Beatrix Schuba

Trixi Schuba
Full name	Beatrix Schuba
nation	Austria
birthday	April 15, 1951
place of birth	Vienna ,  Austria
size	170 cm
Weight	67 kg
Career
discipline	Single run
society	Vienna ice skating club
Trainer	Leopold Linhart
Medal table
Olympic medals 1 × 0 × 0 × World Cup medals 2 × 2 × 0 × EM medals 2 × 1 × 2 ×
winter Olympics gold Sapporo 1972 Ladies  World figure skating championships silver Colorado Springs 1969 Ladies silver Ljubljana 1970 Ladies gold Lyon 1971 Ladies gold Calgary 1972 Ladies  European figure skating championships bronze Västerås 1968 Ladies bronze Garmisch-Partenkirchen 1969 Ladies silver Leningrad 1970 Ladies gold Zurich 1971 Ladies gold Gothenburg 1972 Ladies

Beatrix "Trixi" Schuba (born April 15, 1951 in Vienna ) is a former Austrian figure skater who started in a single run . She is the Olympic champion of 1972 , the world champion of 1971 and 1972 and the European Championships of 1971 and 1972 . The Viennese woman changed her baptismal name Beatrix to "Trixi" in the mid-1980s and has since used this name in all official documents.

Career

Active years

Beatrix Schuba stood on ice skates for the first time at the age of four. Her parents Ernst and Berta ran a timber business in the 1st district of Vienna. She lost her father at the age of eleven and helped her mother's business at an early age. After successfully completing business school, she worked here as an accountant in the afternoons, as she trained figure skating in the morning.

From 1967 to 1972 Schuba was Austrian champion in figure skating for women. During the same period, she took part in European and world championships . At European Championships, with the exception of her first participation, in 1967 in Ljubljana , where she was fifth, she always landed on the podium. In 1968 and 1969 she won the bronze medal behind Hana Mašková and Gabriele Seyfert , in 1970 she was vice European champion behind Seyfert and in 1971 in Zurich and in 1972 in Gothenburg , after Seyfert's resignation, finally European champion. At world championships she was after a ninth place in 1967 and a fourth place in 1968 , in 1969 and 1970 vice world champion behind Gabriele Seyfert. After the GDR runner resigned, she won the gold medal in Lyon in 1971 and in Calgary in 1972 . Schuba represented Austria at two Olympic Games , in 1968 in Grenoble she finished fifth and in 1972 in Sapporo she became Olympic champion . This year, the Viennese won the only gold medal at the Olympic Winter Games and the Olympic Games for Austria. Schuba was a very strong compulsory figure runner, but only an average free skier. Due to the high weighting of the mandatory figures in the final result at that time, she was able to compensate for this. She was trained by Leopold Linhart .

For her gold medal in Sapporo she was voted Austria's Sportswoman of the Year on December 21, 1972 . The award took place at the «17th Sports press festival »on June 13, 1973 as part of the international soccer match between Austria and Brazil.
Winning the gold medal was not only overshadowed by the exclusion of Karl Schranz before the games , it had obviously prompted many Austrian fans to send Schuba (and others like Annemarie Pröll in particular ) insulting letters with words such as “traitor” disavow (this because of the great injustice from their point of view, and connected with the fact that they did not declare solidarity with Schranz and did not renounce the start).

After the active time

After her Olympic victory in 1972 and before the introduction of the short program, which would have reduced her chances, Schuba first went to the American ice revue Ice Follies, then to Holiday on Ice . For six years she was traveling with the Eisrevue in North and South America, Europe and Israel.

After the end of her professional career, Schuba worked from 1979 to 2015 as an employee of Wiener Städtische Versicherung (now Vienna Insurance Group), where she a. a. Diplomats and employees of the UN City of Vienna. In 1996 she received the Golden Decoration of Honor for Services to the Republic of Austria . Schuba was President of the Austrian Figure Skating Association from 2002 to 2006 and also a member of the Austrian Olympic Committee from 2004 to 2009 . She worked as an Olympic ambassador for Salzburg's application for the 2014 Winter Games . She tries to promote young talents and regrets the marginal sport existence that figure skating is now leading in Austria. Trixi Schuba has been Honorary President of the Graz Ice Skating Club since 2010 . Since then she has also been an OK member of the Icechallenge, Europe's largest figure skating event on the ISU calendar in Graz. Schuba was significantly involved in the Graz World Championship application for the World Figure Skating Championship, which was canceled in 2011 due to the natural disaster in Japan. In 2017 Trixi Schuba was inducted into the Hall of Fame of Figure Skating in Colorado Springs. At the World Figure & Fancy Championships, Vail, Colorado, Trixi Schuba has been a judge on the jury since 2015.

Trixi Schuba has been supporting young visual artists in Vienna since 2017 - as part of their Trixis.open.art.club!

successes

Competition / year	1967	1968	1969	1970	1971	1972
winter Olympics		5.				1.
World championships	9.	4th	2.	2.	1.	1.
European championships	5.	3.	3.	2.	1.	1.
Austrian championships	1.	1.	1.	1.	1.	1.

Awards

• Austria's athlete of the year : 1972

Publications

• 2016 (together with Egon Theiner ): The freestyle of my life , EGOTH-Verlag, Vienna 2016, ISBN 978-3-902480-15-6

Web links

• Beatrix Schuba in the Sports-Reference database (English; archived from the original )
• Official website

Individual evidence

1. ↑ "Schuba best athlete" . In: Arbeiter-Zeitung . Vienna December 22, 1972, p. 15 ( berufer-zeitung.at - the open online archive - digitized).
2. ↑ «Australia versus Austria. Press festival with athletes' honor » . In: Arbeiter-Zeitung . Vienna June 13, 1973, p. 13 ( berufer-zeitung.at - the open online archive - digitized).
3. ↑ List of winners of the Medal of Honor for Services to the Republic of Austria . Retrieved December 11, 2015.