Nicole Hassler

Nicole Hassler
nation	France
birthday	June 1, 1941
place of birth	Chamonix
size	157 cm
Weight	47 kg
date of death	November 19, 1996
Career
discipline	Single run
Trainer	Albert Hassler
End of career	1966
Medal table
World Cup medals 0 × 0 × 1 × EM medals 0 × 1 × 3 ×
World figure skating championships bronze Cortina d'Ampezzo 1963 Ladies  European figure skating championships silver Budapest 1963 Ladies bronze Grenoble 1964 Ladies bronze Moscow 1965 Ladies bronze Bratislava 1966 Ladies

Nicole Hassler (born June 1, 1941 in Chamonix ; † November 19, 1996 ) was a French figure skater who started in a single run .

Nicole Hassler's father was Albert Hassler (1903-1994), the best French ice hockey player of the 1920s and 1930s. As captain of the national team he took part in the Olympic Games in 1924 , 1928 and 1936 , and in 1924 also in speed skating . It later acted as his daughter's trainer.

Hassler was French figure skating champion in 1960 and from 1962 to 1966 . In the period from 1959 to 1966 she took part in all European championships . In 1963 she was runner- up in Budapest, behind the Dutchwoman Sjoukje Dijkstra . In 1964 , 1965 and 1966 she won the bronze medal. In the period from 1958 to 1966 Hassler took part in seven world championships . There she was able to win her only world championship medal in Cortina d'Ampezzo in 1963 with bronze behind Dijkstra and the Austrian Regine Heitzer . Hassler played two Olympic Games . In 1960 in Squaw Valley she was eleventh and in 1964 in Innsbruck fourth.

After ending her amateur career, Hassler did not switch to the professionals and did not appear in ice shows like most other figure skaters. Instead, she devoted herself to raising her children. It was not until the early 1990s that she came back into contact with the figure skating world and founded a figure skating club.

Nicole Hassler

Results

Competition / year	1958	1959	1960	1961	1962	1963	1964	1965	1966
winter Olympics			11.				4th
World championships	23.		12.		6th	3.	4th	8th.	5.
European championships		16.	10.	8th.	6th	2.	3.	3.	3.
French championships	3.	2.	1.	2.	1.	1.	1.	1.	1.

Web links

• Nicole Hassler in the database of Sports-Reference (English; archived from the original )