Felix Kaspar

Felix Kaspar
nation	Austria
birthday	January 14, 1915
place of birth	Vienna, Austria
date of death	December 5, 2003
Place of death	Bradenton, USA
Career
discipline	Single run
Medal table
Olympic medals 0 × 0 × 1 × World Cup medals 2 × 0 × 1 × EM medals 2 × 1 × 0 ×
winter Olympics bronze Garmisch-Partenkirchen 1936 Men's  World figure skating championships bronze Paris 1936 Men's gold Vienna 1937 Men's gold Berlin 1938 Men's  European figure skating championships silver St. Moritz 1935 Men's gold Prague 1937 Men's gold St. Moritz 1938 Men's

Felix Kaspar (born January 14, 1915 in Vienna ; † December 5, 2003 in Bradenton , Florida , USA ) was an Austrian figure skater who started in a single run . He is the world champion of 1937 and 1938 and the European champion of 1937 and 1938 .

Felix Kaspar started figure skating when he was 9 years old. He trained on the artificial ice rink from Eduard Engelmann junior. He was known for his high jumps. In 1935 he was vice European champion behind his compatriot Karl Schäfer . The following year he won the bronze medal at both the Olympic Games and the World Championships . In 1937 he was finally world and European champion and defended both titles a year later, always before the Briton Graham Sharp .

At the beginning of the Second World War , Kaspar was in Australia , where he met his future wife June. He was married to her for 54 years. The couple had a daughter named Christie. Kaspar spent the entire wartime in Australia. In 1965 he went with his family to Minneapolis , Minnesota in the United States and worked there as a trainer in the ice center in the Golden Valley in the Twin Cities (Minneapolis and St. Paul ). He trained there among others the Japanese Emi Watanabe . In 1977 he moved with his family to Pasadena , California , where he continued to work as a trainer.

In 1988 Felix Kaspar was inducted into the Figure Skating Hall of Fame. In 1989 he went to Florida as a pensioner with his wife; there he died of Alzheimer's at the age of 88 .

Results

Competition / year	1934	1935	1936	1937	1938
winter Olympics			3.
World championships			3.	1.	1.
European championships	7th	2.	4th	1.	1.
Austrian championships		1.		1.	1.

Web links

• Felix Kaspar in the database of Sports-Reference (English; archived from the original )

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