Ria Baran
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Born | (1922-11-02)2 November 1922 Dortmund, North Rhine-Westphalia, Germany | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Died | 12 November 1986(1986-11-12) (aged 64) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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Country | West Germany | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Retired | 1952 | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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Ria Baran (German pronunciation: [ˈʁiːa baˈʁaːn] ⓘ; 2 November 1922 in Dortmund, Germany – 12 November 1986) was a German pair skater. She skated together with Paul Falk and twice became World champion and in 1952 Olympic champion. She was one of the oldest female figure skating Olympic champions.
Ria Baran married Paul Falk during her active international figure skating. Therefore she is sometime listed as Ria Baran-Falk or Ria Falk.
The pair skated for the club Düsseldorfer EG and had no coach. Until 1951 Ria Baran and Paul Falk were not able to participate in international competitions because Germany was excluded from the international sport after World War II. They were the first couple which performed side by side double jumps and they also invented the Lasso-Lift.
Baran and Falk were never defeated in amateur competition.
Between 1950 and 1952 Ria Baran was voted 3 times running as the female athlete of the year in Germany.
After winning the Olympics in 1952 they turned pro and worked for Holiday on Ice.
Baran later worked as a secretary.
Results
(pairs with Paul Falk)
Event | 1947 | 1948 | 1949 | 1950 | 1951 | 1952 |
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Winter Olympic Games | 1st | |||||
World Championships | 1st | 1st | ||||
European Championships | 1st | 1st | ||||
German Championships | 1st | 1st | 1st | 1st | 1st | 1st |
References
- "Ria Falk". SR/Olympic Sports. Archived from the original on 17 April 2020. Retrieved 9 July 2014.
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Preceded by Lena Stumpf | German Sportswoman of the Year 1950 – 1952 | Succeeded by |
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- 1908: Anna Hübler / Heinrich Burger (GER)
- 1920: Ludowika Jakobsson / Walter Jakobsson (FIN)
- 1924: Helene Engelmann / Alfred Berger (AUT)
- 1928: Andrée Joly / Pierre Brunet (FRA)
- 1932: Andrée Brunet / Pierre Brunet (FRA)
- 1936: Maxi Herber / Ernst Baier (GER)
- 1948: Micheline Lannoy / Pierre Baugniet (BEL)
- 1952: Ria Baran / Paul Falk (GER)
- 1956: Sissy Schwarz / Kurt Oppelt (AUT)
- 1960: Barbara Wagner / Robert Paul (CAN)
- 1964: Ludmila Belousova / Oleg Protopopov (URS)
- 1968: Ludmila Belousova / Oleg Protopopov (URS)
- 1972: Irina Rodnina / Alexei Ulanov (URS)
- 1976: Irina Rodnina / Alexander Zaitsev (URS)
- 1980: Irina Rodnina / Alexander Zaitsev (URS)
- 1984: Elena Valova / Oleg Vasiliev (URS)
- 1988: Ekaterina Gordeeva / Sergei Grinkov (URS)
- 1992: Natalia Mishkutionok / Artur Dmitriev (EUN)
- 1994: Ekaterina Gordeeva / Sergei Grinkov (RUS)
- 1998: Oksana Kazakova / Artur Dmitriev (RUS)
- 2002: Elena Berezhnaya / Anton Sikharulidze (RUS)
2002: Jamie Salé / David Pelletier (CAN) - 2006: Tatiana Totmianina / Maxim Marinin (RUS)
- 2010: Shen Xue / Zhao Hongbo (CHN)
- 2014: Tatiana Volosozhar / Maxim Trankov (RUS)
- 2018: Aljona Savchenko / Bruno Massot (GER)
- 2022: Sui Wenjing / Han Cong (CHN)
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