Sissy Schwarz
Full name	Elisabeth Schwarz
Other names	Schwarz-Bollenberger
Born	(1936-05-19)19 May 1936 (age 88) Vienna, Austria
Figure skating career
Country	Austria
Retired	1956
Medal record Representing Austria Pairs'Figure skating Olympic Games 1956 Cortina d'Ampezzo Pairs World Championships 1956 Garmisch-Partenkirchen Pairs 1955 Vienna Pairs 1954 Oslo Pairs European Championships 1956 Paris Pairs 1954 Bolzano Pairs 1953 Davos Pairs

Elisabeth "Sissy" Schwarz (born 19 May 1936)^[1] is an Austrian formerfigure skater who is best known for her career inpair skating. WithKurt Oppelt, she is the1956 Olympic champion, the1956 World champion, the1956 European champion, and a five-timeAustrian national champion (1952–56).

Schwarz competed insingle skating for a few years. She took the silver medal at the 1952 Austrian Championships, placed 19th at the1952 Winter Olympics, and finished ninth at the1953 European Championships. She never competed at the World Championships as a singles skater.

Her partner inpair skating wasKurt Oppelt. In 1952, they won their first national title and were sent to their firstEuropean Championships, where they placed seventh. The pair then competed at the1952 Winter Olympics inOslo, Norway, where they placed ninth, and at the1952 World Championships, finishing seventh.

Schwarz/Oppelt stepped onto the European podium for the first time at the1953 European Championships, where they won the bronze medal, and then placed sixth at theWorld Championships. In 1954, they becameEuropean silver medalists and went on to win their first World medal, bronze, at the1954 World Championships. They followed it up with silver at the1955 World Championships, finishing as close runners-up to Canada'sFrances Dafoe /Norris Bowden, who took their second World title.

After winning the Austrian national title for the fifth consecutive year, Schwarz/Oppelt became the1956 European champions. They then competed at the1956 Winter Olympics inCortina d'Ampezzo, Italy. Skating to Banditenstreiche byFranz von Suppé,^[2] they won the gold medal ahead of Dafoe/Bowden, who faltered on a lift, causing them to finish after their music ended. The judging panel was split 6 to 3 in favor of Schwarz/Oppelt.^[3]

Schwarz/Oppelt went on to win the1956 World title before retiring from competition. In the summer of 1956, they joined the Wiener Eisrevue and performed in ice shows for three or four years.^[4]

In 1968, she decided to open a skating club inWiener Neustadt and worked with Rudolf Lang to build a skating rink.^[2]

Schwarz married a lawyer and became known as Schwarz-Bollenberger.^[4] She has three children and lives inWiener Neustadt.^[2]

• Video clip of Schwartz and Oppelt at the 1956 Olympics
• Video clip of Schwartz and Oppelt at the 1956 World Championships (rare and only pair recorded)
• Video clip Video clip of 1956 World Championships Medal Ceremony.

• 1936 births
• Living people
• Austrian female pair skaters
• Austrian female single skaters
• Figure skaters at the 1952 Winter Olympics
• Figure skaters at the 1956 Winter Olympics
• Olympic figure skaters for Austria
• Olympic gold medalists for Austria
• Figure skaters from Vienna
• Olympic medalists in figure skating
• World Figure Skating Championships medalists
• European Figure Skating Championships medalists
• Medalists at the 1956 Winter Olympics

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