Residence Mannheim, Germany Home town Katowice Former partner Janina Poremska | Height 1.75 m Name Piotr Sczypa Country represented Poland | |
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Alternative names Piotr Sczypa/Szczypa (skating career)
Peter Sczypa (coaching career) Born 19 April 1948 (age 76) ( 1948-04-19 ) Siemianowice Slaskie, Poland Skating club MKS Iskra Katowice and MERC | ||
Piotr Sczypa, now known as Peter Sczypa (born 19 April 1948) is a former pair skater who competed for Poland with Janina Poremska and Teresa Skrzek. He is currently the national ladies' figure skating coach of Germany.
Life and career
Sczypa was born on 19 April 1948 in Siemianowice Śląskie.
As a pair skater, Sczypa won ten Polish national titles and competed at ten European and five World Championships as well as at the Olympic Winter Games in Grenoble in 1968. Besides his figure skating career he studied international economics and sports. In 1979 he moved to Denmark where he lived for seven years before moving to Germany in 1986.
Peter Sczypa coached Claudia Leistner when she took the gold medal at the 1989 European Championships and silver at the 1989 Worlds. Since the 1990s, he is one of Germany's most successful ladies' figure skating coaches. Based in Mannheim, Sczypa coached four-time German champion Sarah Hecken at the 2010 Olympic Winter Games in Vancouver. He is also the coach of Nathalie Weinzierl who placed 9th at the 2013 European Championships.