Gustav Hill

Gustav Hill
Photo taken around 1899
Full name	Gustav Hill
nation	Empire of Austria
birthday	January 1, 1871
date of death	April 15, 1953
Career
discipline	Single run
Medal table
World Cup medals 3 × 2 × 0 × EM medals 1 × 4 × 0 ×
World figure skating championships silver Saint Petersburg 1896 Men's gold Stockholm 1897 Men's silver London 1898 Men's gold Davos 1899 Men's gold Davos 1900 Men's  European figure skating championships silver Vienna 1894 Men's silver Budapest 1895 Men's silver Davos 1899 Men's silver Berlin 1900 Men's gold Vienna 1901 Men's

Gustav Hügel ( January 1, 1871 , † April 15, 1953 ) was an Austrian figure skater who started in a single run . He is the world champion of 1897 , 1899 and 1900 and the European champion of 1901 .

He was the son of the journalist Eduard Hügel . He started for the Vienna Ice Skating Club. Together with Georg Zachariades he is considered to be the inventor of the “deep” pirouette. His first success was winning the German-Austrian association championship in Troppau in 1894 , which was held jointly for both countries by the German and Austrian ice skating associations .

The silver medal in the men's competition in Saint Petersburg in 1896 behind the German Gilbert Fuchs was the first of five world championship medals, followed by the gold medal in Stockholm in 1897 in front of the Swede Ulrich Salchow , again silver in London in 1898 , this time behind the Swede Henning Grenander , before twice in a row, in 1899 and 1900 , Salchow, who later dominated the ten-time world champion, was able to refer to second place.

At European Championships he was its major competitors Salchow only in 1901 beat 1899 and 1900 he was each inferior to Sweden in contrast to the World Championships after he already in 1894 his compatriot Eduard Engelmann and 1895 the Hungarian Tibor of Földváry succumbed.

At least until 1915 he appeared at shows. After the First World War he worked as a figure skating coach, first in Switzerland, from 1928 (and from 1935) at the Vienna Ice Skating Club. He also founded the Nordpol tennis facilities in Vienna-Hietzing .

Results

Competition / year	1892	1894	1895	1896	1897	1898	1899	1900	1901
World championships				2.	1.	2.	1.	1.
European championships	6th	2.	2.				2.	2.	1.
German championships		1.	2.

Web links

• Vienna Ice Skating Club