Gaby Seyfert 1968 Europeans (commentator: Eva Pawlik)

At the 1968 Europeans Seyfert was able to present a triple loop. Nevertheless, she only won the silver medal, because she was far behind after the school figures. This is the translation of Eva Pawlik´s commentary (The 1949 European Champion and 1948 Olympic Silver Medalist Eva Pawlik was the first female sportscaster in the German speaking countries and probably the first internationally successful skater to be a European figure skating TV commentator):
"Good evening, ladies and gentlemen, I say hello again from Västerås where the ladies´ free program at the European figure skating Championships takes place today. You are about to see the titleholder Gabriele Seyfert from East Germany. After the compulsory figures she is only in the third position. --- Double lutz and double toe-loop. - Double Axel. - Oppacher jump and double toe-loop. -- Double flip. -- Gaby Seyfert has been skating since she was 4yo. She is coached by her mother in Chemnitz. From the year 1960 on she has been the East German Champion running. Triple loop (in German: Rittberger). Double lutz. Double loop (Rittberger). Double toe-loop. - - A wonderful program shown by the East German skater with only very few moments in which she was not perfect. She is an impressive skater, her jumps are high and a triple jump is highly remarkable in a program of a lady. However, she is 43 points behind the Czech skater Hana Maskova, so she has to get 4 or 5 tenths more per jugde to defeat the last year´s European runner-up Champion Maskova (and to win the title). You can see her with her mother and coach. The technical marks: 5.8, 5.8, 5.9, 5.9, 5.8, 5.8, 5.7, 5.9, 5.8. The marks for the artistic impression: 5.8, 5.8, 5.8, 5.8, 5.8, 5.8, 5.7, 5.8, 5.9 - a truly unitary judgement."

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[bemar1972]

First TRIPLE LOOP in ladies event. (landed forward, but... :) 3:06

[koolaidnhemlock]

wow thanks for sharing!

[SexyLiLLeilaniMya]

@floskate That was three quarters of turn cheated Janet did Triple Toe loops in practice she tried it only once in competition her coach Slavka Button was my coach for almost 8 years

[skatesindreams]

What an amazing clip. Seyfert really had tp do something special here, and did so,

Thanks, as always, for sharing this with us.

[floskate]

Thank you so much for uploading this little bit of history. I've always heard about her triple loop but never had that chance to see it until now. Obviously underrotated but no worse than many of the men from the era. Janet Lynn was trying triple toes and salchows around this time, but other than that most women were still struggling with double axel! Really great to see such an early triple jump attempt by a woman. Thank you so much for sharing and please post more if you have them :)