Liselotte Landbeck

Liselotte Landbeck
nation	Austria Belgium
birthday	January 13, 1916
place of birth	Vienna, Austria
date of death	February 15, 2013
Place of death	Quintal, Haute-Savoie, France
Career
discipline	Speed ​​skating (all-around) Figure skating (individual skating)
Medal table
World Championship medals (speed skating) 1 × 0 × 0 × World Championship medals (figure skating) 0 × 0 × 1 × EM medals (figure skating) 0 × 2 × 0 ×
All around world championships gold Oslo 1933 All-around  World figure skating championships bronze Oslo 1934 Ladies  European figure skating championships silver Prague 1934 Ladies silver St. Moritz 1935 Ladies

Liselotte Landbeck (born January 13, 1916 in Vienna , † February 15, 2013 in Quintal , Haute-Savoie , France ) was an Austrian figure skater and speed skater who started for Austria and Belgium .

In speed skating , Landbeck won the first unofficial world championship for women in Oslo in 1933 and also set several world records over 500 meters and 1000 meters .

In figure skating, Landbeck was Austrian champion in the women's competition in 1934 and 1935. She took part in this sport from 1932 to 1936 in all European championships . In 1934 in Prague and 1935 in St. Moritz , she was runner-up in Europe behind the Norwegian Sonja Henie . Landbeck took part in the World Championships in Zurich in 1933 and in Oslo in 1934 and won the bronze medal at the 1934 World Championships in Oslo behind Sonja Henie and Megan Taylor from England . In 1935 she married the Belgian figure skater Robert Verdun in Vienna and moved with him to his home country. At her only Olympic Games in 1936 in Garmisch-Partenkirchen, she then represented Belgium and finished in fourth place.

On February 21, 2011, when he published his book Van Küssnacht naar Argenteuil , Leo van Audenhaege claimed that Landbeck had an affair with the Belgian King Leopold III from 1939 to 1940 . have had. According to Audenhaege, a daughter named Ingeborg came from this. The royal family did not comment on this.

Results in figure skating

Competition / year	1932	1933	1934	1935	1936
winter Olympics					4th
World championships		6th	3.
European championships	5.	6th	2.	2.	4th
Austrian championships	5.	2.	1.	1.

Personal records in speed skating

• 500 m - 51.3 sec (January 13, 1934, Davos)
• 1000 m - 1: 48.5 min (January 22, 1933, Davos)

Web links

• Liselotte Landbeck in the database of Sports-Reference (English; archived from the original )
• Statistics on Landbeck's speed skating career

Individual evidence

1. ↑ http://www.gva.be/nieuws/binnenland/aid1020702/koning-albert-heeft-geheime-halfzus.aspx
2. ↑ http://theroyaluniverse.com/illegitimate-children-belgian-royal-family/
3. ↑ http://www.grenzecho.net/zeitung/aktuell/schlagzeilen_detail.asp?a= Genealogie151E0D7D-077B-45DA- BE31-99FB9F9389B4}