Lily Kronberger

Lily Kronberger
nation	Hungary
birthday	November 12, 1890
place of birth	Budapest
date of death	May 21, 1974
Place of death	Budapest
Career
discipline	Single run
Medal table
World Cup medals 4 × 0 × 2 ×
World figure skating championships bronze Davos 1906 Ladies bronze Vienna 1907 Ladies gold Troppau 1908 Ladies gold Budapest 1909 Ladies gold Berlin 1910 Ladies gold Vienna 1911 Ladies

Lily Kronberger (born November 12, 1890 in Budapest , Austria-Hungary ; † May 21, 1974 there ) was a Hungarian figure skater who started in a single run . She is the world champion from 1908 to 1911 . She won the first world title in sport for Hungary.

In the years 1908 to 1910 Kronberger was Hungarian champion, but in the men's competition, as there was no women's competition at that time.

In her first two world championships in 1906 and 1907 , the first in which there was ever a women's competition, she reached third place behind the British Madge Syers and the Austrian Jenny Herz . In Opava she elected to in 1908 for the first time to the world champion and was the title until her retirement from biathlon (for marriage) in 1911 to defend every year. In 1908 and 1910 it won ahead of Elsa Rendschmidt from the German Empire . When she last won the title in Vienna in 1911 , she made a premiere by becoming the first figure skater ever to add music to her freestyle , which Zoltán Kodály had recommended to her.

In 1983, Kronberger, who was Jewish, was inducted into the Hall of Fame of Jewish Sports and finally into the Figure Skating Hall of Fame in 1997 .

Results

Competition / year	1906	1907	1908	1909	1910	1911
World Championship	3.	3.	1.	1.	1.	1.
Hungarian championships			1.*	1.*	1.*

* In the men's competition, as there was no women's competition yet

Web links

• Jewish Sport Hall of Fame
• Jacov Sobovitz: Lily Kronberger , at Jewish Women's Archive