Franz Ningel

Franz Ningel
nation	Germany
birthday	October 18, 1936
place of birth	Frankfurt am Main
Career
discipline	Single / pair running
Partner	Marika Kilius, Margret Göbl
status	resigned
Medal table
World Cup medals 0 × 1 × 2 × EM medals 0 × 1 × 5 ×
World figure skating championships bronze Garmisch-Partenkirchen 1956 Couples silver Colorado Springs 1957 Couples bronze Prague 1962 Couples  European figure skating championships bronze Budapest 1955 Couples bronze Paris 1956 Couples bronze Vienna 1957 Couples bronze Garmisch-Partenkirchen 1960 Couples silver Berlin 1961 Couples bronze Geneva 1962 Couples

Franz Ningel (born October 18, 1936 in Frankfurt am Main , Hessen-Nassau ) is a former German roller skater and figure skater who started in pair skating . As a single runner in roller figure skating, he was world and European champion in 1956 and 1957.

Life

With his first figure skating partner Marika Kilius , Ningel was German champion in pair skating from 1955 to 1957 . During the same period, the couple took part in three European championships and always won bronze medals there, in Budapest , Paris and Vienna . Ningel and Kilius won two medals at world championships . In 1956 in Garmisch-Partenkirchen they won bronze and in 1957 in Colorado Springs they were runner-up behind the Canadians Barbara Wagner and Robert Paul . At the 1956 Olympic Games in Cortina d'Ampezzo , they just missed a medal in fourth. After the end of the 1957 season, the figure skating couple separated.

From 1959, Franz Ningel and his future wife Margret Göbl started . With her he was three times German champion in pair skating , in the years 1960 to 1962. At the European championship in 1960 in Garmisch-Partenkirchen , Göbl / Ningel won their first international medal with bronze. At the 1960 Olympic Games in Squaw Valley , they finished fifth. In 1961 in Berlin they were runner-up in Europe, losing just short of Marika Kilius and Hans-Jürgen Bäumler . In their last year as an amateur pair skater, Göbl / Ningel won bronze medals at both the European Championships in Geneva and the World Championships in Prague in 1962 .

They then switched to the professional camp and worked for the show Holiday on ice for 8 years . 1964 Göbl / Ningel became professional world champions.

In 1972, Franz Ningel, a state-certified ice skating instructor, founded the "Ningel Ice Skating School" in the Duisburg ice rink with his wife Margret. There he trained the runners of the roller-skating department of RESG Walsum and choreographed the traditional roller-skating show for years.

His daughter Jasmin Ningel (* 1971) was also a figure skater. His son Manuel Ningel (* 1979) was an ice hockey player, including ice hockey in Gelsenkirchen .

Ningel received the silver bay leaf on February 8, 1958 .

Results in pair skating

(until 1957 with Marika Kilius , from 1959 with Margret Göbl )

Competition / year	1954	1955	1956	1957	1958	1959	1960	1961	1962
winter Olympics			4th				5.
World championships		7th	3.	2.		5.	4th		3.
European championships		3.	3.	3.		4th	3.	2.	3.
German championships	2.	1.	1.	1.		2.	1.	1.	1.

Web links

• Franz Ningel in the database of Sports-Reference (English; archived from the original )

reference

• Eissport Magazin, November 9, 2006

Individual evidence

1. ↑ Sports report of the federal government of September 29, 1973 to the Bundestag - printed matter 7/1040 - page 72