Marika Kilius

Marika Kilius ( born March 24, 1943 in Frankfurt am Main ) is a former German figure skater and roll, which was successful in both the World Championships and at the Olympic Winter Games in pair skating. In their short recording career she was also successful.

Sports career

Age of four learned Kilius roller skating and was 15 ½ years Roller Figure Skating World Champion, the youngest German World Champion of all time. With Franz Ningel it was from 1955 to 1957 German champion in artistic roller skating couples.

Born the daughter of a hairdresser in Frankfurt, Marika Kilius began figure skating at first as individual runners, but moved early to the pair of running. My first partner was Franz Ningel. With him it was from 1955 to 1957 German champion in pair skating. During the same period, the couple took three times at European Championships and won there, in Budapest, Paris and Vienna, always the bronze medal. At World Championships Kilius and Ningel won two medals. 1956 in Garmisch -Partenkirchen she won bronze in 1957 in Colorado Springs, they were runner-up behind the Canadians Barbara Wagner and Robert Paul. At the 1956 Olympic Games in Cortina d' Ampezzo they missed in fourth just a medal.

Late as 1957 moved Kilius figure skating partner and entered from then on with Hans -Jürgen Baumler. With him it was in the years 1958, 1959, 1963 and 1964 German Champion in pair skating. From 1959 to 1964 she became European champion six times in a row. Their first World Cup medal they won in 1959 in Colorado Springs with silver behind the Canadians Barbara Wagner and Robert Paul. 1960 in Vancouver, they won the bronze medal. 1963 in Cortina d' Ampezzo and 1964 in Dortmund were Kilius and Baumler world champion. Together, they run two Olympic Games. Both in 1960 in Squaw Valley as well as in 1964 in Innsbruck, they won the silver medal, just behind Wagner and Paul, then behind Lyudmila Belousova and Oleg Protopopov from the Soviet Union. Them the medal in 1964 but was withdrawn after it was announced that they had signed a professional contract before the Olympics. Then they gave the 1964 Medals 1966 to the IOC back. However, in 1987 they got back the medals from the International Olympic Committee and have been fully rehabilitated.

In 2011 she was taken - together with Hans -Jürgen Baumler - in the Hall of Fame of German sport.

Results

Pair of running

( with Franz Ningel )

( with Hans -Jürgen Baumler )

Record and film

Immediately after the Olympic Winter Games in 1964 and before the 1964 World Championships concluded Marika Kilius a recording contract with the German branch of the U.S. record company Columbia - CBS from which the single When the Cowboys dream / published two Indians from Winnipeg in February 1964. The title, if the Cowboys are already dreaming appeared in early March in the hit parade of music trade magazine music market and then rose to the second place. Likewise, the successful duet recording with Hans -Jürgen Baumler honeymoon was in St. Tropez, which took second place in July 1964. More Results reached the title cavalier, Cavalier ( 18 ), I'm not Eskimo ( 23 ) and another duet with Hans -Jürgen Baumler ( First came an amorous glance, 26 ). Until 1965 Marika Kilius took five solo and three duet singles ( with H.-J. Baeumler ).

Parallel to their first recordings appeared Marika Kilius in the Eisrevuefilm by Franz Antel The great freestyle with. The film, in which she played herself and in which she sang her record title cavalier, cavalier, I'm not an Eskimo and Honey -Moon in St. Tropez ( with H.-J. Baeumler ), had in October 1964 premiere. In 1967, she turned with Baeumler still a sequel, The great fortune and was with him in 1971 in the film One spins always be seen in a cameo.

Private life

1964 married Marika Kilius the 23-year manufacturer's son ( Ibelo lighters ) Werner Zahn from Sulzbach am Main / Frankfurt. As the first marriage and the second marriage was with the American businessman Jake Orfield. She has two children from her first marriage, and two granddaughters.

In October 2006, she was with her former partner Hans -Jürgen Baumler on the jury in the RTL show Dancing on Ice.

Filmography

Winter Olympic Games 1956 World Figure Skating Championships 1957 World Figure Skating Championships 1959 World Figure Skating Championships 1960 World Figure Skating Championships 1963 World Figure Skating Championships 1964 World Figure Skating Championships 1955 European Figure Skating Championships 1956 European Figure Skating Championships 1957 European Figure Skating Championships 1959 European Figure Skating Championships 1960 European Figure Skating Championships 1961 European Figure Skating Championships 1962 European Figure Skating Championships 1963 European Figure Skating Championships 1964 European Figure Skating Championships Single skating Germany's Sports Hall of Fame 1955 World Figure Skating Championships German Figure Skating Championships List of Olympic medalists in figure skating 1958 World Figure Skating Championships 1958 European Figure Skating Championships Columbia Records Musikmarkt Einer spinnt immer Phyllis Johnson James H. Johnson Karl Mejstrik Ludwig Wrede Pierre Brunet (figure skater) Ernst Baier Micheline Lannoy Peter Kennedy (figure skater) Ria Baran Jennifer Nicks John Nicks Frances Dafoe Norris Bowden Sissy Schwarz Kurt Oppelt Maria Jelinek Otto Jelinek Irina Rodnina Alexander Gennadiyevich Zaitsev Irina Vorobieva Tassilo Thierbach Barbara Underhill Isabelle Brasseur Lloyd Eisler Ingo Steuer David Pelletier Shen Xue Pang Qing Aliona Savchenko Robin Szolkowy Maxim Trankov Olga Orgonista Idi Papez Karl Zwack Marianna Nagy (figure skater) Silvia Grandjean Michel Grandjean Oksana Kazakova Yuko Kavaguti Alexander Smirnov (figure skater) Hugo Winzer Wolfgang Danne Eberhard Rausch Almut Lehmann Andreas Nischwitz Christina Riegel Axel Rauschenbach Peggy Schwarz Claudia Rauschenbach Eva-Maria Fitze Rico Rex Daniel Wende Ruben Blommaert Integrated Authority File
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