Fritzi Schwingl

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Friederike "Fritzi" Schwingl (* July 28, 1921 ; † July 9, 2016 ) was an Austrian canoeist . She won the bronze medal at the 1948 Olympics .

At the Olympic Games in London in 1948 and Helsinki in 1952, only one competition was held for women, the one over 500 meters. At the London Games, the competitions were held on the Thames near Henley . In the first, Karen Hoff from Denmark won ahead of Alida van der Anker-Doedens , while Fritzi Schwingl from Austria came in third, a tenth of a second behind the Dutchwoman. Four days after the singles final, the world championship in non-Olympic two-person kayak was also held in Henley. It won Karen Hoff together with Bodil Svendsen before the Czechoslovak boat; Fritzi Schwingl and Gertrude Liebhart received bronze .

Two years later the Canoe World Championships took place in Copenhagen. In the single, the Finn Sylvi Saimo won ahead of Karen Hoff and Fritzi Schwingl. Sylvi Saimo and Greta Grönholm won in a two-person kayak , followed by Schwingl and Liebhart who received the silver medal. After Gertrude Liebhart started at the Olympic Games in 1952, Fritzi Schwingl did not compete again until the 1954 World Championships in Mâcon. Therese Zenz , who started for Saarland, won , Fritzi Schwingl received the silver medal. After being mostly in the shadow of the successful female skiers, Fritzi Schwingl was elected Sportswoman of the Year 1954 on February 23, 1955 with 146 voting points ; a year earlier, on January 21, 1954, with 134 voting points (behind Trude Klecker / 213 voting points) she was second in the election for Sportswoman of the Year 1953.

After Fritzi Schwingl and Gertrude Liebhart, it took 56 years until another Austrian canoeist received an Olympic medal. In 2008 Violetta Oblinger-Peters won bronze in the canoe slalom.

In 1996 Schwingl, who lived in Klosterneuburg , received the Golden Merit Medal from the Republic of Austria .

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  1. ^ "Hermann Buhl and Trude Klecker" . In: Arbeiter-Zeitung . Vienna January 22, 1954, p. 8 ( berufer-zeitung.at - the open online archive - digitized).
  2. ^ "The athletes of the year 1954 voted" . In: Arbeiter-Zeitung . Vienna February 24, 1955, p. 8 ( berufer-zeitung.at - the open online archive - digitized).
  3. ↑ diepresse.com from August 15, 2008 (accessed June 11, 2009)
  4. ↑ Olympic legend "Fritzi" Schwingl is dead ( memento of the original from July 19, 2016 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. on ORF from July 18, 2016 accessed on July 18, 2016  @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / noe.orf.at
personal data
SURNAME Schwingl, Fritzi
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Schwingl, Friederike
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Austrian canoeist
DATE OF BIRTH July 28, 1921
DATE OF DEATH July 9, 2016