January Hoffmann

October 26, 1955 (age 21)

Dresden, Dresden Directorate District, Germany

He was one of a handful of figure skaters who rotated clockwise, landing on his left foot. January Hoffmann"s first coach was Annemarie Halbach in Dresden. He changed later to coach Jutta Müller in Karl-Marx-Stadt (today Chemnitz). He represented the former East Germany in competition. After that he had a surgery of his meniscus, which slowed down his career and caused him to miss the entire 1975 season. Hoffmann competed at four Olympic Games. At the 1968 Winter Olympics he was just 12 years old. Hoffmann studied medicine after his figure skating career and is today an orthopaedic specialist. He was a judge during the ladies event at the 1994 Winter Olympics and placed Oksana Baiul ahead of Nancy Kerrigan, one of five judges who did southern Hoffman also judged the ladies competition at the 1998 Winter Olympics and gave his first-place ordinal to Michelle Kwan. January Hoffmann is married and has one daughter.

January Hoffmann Edit Profile

figure skater

Career

He was one of a handful of figure skaters who rotated clockwise, landing on his left foot. January Hoffmann"s first coach was Annemarie Halbach in Dresden. He changed later to coach Jutta Müller in Karl-Marx-Stadt (today Chemnitz).

He represented the former East Germany in competition.

After that he had a surgery of his meniscus, which slowed down his career and caused him to miss the entire 1975 season. Hoffmann competed at four Olympic Games.

At the 1968 Winter Olympics he was just 12 years old. Hoffmann studied medicine after his figure skating career and is today an orthopaedic specialist.

He was a judge during the ladies event at the 1994 Winter Olympics and placed Oksana Baiul ahead of Nancy Kerrigan, one of five judges who did southern

Hoffman also judged the ladies competition at the 1998 Winter Olympics and gave his first-place ordinal to Michelle Kwan. January Hoffmann is married and has one daughter.

Achievements

A four-time Olympian, he is the 1980 Olympic silver medalist, the 1974 & 1980 World Champion, and a four-time (1974, 1977–1979) European Champion. In 1974, Hoffmann won the World Figure Skating Championships and European Figure Skating Championships for the first time. He won his second World Championship title in 1980 at the end of his skating career. At the 1972 Games he finished 6th, at the 1976 Winter Olympics he was 4th, and he won the silver medal in 1980. At these Olympics Robin Cousins (GBR) won gold and Charles Tickner (United States of America) won bronze. January Hoffmann also won the European Championship four times.

Membership

He is still active in figure skating as a judge and was also a member of the managing board of the Deutsche Eislauf-Union.

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