Heinrich Burger
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1908 London | Pairs |
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Heinrich Burger skates with Anna Hübler | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Born | (1881-05-31)31 May 1881 Munich, German Empire | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Died | 27 April 1942(1942-04-27) (aged 60) Munich, Germany | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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Country | Germany | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Retired | 1910 | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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Heinrich Burger (31 May 1881 – 27 April 1942) was a German figure skater. He competed in both singles and pairs events. He was Olympic champion and two-time World champion together with Anna Hübler.[1]
Burger and Hübler were the first world champions and the first Olympic champions in pairs figure skating. They never became European champions, because the European championships did not include a pairs competition until 1930. They skated for the club Müchener EV (Munich EV).
Heinrich Burger was also a lawyer in Munich.
Results
(men's singles)
Event | 1904 | 1905 | 1906 | 1907 | 1908 |
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World Championships | 2nd | 2nd | 5th | 3rd | |
European Championships | WD | 2nd | |||
German Championships | 1st | 1st | 1st |
(pairs with Anna Hübler)
Event | 1907 | 1908 | 1909 | 1910 |
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Summer Olympic Games | 1st | |||
World Championships | 1st | 1st | ||
German Championships | 1st | 1st |
References
- ^ "Heinrich Burger". Olympedia. Retrieved 26 March 2021.
Sources
Hines, James R. (2011). Historical dictionary of figure skating. Lanham, Md.: Scarecrow Press. ISBN 9780810868595.
- journal Eis- und Rollsport, 49th year, No. 9, 5 January 1939
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- 1908: Anna Hübler / Heinrich Burger (GER)
- 1920: Ludowika Jakobsson / Walter Jakobsson (FIN)
- 1924: Helene Engelmann / Alfred Berger (AUT)
- 1928: Andrée Joly / Pierre Brunet (FRA)
- 1932: Andrée Brunet / Pierre Brunet (FRA)
- 1936: Maxi Herber / Ernst Baier (GER)
- 1948: Micheline Lannoy / Pierre Baugniet (BEL)
- 1952: Ria Baran / Paul Falk (GER)
- 1956: Sissy Schwarz / Kurt Oppelt (AUT)
- 1960: Barbara Wagner / Robert Paul (CAN)
- 1964: Ludmila Belousova / Oleg Protopopov (URS)
- 1968: Ludmila Belousova / Oleg Protopopov (URS)
- 1972: Irina Rodnina / Alexei Ulanov (URS)
- 1976: Irina Rodnina / Alexander Zaitsev (URS)
- 1980: Irina Rodnina / Alexander Zaitsev (URS)
- 1984: Elena Valova / Oleg Vasiliev (URS)
- 1988: Ekaterina Gordeeva / Sergei Grinkov (URS)
- 1992: Natalia Mishkutionok / Artur Dmitriev (EUN)
- 1994: Ekaterina Gordeeva / Sergei Grinkov (RUS)
- 1998: Oksana Kazakova / Artur Dmitriev (RUS)
- 2002: Elena Berezhnaya / Anton Sikharulidze (RUS)
2002: Jamie Salé / David Pelletier (CAN) - 2006: Tatiana Totmianina / Maxim Marinin (RUS)
- 2010: Shen Xue / Zhao Hongbo (CHN)
- 2014: Tatiana Volosozhar / Maxim Trankov (RUS)
- 2018: Aljona Savchenko / Bruno Massot (GER)
- 2022: Sui Wenjing / Han Cong (CHN)
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