Germany.[1] He is married and has one daughter.
Career
Competitive
Hoffmann's first coach was Annemarie Halbach in
At the age of 12, Hoffmann competed at the 1968 Winter Olympics in Grenoble and placed 26th. He finished sixth at the 1972 Winter Olympics in Sapporo, having ranked fourth in figures and tenth in the free skate.
Hoffmann's first gold medal at an ISU Championship came at the 1974 European Championships in Zagreb, where he defeated Sergey Volkov of the Soviet Union and John Curry of the United Kingdom. At the 1974 World Championships in Munich, he placed first in figures, second in the short program, and fifth in the free skate. Technically gifted, he landed a triple Lutz in the free skate, the most difficult triple jump done at the time.[2] Finishing ahead of Volkov and Canada's Toller Cranston, he stood atop the world podium for the first time. Later that year, he injured his knee on the trampoline.[3] He had surgery on his meniscus and subsequently missed the entire 1974–75 season.
Hoffmann finished fourth at the 1976 Winter Olympics in Innsbruck after placing fourth in figures, ninth in the short program, and fifth in the free skate.
At the 1979 European Championships in Zagreb, Hoffmann finished ahead of the Soviet Union's Vladimir Kovalyov and the United Kingdom's Robin Cousins to win his fourth continental title. He took bronze behind the same skaters at the 1979 World Championships in Vienna.
In January 1980, Hoffmann placed second to Cousins at the
Post-competitive
Hoffmann studied medicine and became an
Results
International | |||||||||||||
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Event | 67–68 | 68–69 | 69–70 | 70–71 | 71–72 | 72–73 | 73–74 | 74–75 | 75–76 | 76–77 | 77–78 | 78–79 | 79–80 |
Olympics | 26th | 6th | 4th | 2nd | |||||||||
Worlds | 10th | 4th | 6th | 3rd | 1st | 3rd | 2nd | 2nd | 3rd | 1st | |||
Europeans | 21st | 16th | 9th | 4th | 3rd | 1st | 3rd | 1st | 1st | 1st | 2nd | ||
Skate America | 3rd | ||||||||||||
Moscow News | 4th | ||||||||||||
National | |||||||||||||
East German | 2nd | 2nd | 1st | 1st | 1st | 1st | 1st | 1st | 1st | 1st | 1st |
References
- ^ "Jan Hoffmann". Sports Reference. Archived from the original on 25 October 2009.
- ^ "Hoffmann Wins World Skate Title". The New York Times Archives. 8 March 1974. Retrieved 14 June 2019.
- ^ "World skaters in final practices". Colorado Springs Gazette-Telegraph. 3 March 1975. p. 9.
- ^ floskate (30 September 2011), Jan Hoffmann - 1980 Olympics LP, archived from the original on 13 December 2021, retrieved 7 June 2019
- ISBN 1-57566-466-6.