Background
Her coach was her mother Jutta Müller, who also coached 1984 and 1988 Olympic champion Katarina Witt.
Her coach was her mother Jutta Müller, who also coached 1984 and 1988 Olympic champion Katarina Witt.
Seyfert skated for the club South Carolina Karl-Marx-Stadt and represented the German Democratic Republic (East Germany). In 1966, after two silver medals at the Europeans and the Worlds, she was voted as “The German Democratic Republic female athlete of the year." She became the first woman to land a clean triple loop. Seyfert ended her figure skating career in 1970.
Unlike Peggy Fleming, she was not allowed to skate professionally.
Offers by Holiday on Ice were refused by East German authorities. Seyfert turned to coaching, and worked with the Anett Pötzsch in the early 1970s.
The East German coach hierarchy later transferred Pötzsch to Jutta Müller"s group, and Seyfert ended her coaching career.