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Name
  
Fritzi Burger

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Full name
  
Friederike "Fritzi" Burger

Born
  
June 10, 1910 (
1910-06-10
)
Vienna, Austria

Died
  
February 16, 1999, Vienna, Austria

Olympic medals
  
Figure skating at the 1928 Winter Olympics - Women's Singles

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Friederike "Fritzi" Burger (6 June 1910 – 16 February 1999) was an Austrian figure skater. She was a two-time Olympic silver medalist (1928, 1932), a four-time World medalist (silver in 1929 and 1932, bronze in 1928 and 1931), the 1930 European champion, and a four-time Austrian national champion (1928–1931).

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Life and career

Burger was born on 6 June 1910 in Vienna. She was Jewish.

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. She returned with her husband to Vienna, where she gave birth to her son in the summer of 1937, just before the Anschluss (annexation of Austria by Nazi Germany).

In the 1990s, living in the United States, Burger was interviewed for several documentaries on the history of figure skating. She joked in a 1994 interview, "I had two husbands. [Sonja Henie] even beat me at that. She had three." She died on 16 February 1999 in Portland, Maine.

Book

  • Carol Bergman (1999). Searching for Fritzi. Mediacs. ISBN 0-9673134-0-6. 
  • References

    Fritzi Burger Wikipedia


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