Life and Work
The pair trained in Karl-Marx-Stadt (Chemnitz) and skated for the club SC Karl-Marx-Stadt; their coach was Irene Salzmann. They were the only East Germans to win the title of World Champion in pair figure skating.
Tassilo Thierbach teamed up with 5 skating partners altogether: Romy Kermer (silver medallist at the Olympic Games with Rolf Österreich in 1976); Antje Heck; Petra Ronge; Sylvia Walter; and finally Sabine Baeß. In 1980 he suffered a meniscus injury to his knee, for which surgery was necessary. For this reason Baeß and Thierbach had to miss the Nationals and the Europeans in 1981.
Tassilo Thierbach was self-employed today and runs the company Automaten Großaufstellung Tassilo Thierbach GmbH in Chemnitz. He currently works as figure skating coach in the team of Ingo Steuer in Chemnitz.
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