Fritzi Burger

Personal information
Full name	Friederike Burger
Born	(1910-06-06)6 June 1910 Vienna,Austria-Hungary
Died	16 February 1999(1999-02-16) (aged 88) Bad Gastein,Austria
Figure skating career
Country	Austria
Retired	1934
Medal record Representing Austria Figure skating:Ladies' singles Olympic Games 1932 Lake Placid Ladies' singles 1928 St. Moritz Ladies' singles World Championships 1929 Budapest Ladies' singles 1932 Montreal Ladies' singles 1928 London Ladies' singles 1931 Berlin Ladies' singles European Championships 1930 Vienna Ladies' singles 1932 Paris Ladies' singles 1931 St. Moritz Ladies' singles 1933 London Ladies' singles

Friederike "Fritzi" Burger (6 June 1910 – 16 February 1999) was an Austrianfigure skater. She was a two-timeOlympic silver medalist (1928, 1932), a four-timeWorld medalist (silver in 1929 and 1932, bronze in 1928 and 1931), the1930 European champion, and a four-timeAustrian national champion (1928–1931).

Burger was born on 6 June 1910 inVienna.^[1] Her family wasJewish.^[2]

Burger was the Austrian national champion from 1928 to 1931. She won the first-ever contestedEuropean Championships, held in 1930.Sonja Henie, who held a monopoly in women's figure skating at the time, was not present at this championship. She placed second behind Henie at the1928 and1932 Winter Olympics and earned bronze medals at the1929 World Championships, behind Henie andMaribel Vinson of the U.S., and at the1931 World Championships, behind Henie andHilde Holovsky from Austria.^[3]

After the 1932 Olympics, Burger ended her skating career and went toLondon, where in 1935 she married Shinkichi Nishikawa, a grandson of the Japanese pearl tycoonKōkichi Mikimoto.^[4] She returned with her husband to Vienna, where she gave birth to her son in the summer of 1937, just before theAnschluss (annexation of Austria by Nazi Germany). She, her husband and her son moved to London in 1938 and a few years later moved to Tokyo, Japan, where Mr. Nishikawa was from.

In the 1990s, living in the United States, Burger was interviewed for several documentaries on the history of figure skating. She joked in a 1994 interview, "I had two husbands. [Sonja Henie] even beat me at that. She had three."^[5] She died on 16 February 1999 inBad Gastein, Austria.^[1]

• List of select Jewish figure skaters

• 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"
• Reviews of "Searching for Fritzi," 1999

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

• 1910 births
• 1999 deaths
• Figure skaters from Vienna
• Austrian female single skaters
• Jewish Austrian sportspeople
• Olympic silver medalists for Austria
• Olympic figure skaters for Austria
• Figure skaters at the 1928 Winter Olympics
• Figure skaters at the 1932 Winter Olympics
• Olympic medalists in figure skating
• World Figure Skating Championships medalists
• European Figure Skating Championships medalists
• Medalists at the 1928 Winter Olympics
• Medalists at the 1932 Winter Olympics

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