Sissy black

Sissy black
Full name	Elisabeth Schwarz
nation	Austria
birthday	May 19, 1936
place of birth	Vienna
Career
discipline	Pair skating
Partner	Kurt Oppelt
society	Vienna Ice Skating Club
status	resigned
Medal table
Olympic medals 1 × 0 × 0 × World Cup medals 1 × 1 × 1 × EM medals 1 × 1 × 1 ×
winter Olympics gold Cortina d'Ampezzo 1956 Couples  World figure skating championships bronze Oslo 1954 Couples silver Vienna 1955 Couples gold Garmisch-Partenkirchen 1956 Couples  European figure skating championships bronze Dortmund 1953 Couples silver Bolzano 1954 Couples gold Paris 1956 Couples

Elisabeth "Sissy" Black , married. Bollenberger (* 19th May 1936 in Vienna ) is a former Austrian Figure Skating - Olympic champion , in the individual race and in the pairs figure skating started.

Career

In the individual run, Schwarz was Austrian runner-up in 1952 . At the Olympic Games in 1952 , she finished 19th. At the European Championships in 1953 , she was ninth.

In pair skating, Schwarz competed with Kurt Oppelt . They were Austrian champions from 1952 to 1956 . In 1952 they made their international debut as a couple. They finished seventh at both the European and World Championships , and they finished ninth at the Oslo Olympic Games . The following year they won their first medal with bronze at the European Championships behind Britons Jennifer and John Nicks and Hungarians Marianna and László Nagy . They finished sixth at the World Cup . In 1954, Schwarz and Oppelt became runner-up European champions behind the Swiss Silvia and Michel Grandjean in Bolzano and won their first world championship medal in Oslo with bronze behind Canadians Frances Dafoe and Norris Bowden and the grand jeans. In 1955 they did not take part in the European Championship. At the world championship they were very tightly defeated by Canadians Dafoe and Bowden and thus became vice world champions. The year 1956 marked the culmination of the Austrian couple's career. They were in Paris European Championship , in Garmisch-Partenkirchen World Champion and in Cortina d'Ampezzo Olympic champion . At the end of January 1957 the Austrian sports journalists voted for "Sportsman of the Year 1956", together with partner Oppelt (behind Toni Sailer ), she finished second.

Private

Schwarz's son was the lawyer Raimund Bollenberger .

Sissy Schwarz lives with her family in Wiener Neustadt .

Results

Single run

Competition / year	1952	1953
winter Olympics	19th
European championships		9.
Austrian championships	2.

Pair skating

(with Kurt Oppelt )

Competition / year	1952	1953	1954	1955	1956
winter Olympics	9.				1.
World championships	7th	6th	3.	2.	1.
European championships	7th	3.	2.		1.
Austrian championships	1.	1.	1.	1.	1.

Web links

• Sissy Schwarz in the Sports-Reference database (English; archived from the original )

Individual evidence

1. ↑ Toni Sailer Sportsman of the Year . In: Arbeiter-Zeitung . Vienna January 31, 1957, p. 10 ( berufer-zeitung.at - the open online archive - digitized).
2. ↑ Peter Bylinski, Martin Spitzer: Obituary for Raimund Bollenberger. In: ÖJZ 2019/49. Retrieved October 19, 2019 .