Hanna Eigel
Hanna Eigel ( born May 20, 1939 in Vienna ) is a former Austrian figure skater, which was launched in a single run. It is the European champion in 1955 and 1957.
Career
After visiting the lower middle school Hanna Eigel moved to a private trade school and then attended a private school for the tailoring trade. The Figure skating began at the age of seven years in the winter of 1946 / 47th She participated in various youth competitions and was a first audience in the 1949/50 season as the winner of the Association rookie running of the Austrian Association of skating and 1950/51 known as the winner of the Holofsky badge. Eigel was supported in the following years together with teammates Hanna Walter and Ingrid Wendl by the traditional Viennese skating club. This financed the rival runners, the training sessions, the ice ages and found two pairs of skates maßgefertige per year. Eigel improved continuously and won in season 1952/53, an international junior running. 1953/54, won the Viennese silver medal at the Austrian Championships and first participated in the European Championships in Italy Bolzano and the World Championships in Oslo, where she took a sixth or seventh place in the victories of the German Champion Gundi Busch.
The sporty breakthrough turned into the 1954/55 season. At the European Championships 1955 in Budapest Eigel won in their second European Championships the title before the two British women Yvonne Sugden and Erica Batchelor. At the world championships in the same year she won the bronze medal as the best European runner behind the U.S. women Tenley Albright and Carol Heiss. The following season she participated in the European Championships in 1956 and not finished the World Championship in Garmisch -Partenkirchen and the Olympic Winter Games in 1956 in the Italian Cortina d'Ampezzo in fifth place. In 1957, she was able to return to the previous successes. At the European Championships in her hometown, she won the title for the second time in front of their country women Ingrid Wendl and Hanna Walter. In the same year Eigel reached at the World Championships in the U.S. Colorado Springs their best finish at a World Cup and won silver behind the local hero and Olympic champion Carol Heiss.
After finishing her amateur career, Eigel dedicated in 1958 to the professional sport and brought it by appearing in ice shows on an annual income 40000-50000 Mark. It was for the successful Vienna Ice Revue committed where she appeared together with the former European champions Ingrid Wendl and Eva Pawlik. Also Eigel worked for the international competition companies Holiday on Ice, along with her husband Hami Brown, a Scottish ice - comedian.