Fritzi Burger

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Olympic medal record
Figure skating
Silver	1928 St. Moritz	Ladies' singles
Silver	1932 Lake Placid	Ladies' singles

Friederike "Fritzi" Burger (Jun 6, 1910, Vienna - Feb 16, 1999, Portland, Maine? ) was an Austrian figure skater competitive in the late 1920s and early 1930s.

She won the first-ever contested European Championships held in 1930. Sonja Henie, who held a monopoly in women's figure skating at the time, was not present at this championship and Burger never defeated her in competition. She placed second behind Henie at the 1928 and 1932 Winter Olympics and in the 1929 and 1932 World Championships.

After the 1932 Olympics, Burger ended her skating career and went to London, where in 1935 she married Shinkichi Nishikawa, a grandson of the Japanese pearl tycoon Kokichi Mikimoto [1]. She returned with her husband to Vienna where she gave birth to her son in the spring of 1938, just before Austria's annexation by Nazi Germany.

In the 1990s, living in the United States, she was interviewed for several documentaries on the history of figure skating.

[edit] Competitive highlights

Event	1928	1929	1930	1931	1932	1933
Olympic Games	2nd				2nd
Worlds	3rd	2nd		3rd	2nd
Europeans			1st	2nd	2nd	3rd

[edit] Quotes

"I had two husbands. She even beat me at that. She had three." -- Fritzi Burger speaking of Sonja Henie, in a 1994 interview.^[1]

[edit] References

[edit] External links

• Picture of Fritzi Burger
• New York Times topics: In the Fading Light Of the Brilliant Henie
• Jews in sports - Burger, Fritzi
• Preface to "Searching for Fritzi"

[edit] Book

• Carol Bergman (1999). Searching for Fritzi. Mediacs. ISBN 0-9673134-0-6. 

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Persondata
NAME	Burger, Fritzi
ALTERNATIVE NAMES	Burger, Friederike
SHORT DESCRIPTION	Austrian figure skater
DATE OF BIRTH	June 6, 1910
PLACE OF BIRTH	Vienna
DATE OF DEATH	February 16, 1999
PLACE OF DEATH	Portland, Maine?