Gundi Busch
Gundi Busch 
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| Full name | Gundula Busch | ||||||||||||||||||
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| birthday | April 29, 1935 | ||||||||||||||||||
| place of birth | Milan, Italy | ||||||||||||||||||
| date of death | 31st January 2014 (age 78) | ||||||||||||||||||
| Place of death | Stockholm, Sweden | ||||||||||||||||||
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| discipline | Single run | ||||||||||||||||||
| society | Cologne EK | ||||||||||||||||||
| Trainer | Thea Frenssen | ||||||||||||||||||
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Gundula "Gundi" Busch (born April 29, 1935 in Milan , † January 31, 2014 in Stockholm ) was a German figure skater who started in a single run . She was the world champion and European champion from 1954 and thus the first German world champion and also European champion in women's figure skating.
Career
Gundi Busch was the daughter of a manufacturer. The family moved from Milan via Haarlem in the Netherlands to Garmisch-Partenkirchen . She started figure skating in Milan when she was four and a half years old. Later she took ballet lessons in Garmisch-Partenkirchen and also trained temporarily in London and at Cologne EK . Her trainer was Thea Frenssen .
The German champion from 1953 and 1954 took part in world and European championships from 1951 to 1954 . In 1953 she was runner-up in Dortmund behind the British Valda Osborn and runner-up in Davos behind the American Tenley Albright . A year later she became European champion in Bolzano and world champion in Oslo . Both title wins were the first for a German figure skater in a single run. She had finished her only Olympic Games in 1952 in Oslo in eighth place. On February 19, 1954, she received the Silver Laurel Leaf for her athletic achievements .
Immediately after her successes, Busch ended her amateur career in 1954 at the age of only 19 and went to the Hollywood Ice Revue . In 1956 she married the Swedish professional ice hockey player Gösta "Lill-Lulle" Johansson and moved with him to Sweden . Their son Peter Lulle was born there a year later. Gundi Busch worked, among other things, as a trainer.
Her life story was published in April 2009 under the title Mein eiskaltes Leben . In it, Gundi Busch describes how she was pushed to figure skating by her mother.
Results
| Competition / year | 1951 | 1952 | 1953 | 1954 |
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| winter Olympics | 8th. | |||
| World championships | 10. | 6th | 2. | 1. |
| European championships | 6th | 7th | 2. | 1. |
| German championships | 3. | 2. | 1. | 1. |
Publications
- Gundi Busch: My freezing cold life . Münster: Biographie-Verlag Damwerth, 2009. ISBN 978-3-937772-13-4
Web links
- Gundi Busch in the Sports-Reference database (English; archived from the original )
- Gundi Busch 1935 - 2014 cawa media February 1, 2014
- Former figure skating world champion Busch died sport.de February 4, 2014
Individual evidence
- ↑ Report of the Federal Government to the Bundestag of September 29, 1973 -Drucksache 7/1070 - Appendix 3 ff (including all awards of the Silver Laurel Leaf from 1973), pages 54 ff., Here page 57.
- ↑ Former world figure skating champion Busch has died . dpa article on Süddeutsche Zeitung , February 4, 2014, accessed on August 27, 2020 . .
| personal data | |
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| SURNAME | Busch, Gundi |
| ALTERNATIVE NAMES | Bush, Gundula |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | German figure skater |
| DATE OF BIRTH | April 29, 1935 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Milan |
| DATE OF DEATH | January 31, 2014 |
| Place of death | Stockholm |