Hanna Eigel

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Hanna Eigel figure skating
nation AustriaAustria Austria
birthday May 20, 1938
place of birth Vienna
Career
discipline Single run
Medal table
World Cup medals 0 × gold 1 × silver 1 × bronze
EM medals 2 × gold 0 × silver 0 × bronze
ISU World figure skating championships
bronze Vienna 1955 Ladies
silver Colorado Springs 1957 Ladies
ISU European figure skating championships
gold Budapest 1955 Ladies
gold Vienna 1957 Ladies
 

Hanna Eigel (born May 20, 1938 in Vienna ) is a former Austrian figure skater who started in a single run . She is the European champion from 1955 and 1957 .

Career

After attending secondary school, Hanna Eigel switched to a private business school and then attended a private training institute for the tailoring trade. She began figure skating training at the age of seven in the winter of 1946/47. She took part in various youth competitions and became known to a first audience in the 1949/50 season as the winner of the newcomers' skating association of the Austrian Ice Skating Association and in 1950/51 as the winner of the Holofsky plaque . In the following years, Eigel and her teammates Hanna Walter and Ingrid Wendl were supported by the traditional Viennese ice skating club . This funded the rival runners' lessons, the ice ages and provided two pairs of custom-made ice skates per year. Eigel improved continuously and won an international junior run in the 1952/53 season. In 1953/54 the Viennese won the silver medal at the Austrian championships and took part for the first time in the European championships in Bolzano, Italy, and the world championship in Oslo , where she finished sixth and seventh respectively in the victories of German champion Gundi Busch .

The sporting breakthrough came in the 1954/55 season. At the European Championships in Budapest in 1955 , Eigel won the title on her second European Championship participation in front of the two Britons Yvonne Sugden and Erica Batchelor . At the World Championships in the same year she won the bronze medal as the best European runner behind the Americans Carol Heiss and Tenley Albright . These successes were honored in mid-January 1956 by the Austrian sports journalists with the honor of "Sportswoman of the year 1955" (she won with 326 points, clearly ahead of second-placed tobogganist Karla Kienzl 171). In the following season she did not take part in the EM 1956 because of an appendix operation and finished the World Championships in Garmisch-Partenkirchen and the Olympic Winter Games in 1956 in Cortina d'Ampezzo, Italy, in fifth place. It was not until 1957 that she was able to build on the previous successes. At the European Championships in her hometown she won the title for the second time in front of her compatriots Ingrid Wendl and Hanna Walter. In the same year, Eigel achieved her best placement at a World Cup at the World Championships in Colorado Springs, USA, and won silver behind local hero and Olympic champion Carol Heiss.

After finishing her amateur career, Eigel devoted herself to professional sport from 1958 and achieved an annual income of 40,000 to 50,000 marks through appearances in ice revues. She was signed up for the successful Wiener Eisrevue , where she performed together with the former European champions Ingrid Wendl and Eva Pawlik . Eigel also worked for the international competitor Holiday on Ice , together with her husband Hami Brown, a Scottish ice skating comedian.


Results

Competition / year 1954 1955 1956 1957
winter Olympics 5.
World championships 7th 3. 5. 2.
European championships 6th 1. 1.
Austrian championships 2. 2. 1.

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ a b cf. Hanna Walter . In: Internationales Sportarchiv 27/1955 from June 27, 1955
  2. ↑ Michael Smejkal: "I just wanted to dance the music" . In: Salzburger Nachrichten , April 13, 2002. S. IV
  3. ↑ Hanappi and Eigel - Sportsman of the Year . In: Arbeiter-Zeitung . Vienna January 18, 1956, p. 8 ( berufer-zeitung.at - the open online archive - digitized).
  4. ↑ You're swimming . In: Der Spiegel . No. 9 , 1960, pp. 52 ( online ).
  5. ↑ cf. The traditional history of the “Wiener Eisrevue” . In: Wiener Zeitung , January 23, 2004, KUL Kulturmagazin, p. E8
    Elias Natmessnig: Free admission: silent witnesses of a forgotten dream. In: Kurier , January 10, 2008, p. 15
  6. ↑ Don Stacey: Obituaries: Duncan Whaley . In: The Stage , August 10, 2000, p. 26
personal data
SURNAME Eigel, Hanna
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Austrian figure skater
DATE OF BIRTH May 20, 1938
PLACE OF BIRTH Vienna