Fritzi Burger

Fritzi Burger
Full name	Friederike Burger
nation	Austria
birthday	June 6, 1910
place of birth	Vienna
date of death	February 16, 1999
Place of death	Portland, Maine, USA
Career
discipline	Single run
Medal table
Olympic medals 0 × 2 × 0 × World Cup medals 0 × 2 × 2 × EM medals 1 × 2 × 1 ×
winter Olympics silver St. Moritz 1928 Ladies silver Lake Placid 1932 Ladies  World figure skating championships bronze London 1928 Ladies silver Budapest 1929 Ladies bronze Berlin 1931 Ladies silver Montréal 1932 Ladies  European figure skating championships gold Berlin 1930 Ladies silver Vienna 1931 Ladies silver Paris 1932 Ladies bronze London 1933 Ladies

Friederike "Fritzi" Burger (born June 6, 1910 in Vienna ; † February 16, 1999 in Portland , Maine ) was an Austrian figure skater who started in a single run .

Career

Fritzi Burger was Austrian champion in women's figure skating from 1928 to 1931, succeeding the great Herma Szabó , who had become Austrian champion six times in a row before her and who had also dominated the international competition as a five-time world champion in individual skating .

At the first European championship, in which there was a separate women's competition, Burger won the gold medal in Berlin in 1930 , making it the first female European champion in the history of figure skating . Long-time world champion Sonja Henie from Norway was absent from this tournament. Burger never managed to beat her in a competition. So she mostly stayed in second place. In 1931 and 1932 , Burger was vice European champion behind Henie and third in 1933 .

Burger also took part in world championships four times . In 1928 and 1931 she won bronze, in 1929 and 1932 she was vice world champion behind Henie. At the Olympic Games she met the same fate, both in 1928 in St. Moritz and in 1932 in Lake Placid , she won silver behind the Norwegian.

After her last Olympic Games, she retired in 1932 and went to London , where she married Shinkichi Nishikawa, a grandson of Japanese pearl magnate Kokichi Mikimoto . Their son was born in Tokyo in 1937. In the 1990s, living in the USA, she gave several interviews for reports on the history of figure skating.

Results

Competition / year	1927	1928	1929	1930	1931	1932	1933	1934
winter Olympics		2.				2.
World championships		3.	2.		3.	2.
European championships				1.	2.	2.	3.
Austrian championships	3.	1.	1.	1.	1.	2.		3.

Web links

• Fritzi Burger in the Sports-Reference database (English; archived from the original )

Individual evidence

1. ^ The Interesting Sheet , No. 28, July 15, 1937, p. 22 (with photo)