Baeß and Thierbach were coached by Irene Salzmann in
Karl-Marx-Stadt (today Chemnitz) and represented the club SC Karl-Marx-Stadt. They were the only figure skating pair representing East Germany to win the World or European championships. All together, Thierbach skated with five partners:
Romy Kermer (silver medallist at the
Olympic Games with
Rolf Österreich in 1976); Antje Heck; Petra Ronge; Sylvia Walter; and finally Sabine Baeß. Baeß and Thierbach won their first European Championship, a bronze, in 1977 and their first World Championship medal, a bronze, in
1979. A mistake in the short program took them out of any chance of a medal at the
1980 Winter Olympics in Lake Placid however, and they came in fifth overall. Thierbach ran the company
Automaten Großaufstellung Tassilo Thierbach GmbH in Chemnitz. He also worked as figure skating coach in collaboration with
Ingo Steuer in Chemnitz. Thierbach died in Chemnitz on 19 April 2025, at the age of 68. ==Results==