Vivi-Anne Hultén
Vivi- Anne Hultén ( born August 25, 1911 in Antwerp, Belgium, † January 15, 2003 in Corona del Mar, California, United States) was a Swedish figure skater, who started in a single run.
Hultén was five times Swedish champion in figure skating ladies in the years 1927-1929 and 1933 and 1934. She took from 1930 to 1932 at the European Championships in part. The first European Championship in which there was a women's competition, she won the bronze medal in 1930 in Vienna behind the Austrians Fritzi Burger and Ilse Hornung. In Paris in 1932, she won bronze again, this time behind Sonja Henie and Fritzi Burger. In the period 1931-1937 Hultén participated in the World Championships. You never placed worse than fifth. In 1933 she was in Stockholm Vice World Champion behind Sonja Henie. At the World Championships in 1935, 1936 and 1937, she won the bronze medal three times in succession, once behind Henie and Cecilia Colledge, Megan Taylor and then behind Henie and finally after two British women and Colledge Taylor. Hultén represented Sweden in two Olympic Games, in 1932 in Lake Placid, she was fifth in 1936 in Garmisch -Partenkirchen she won the bronze medal behind Sonja Henie and Cecilia Colledge.
Hultén was trained by Gillis Grafströms brother. She herself said to the comparison between Stephenie and that she was a dancer and an acrobat Henie. Sir Peter Scott, who was an admirer of her early on, once said of her: " She was different than most of the other skaters. She had neither the thick muscular legs Axel - jumping girls yet they filled their freestyle with increasingly rapid spins. She was not so much an athlete, but a dancer, not so much sportswoman, but an artist. Your Free Programmes had more skill than all the others combined. ".
After the end of her amateur career Hultén moved to the pros and toured with Ice Follies, Ice Capades Ice Cycles and. She later married the Finnish figure skater genes Theslof, who had been seven years pair skating partner of Sonja Henie in the pros. Together they toured with Ice Capades by the U.S. and Europe. Mid-sixties, they moved to the U.S. where Hultén with her husband opened a large ice skating school in Saint Paul, Minnesota. She was also hired as a skating coach for the Minnesota North Stars of Herb Brooks. She ran to the Swedish royal couple and still had 80 years with Ice Capades in Minneapolis. Until she was 86 years old, she trained yet. Her husband died in 1983.
Vivi- Anne Hultén died on 15 January 2003 at the age of 91 years in a nursing home of heart failure following pneumonia. She was, after four years previously had a stroke, moved to California with her son Gene Theslof and her two grandchildren, Tyler and Nick Theslof. Nick Theslof is a football coach and worked as a scout for Jurgen Klinsmann, as this coach at Bayern Munich was.