Melitta Brunner

Melitta Brunner
nation	Austria
birthday	January 28, 1907
place of birth	Vienna
date of death	May 26, 2003
Place of death	Philadelphia, USA
Career
discipline	Single run, pair run
Partner	Ludwig Wrede
Medal table
Olympic medals 0 × 0 × 1 × World Cup medals 0 × 2 × 2 ×
winter Olympics bronze St. Moritz 1928 Couples  World figure skating championships bronze London 1928 Couples silver Budapest 1929 Couples bronze Budapest 1929 Ladies silver New York City 1930 Couples

Melitta Brunner (born January 28, 1907 in Vienna , † May 26, 2003 in Philadelphia ) was an Austrian figure skater who started in single and pair skating .

Trading card from Melitta Brunner

In the individual run she was Austrian runner-up five times in a row from 1926 to 1930, first twice behind Herma Szabó and then three times behind Fritzi Burger . From 1928 to 1930 she took part in world championships and won her only medal with bronze at the 1929 World Championship in Budapest behind Sonja Henie and Fritzi Burger. At the Olympic Games in 1928 , she was seventh.

She was more successful in pair skating with Ludwig Wrede . In 1930 they became Austrian champions. At the world championship in 1928 they won bronze and in 1929 and 1930 they became vice world champions, first behind their compatriots Lilly Scholz and Otto Kaiser and then behind the French Andrée and Pierre Brunet . They won bronze at the 1928 Olympic Games in St. Moritz . She became a successful professional runner and married the figure skater Paul Kreckow.

Results

Single run

Competition / year	1926	1927	1928	1929	1930
winter Olympics			7th
World championships			5.	3.	5.
Austrian championships	2.	2.	2.	2.	2.

Pair skating

(with Ludwig Wrede )

Competition / year	1928	1929	1930
winter Olympics	3.
World championships	3.	2.	2.
Austrian championships		3.	1.

Web links

• Melitta Brunner in the Sports-Reference database (English; archived from the original )
• Photography from the Bibliothèque nationale de France