Manuela Manja Groß (later Leupold, born 29 January 1957 in East Berlin, East Germany) is a German former competitive pair skater. With partner Uwe Kagelmann, she is a two-time Olympic bronze medalist, and she is the youngest female figure skating Olympic medalist. She turned 15 just four days before the opening of the 1972 Winter Olympics, held in Sapporo, Japan, where she won her first bronze medal in pairs skating. Groß began figure skating in Berlin. She was paired with Uwe Kagelmann. They skated for the SC Dynamo Berlin club representing East Germany. Their coach was Heinz-Friedrich Lindner. Groß became a figure skating coach at the SC Berlin club and coaches many recreational figure skaters. Results pairs with Kagelmann See also World Figure Skating Championships External links https://web.archive.org/web/20060502042510/http://www.eklscberlin.arcgraph.de/ 1957 births Living people People from East Berlin Figure skaters from Berlin German female pair skaters Figure skaters at the 1972 Winter Olympics Figure skaters at the 1976 Winter Olympics Olympic figure skaters of East Germany Olympic bronze medalists for East Germany Olympic medalists in figure skating World Figure Skating Championships medalists European Figure Skating Championships medalists Medalists at the 1976 Winter Olympics Medalists at the 1972 Winter Olympics Recipients of the Patriotic Order of Merit in bronze 20th-century German women