Helli Sengstschmid

Helene ( Helli ) Sengstschmid Tunner ( born February 21, 1944 in Vienna ) is a former Austrian figure skater, the club started in Vienna single run for the Cottage Engelmann. Your trainers were Mr. Steiner, wife Appeltauer, Mr. Wenninger and the legendary Karl Schäfer.

Career

Helli Sengstschmid ran the same time as her compatriot Regine Heitzer and the Dutch runner Sjoukje Dijkstra, with which it also is still in contact, as with the award-winning Soviet figure skating pair Protopopov from Saint Petersburg. In Austrian Championships, she had to settle behind Regine Heitzer always with space two or three, even though it was almost always rated as the best Kürläuferin. At 15, she was invited for half a year from their manager Karl Schäfer for training to America (New York and Lake Placid ) and lived with the family there and at Shepherd.

At the European Championships 1959/60, she managed to push forward the sixth overall with an outstanding performance in the long program, from 12th place after compulsory. She jumped as the first runner ever a triple Salchow. At the European Championships of 1962, 1963, 1964 and 1965 ( in Moscow) they always occupied the non thanked 4th place in all World Championships 1962-1965, it was enough with placements between the sixth and eighth place always for the Top Ten. The Universiade 1964/65 and 1968/69 they were each second in spite of the interposed therebetween break ( birth to her daughter Sabine 1966). At the Olympic Games 1964 in Innsbruck, it was after the compulsory competition in 18th position and finally reached with the third-best freestyle ninth overall.

In addition to the sports they graduated from high school (Matura) before studying English and sports.

In 1965 she went with her future husband, Peter Tunner, at Semperit Rally with and married in the same year, which also meant the temporary end of their sporting careers. Since that time she has lived in Innsbruck, where she found her daughter Sabine brought in 1966 to the world.

For many years she worked as a trainer at ICE Innsbruck and worked as a secondary school teacher of English and gymnastics. Since 2004 she has been retired, a widow since 2012 and is dedicated to their hobbies as skiing, painting, swimming and traveling.