Regine Heitzer

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Regine Heitzer figure skating
Regine Heitzer (1964)

Regine Heitzer (1964)

nation AustriaAustria Austria
birthday February 16, 1944
place of birth Vienna
Career
discipline Single run
Medal table
Olympic medals 0 × gold 1 × silver 0 × bronze
World Cup medals 0 × gold 3 × silver 1 × bronze
EM medals 2 × gold 4 × silver 1 × bronze
Olympic rings winter Olympics
silver Innsbruck 1964 Ladies
ISU World figure skating championships
bronze Prague 1962 Ladies
silver Cortina d'Ampezzo 1963 Ladies
silver Dortmund 1964 Ladies
silver Colorado Springs 1965 Ladies
ISU European figure skating championships
silver Garmisch-Partenkirchen 1960 Ladies
silver Berlin 1961 Ladies
silver Geneva 1962 Ladies
bronze Budapest 1963 Ladies
silver Grenoble 1964 Ladies
gold Moscow 1965 Ladies
gold Bratislava 1966 Ladies
 

Regine Heitzer (born February 16, 1944 in Vienna ) is a former Austrian figure skater who started in a single run . She is the European champion from 1965 and 1966 .

Life

Heitzer built on the successes of her compatriots Hanna Eigel , Ingrid Wendl and Hanna Walter from the 1950s. From 1960 to 1966 she was Austrian champion in figure skating for women. In the period from 1958 to 1966 she took part in all nine European championships , where she landed on the podium seven times in a row from 1960 to 1966. In 1960 , 1961 , 1962 and 1964 she was vice-European champion behind the dominant Dutch woman Sjoukje Dijkstra . In 1963 she won bronze behind Dijkstra and the French Nicole Hassler and in 1965 and 1966 (in Pressburg ) Heitzer was finally European champion. With the exception of 1961, Heitzer took part in all world championships from 1958 to 1965 . From 1962 to 1965 she reached the podium four times in a row, but without making the leap to the top. At the 1962 World Cup , Heitzer won bronze behind Sjoukje Dijkstra and the Canadian Wendy Griner . In 1963 and 1964 she was runner-up behind the Dutch woman and in 1965 behind the Dutch-born Canadian Petra Burka . Heitzer represented Austria at two Olympic Games ; In 1960 in Squaw Valley she finished seventh and in 1964 in Innsbruck , she won the silver medal behind Sjoukje Dijkstra. She could never beat the Dutchwoman, but was the second best figure skater in the world in the early 1960s and a diligent collector of medals. In total, she won twelve medals at the Olympic Games, World Championships and European Championships.

After the end of her amateur career (her resignation on February 12, 1966, before the World Championships in Davos , came as a surprise), she switched to the professionals, appeared in a show in Berlin at the end of June 1966 and ran from 1967 to 1971 at the Wiener Eisrevue and Holiday On Ice, until a numbness in her foot in Prague made figure skating impossible for her. She then started working in her father's business, a wholesaler of upholstered furniture, in which she invested her income from her professional career.

Results

Competition / year 1958 1959 1960 1961 1962 1963 1964 1965 1966
winter Olympics 7th 2.
World championships 12. 7th 4th 3. 2. 2. 2.
European championships 8th. 5. 2. 2. 2. 3. 2. 1. 1.
Austrian championships 1. 1. 1. 1. 1. 1. 1.

Awards

Web links

Commons : Regine Heitzer  - Collection of images, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

  1. Regine Heitzer resigned . In: Arbeiter-Zeitung . Vienna February 13, 1966, p. 16 ( Arbeiter-zeitung.at - the open online archive - digitized).
  2. Message overview at the bottom right . In: Arbeiter-Zeitung . Vienna June 28, 1966, p. 12 ( berufer-zeitung.at - the open online archive - digitized).
  3. List of all decorations awarded by the Federal President for services to the Republic of Austria from 1952 (PDF; 6.9 MB)