Fritz Kachler
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Full name | Friedrich Kachler | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
nation | Austria | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
birthday | January 1888 | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
place of birth | Vienna | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
date of death | 1973 | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Place of death | Vienna | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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discipline | Single run | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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Friedrich "Fritz" Kachler (* January 1888 in Vienna ; † 1973 there ) was an Austrian figure skater who started in a single run . He was the world champion of 1912 , 1913 and 1923 and the European champion of 1914 and 1924 .
Life
He achieved his first podium placement at the World Figure Skating Championships in Berlin in 1911 , where he was third behind Ulrich Salchow and Werner Rittberger . A year later in Manchester he won his first world title, which he defended in Vienna in 1913 . In 1914, at the last world figure skating championship before the First World War, he was defeated by the Swede Gösta Sandahl and became vice world champion. In the same year, however, he won his first European championship title in front of a home crowd in Vienna.
After a seven-year hiatus because of the First World War , he came back in 1922 at the age of 34 and was runner-up in Stockholm behind Gillis Grafström . A year later he even became world champion again in Vienna , ahead of his compatriot Willy Böckl , whom he had relegated to second place in 1913. In 1924, Kachler won his last international title with the European championship title in Davos . He made his last appearance at the World Figure Skating Championships in Vienna in 1925 , where he became vice world champion. Willy Böckl, who had previously beaten him at the European Championship in 1922, now triumphed over him for the first time at a World Championship.
Kachler believed that sport and nationalism should not be mixed and therefore did not compete in the Olympics .
In addition to his athletic career as a figure skater and judge, he made a career as a mechanical engineer and became head of the Austrian Railway for Vienna / Lower Austria in the 1950s. He died in 1973 and was buried in the Eisenstadt family grave at the Döblinger Friedhof in Vienna, next to his wife Margarethe Eisenstädter.
Results
Competition / year | 1909 | 1910 | 1911 | 1912 | 1913 | 1914 | 1922 | 1923 | 1924 | 1925 |
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World championships | 3. | 1. | 1. | 2. | 2. | 1. | 2. | |||
European championships | 1. | 2. | 1. | |||||||
Austrian championships | 2. | 1. | 1. | 1. |
Awards (excerpt)
Individual evidence
- ↑ List of winners of the Medal of Honor for Services to the Republic of Austria . Retrieved December 9, 2015.
personal data | |
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SURNAME | Kachler, Fritz |
ALTERNATIVE NAMES | Kachler, Friedrich |
BRIEF DESCRIPTION | Austrian figure skater |
DATE OF BIRTH | January 1888 |
PLACE OF BIRTH | Vienna |
DATE OF DEATH | 1973 |
Place of death | Vienna |