Karin Iten

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Karin Iten figure skating
Karin Iten, to the right of the sports reporter Jan Hiermeyer ; Photo from 1973
nation SwitzerlandSwitzerland Switzerland
birthday August 11, 1956
date of death May 18, 2010
Place of death Winterthur, Switzerland
Career
discipline Single run
society Winterthur
ice skating club
Trainer Jacques Gerschwiler
Medal table
EM medals 0 × gold 0 × silver 1 × bronze
ISU European figure skating championships
bronze Cologne 1973 Ladies
last change: January 6, 2020

Karin Iten (born August 11, 1956 , † May 18, 2010 in Winterthur ) was a Swiss figure skater who started in a single run .

Career

Karin Iten took part in all world and European championships from 1972 to 1975 . From 1973 to 1975 she was Swiss champion in women's figure skating three times in a row.

Her best result at world championships was fifth in 1974 . At European championships, her greatest success was winning the bronze medal in 1973 in Cologne . It was the first medal for a Swiss woman in the women's competition at a European figure skating championship.

She was trained by Jacques Gerschwiler . Your home club was the Winterthur ice skating club . Karin Iten was the inventor of the Biellmann pirouette , which, much to her displeasure, was named after Denise Biellmann .

Iten had been suffering from diabetes since she was 14 , which was the reason she left competitive sports in 1975. After that she worked as a trainer for six years , but had to give up because of the illness. Despite the pancreas and kidney transplant, Karin Iten died on May 18, 2010 of complications from diabetes.

Awards

Results

Competition / year 1972 1973 1974 1975
World championships 12. 6th 5. 21st
European championships 15th 3. 5. 10.
Swiss championships 1. 1. 1.

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Obituary, Tages-Anzeiger , May 22, 2010.
  2. ↑ Ice Princess Karin Iten is dead , Tages-Anzeiger, May 20, 2010.
  3. ↑ http://www.srf.ch/player/tv/sportaktuell/video/credit-suisse-sports-awards-serie-teil-2?id=9a90f583-ec43-49b8-89ec-94197064e682  ( page no longer available , Search in web archives )  Info: The link was automatically marked as defective. Please check the link according to the instructions and then remove this notice.@1@ 2Template: Dead Link / www.srf.ch  
  4. ↑ Karin Iten in the Munzinger archive ( beginning of article freely accessible)
personal data
SURNAME Iten, Karin
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Swiss figure skater
DATE OF BIRTH August 11, 1956
DATE OF DEATH May 18, 2010
Place of death Winterthur