Vivi-Anne Hultén

Vivi-Anne Hultén
nation	Sweden
birthday	August 25, 1911
place of birth	Antwerp, Belgium
date of death	January 15, 2003
Place of death	Corona del Mar, California, USA
Career
discipline	Single run
society	Stockholm's Allmänna Skridskoklubb
Medal table
Olympic medals 0 × 0 × 1 × World Cup medals 0 × 1 × 3 × EM medals 0 × 0 × 2 ×
winter Olympics bronze Garmisch-Partenkirchen 1936 Ladies  World figure skating championships silver Stockholm 1933 Ladies bronze Vienna 1935 Ladies bronze Paris 1936 Ladies bronze London 1937 Ladies  European figure skating championships bronze Berlin 1930 Ladies bronze Paris 1932 Ladies

Vivi-Anne Hultén (born August 25, 1911 in Antwerp , Belgium , † January 15, 2003 in Corona del Mar , California , USA ) was a Swedish figure skater who started in a single run .

Hultén was five times Swedish champion in figure skating between 1927 and 1929 and 1933 and 1934. She took part in European championships from 1930 to 1932 . At the first European championship in which there was a women's competition, she won the bronze medal in Vienna in 1930 behind the Austrians Fritzi Burger and Ilse Hornung . In 1932 in Paris she won bronze again, this time behind Sonja Henie and Fritzi Burger. In the period from 1931 to 1937 Hultén took part in world championships . She never placed worse than fifth. In 1933 she was runner-up behind Sonja Henie in Stockholm . At the World Championships in 1935 , 1936 and 1937 she won the bronze medal three times in a row, once behind Henie and Cecilia Colledge , then behind Henie and Megan Taylor and most recently behind the two Britons Colledge and Taylor. Hultén represented Sweden at two Olympic Games , in 1932 in Lake Placid she was fifth and in 1936 in Garmisch-Partenkirchen she won the bronze medal behind Sonja Henie and Cecilia Colledge.

Hultén was trained by Gillis Grafström's brother. She herself said to compare Henie and herself that she was a dancer and Henie was an acrobat. Sir Peter Scott , an early admirer of her, once said of her: “She was different from most of the other figure skaters. She neither had the thick, muscular legs of the Axel-jumping girls, nor did she fill her freestyle with ever faster turns. She was not so much an athlete as a dancer, not so much an athlete as an artist. Her freestyle programs had more artistry than any other combined. "

After the end of her amateur career, Hultén switched to the pros and toured with Ice Follies, Ice Cycles and Ice Capades. In 1938 she married the American steel mill owner Tholand. She later married the Finnish figure skater Gene Theslof , who had been Sonja Henie's pair skating partner with the pros for seven years. Together they toured the US and Europe with Ice Capades. They moved to the United States in the mid-1960s, where Hultén and her husband opened a large ice skating school in Saint Paul , Minnesota . She was also hired as an ice skating coach for the Minnesota North Stars by Herb Brooks . She ran before the Swedish royal couple and was still working at Ice Capades in Minneapolis when she was 80 . She continued to train until she was 86 years old. Her husband died in 1983.

Vivi-Anne Hultén died on January 15, 2003 at the age of 91 in a nursing home of heart failure after pneumonia. After suffering a stroke four years earlier, she had moved to California to live with her son Gene Theslof and their two grandchildren Tyler and Nick Theslof . Nick Theslof is a soccer coach and worked as a scout for Jürgen Klinsmann when he was coach at FC Bayern Munich .

Results

Competition / year	1927	1928	1929	1930	1931	1932	1933	1934	1935	1936	1937
winter Olympics						5.				3.
World championships					5.	5.	2.	4th	3.	3.	3.
European championships				3.	4th	3.
Swedish championships	1.	1.	1.				1.	1.

Web links

• Vivi-Anne Hultén in the Sports-Reference database (English; archived from the original )
• Vivi-Anne Hulten, 91, Swedish Skater

Individual evidence

1. ↑ http://www.independent.co.uk/news/obituaries/vivianne-hulten-729993.html