VENUE

Two 30x60m sized fully air-conditioned ice rinks, side by side, one with 1,600 spectator seats and the other with 600 spectator seats and a smaller rink with the ice surface of 20x45m, also fully air-conditioned, are the heart of the National Training Centre for Figure Skating in Oberstdorf. A dormitory school with 44 beds, a restaurant, fitness centre with a fully equipped centre for medical treatment and a sauna is available for skaters living in this centre for a longer or shorter period of time.

Many famous skaters from Germany and other countries, like Jane Torvill and Christopher Dean, Isabelle and Paul Duchesnay, Norbert Schramm, Scott Hamilton, Susanna Rahkamo and Petri Kokko or the bronze medallists of the ISU World Championships 2004 Kati Winkler and Renè Lohse used the excellent facilities of the training-centre . Five years ago also the Italian skater Carolina Kostner moved to Oberstdorf to use the training centre and train with Michael Huth.