Fritzi Burger
| Fritzi Burger | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Personal information | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Full name | Friederike "Fritzi" Burger | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Country represented |  Austria |
|||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Born | June 10, 1910 Vienna, Austria |
|||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Died | Script error: The function "death_date_and_age" does not exist. Vienna, Austria |
|||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
|
Medal record
|
||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Olympic medal record | ||
|---|---|---|
| Representing Austria |
||
| Figure skating | ||
 |
1928 St. Moritz | Ladies' singles |
|
1932 Lake Placid | Ladies' singles |
Friederike "Fritzi" Burger (6 June 1910, Vienna, Austria – 16 February 1999, Vienna, Austria) was an Austrian figure skater competitive in the late 1920s and early 1930s. She was Jewish.[1]
Career
She won the first-ever contested European Championships, held in 1930. Sonja Henie, who held a monopoly in women's figure skating at the time, was not present at this championship and Burger never defeated her in competition. She placed second behind Henie at the 1928 and 1932 Winter Olympics, and in the 1929 and 1932 World Championships.
After the 1932 Olympics, Burger ended her skating career and went to London, where in 1935 she married Shinkichi Nishikawa, a grandson of the Japanese pearl tycoon Kokichi Mikimoto.[2] She returned with her husband to Vienna, where she gave birth to her son in the summer of 1937, just before Austria's annexation by Nazi Germany.
In the 1990s, living in the United States, she was interviewed for several documentaries on the history of figure skating.
Results
| Event | 1927 | 1928 | 1929 | 1930 | 1931 | 1932 | 1933 | 1934 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Winter Olympic Games | 2nd | 2nd | ||||||
| World Championships | 3rd | 2nd | 3rd | 2nd | ||||
| European Championships | 1st | 2nd | 2nd | 3rd | ||||
| Austrian Championships | 3rd | 1st | 1st | 1st | 1st | 2nd | 3rd |
Quotes
- "I had two husbands. She even beat me at that. She had three." – Fritzi Burger speaking of Sonja Henie, in a 1994 interview.[3]
See also
References
- ↑ Lua error in package.lua at line 80: module 'strict' not found.
- ↑ Lua error in package.lua at line 80: module 'strict' not found.
- ↑ ESPN 1928 sports history, accessed July 20, 2006.
External links
- Picture of Fritzi Burger
- New York Times topics: In the Fading Light Of the Brilliant Henie
- Jews in sports – Burger, Fritzi
- Preface to "Searching for Fritzi"
- Reviews of "Searching for Fritzi," 1999
Book
- Lua error in package.lua at line 80: module 'strict' not found.
<templatestyles src="Asbox/styles.css"></templatestyles>
 |
This article about an Austrian figure skater is a stub. You can help Wikipedia by expanding it. |
- 1910 births
- 1999 deaths
- Sportspeople from Vienna
- Austrian female single skaters
- Austrian Jews
- Olympic silver medalists for Austria
- Olympic figure skaters of Austria
- Figure skaters at the 1928 Winter Olympics
- Figure skaters at the 1932 Winter Olympics
- Olympic medalists in figure skating
- World Figure Skating Championships medalists
- European Figure Skating Championships medalists
- Medalists at the 1928 Winter Olympics
- Medalists at the 1932 Winter Olympics
- Austrian figure skating biography stubs
