- Fritzi Burger
__NOTOC__Friederike "Fritzi" Burger (
June 6 ,1910 ,Vienna, Austria -February 16 ,1999 ,Vienna, Austria ) was anAustria n figure skater competitive in the late 1920s and early 1930s.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 and1932 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 tycoonKokichi Mikimoto [ [http://www.time.com/time/magazine/article/0,9171,848150,00.html TIME ] ] . She returned with her husband to Vienna where she gave birth to her son in the spring of 1938, 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.
Competitive highlights
Quotes
*"I had two husbands. She even beat me at that. She had three." -- Fritzi Burger speaking of Sonja Henie, in a 1994 interview. [http://sports.espn.go.com/oly/winter02/gen/feature?page=history1928 ESPN 1928 sports history] , accessed July 20, 2006.]
References
External links
* [http://film.virtual-history.com/cigcard.php?id=7095 Picture of Fritzi Burger]
* [http://topics.nytimes.com/top/reference/timestopics/people/l/jere_longman/index.html?offset=50&s=oldest&inline=nyt-per New York Times topics: In the Fading Light Of the Brilliant Henie]
* [http://www.jewsinsports.org/Olympics.asp?sport=olympics&ID=214 Jews in sports - Burger, Fritzi]
* [http://www.carolbergman.net/work2.htm Preface to "Searching for Fritzi"]
* [http://www.amazon.com/Searching-Fritzi-Carol-Bergman/dp/0967313406 Reviews of "Searching for Fritzi," 1999]Book
* cite book
title= Searching for Fritzi
author= Carol Bergman
year= 1999
publisher= Mediacs
id= ISBN 0-9673134-0-6
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NAME=Burger, Fritzi
ALTERNATIVE NAMES=Burger, Friederike
SHORT DESCRIPTION=Austrian figure skater
DATE OF BIRTH=June 6 ,1910
PLACE OF BIRTH=Vienna
DATE OF DEATH=February 16 ,1999
PLACE OF DEATH=Portland, Maine ?
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