Kurt Oppelt

Kurt Oppelt ( born March 18, 1932 in Vienna ) is a former Austrian figure skater, who started in a single run and pair skating.

Oppelt began his career as a loner. 1951 and 1952 he finished third at the Austrian Championships and 1953 runner-up. In the 1952 Olympics he finished in eleventh place. Eleventh He was also in his only world championship is in a single run the following year. At the European Championship 1953, he was forced to withdraw.

In pair skating Oppelt joined along with Sissy black. They were from 1952 to 1956 Austrian champion. In 1952 she had her international debut as a couple. Both at the European Championships as well as the World Cup they finished in seventh place, the Olympic Games in Oslo, they finished in ninth place. Already in the following year, she won bronze at the European Championships behind the British Jennifer and John Nicks and Hungary Marianna and László Nagy their first medal. At the World Cup, they were sixth. 1954, Oppelt and Black in Bolzano European runner-up behind the Swiss Silvia and Michel Grandjean and won in Oslo with bronze behind the Canadians Frances Dafoe and Norris Bowden and the Grand jeans their first World Cup medal. In 1955 she did not participate in the European Championship. At the World Cup, they were subject to extremely tight Canadians Dafoe and Bowden and thus were runners-up. The year 1956 marked the culmination of the career of the Austrian couple. They were in Paris European champion, in Garmisch -Partenkirchen World champion and Olympic champion in Cortina d'Ampezzo.

Results

Single run

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Pair of running

( with Sissy Black)

Awards (excerpt)

Winter Olympic Games 1954 World Figure Skating Championships 1955 World Figure Skating Championships 1956 World Figure Skating Championships 1953 European Figure Skating Championships 1954 European Figure Skating Championships 1956 European Figure Skating Championships Single skating 1953 World Figure Skating Championships Sissy Schwarz 1952 European Figure Skating Championships 1952 World Figure Skating Championships Jennifer Nicks Marianna Nagy (figure skater) Silvia Grandjean List of Olympic medalists in figure skating Pierre Brunet (figure skater) Ernst Baier Micheline Lannoy Ria Baran Barbara Wagner Oleg Protopopov Irina Rodnina Alexander Gennadiyevich Zaitsev Oksana Kazakova David Pelletier Shen Xue Maxim Trankov Phyllis Johnson James H. Johnson Karl Mejstrik Ludwig Wrede Peter Kennedy (figure skater) Maria Jelinek Otto Jelinek Irina Vorobieva Tassilo Thierbach Barbara Underhill Isabelle Brasseur Lloyd Eisler Ingo Steuer Pang Qing Aliona Savchenko Robin Szolkowy Olga Orgonista Idi Papez Karl Zwack Yuko Kavaguti Alexander Smirnov (figure skater) Melitta Brunner Ilse Pausin Erik Pausin Eva Pawlik Stina Martini Severin Kiefer Miriam Ziegler
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