Regine Heitzer
Regine Heitzer ( born February 26, 1944) is a former Austrian figure skater, which was launched in a single run. It is the European champion in 1965 and 1966.
Life
Heitzer followed up on the success of their country women Hanna Eigel, Ingrid Wendl and Hanna Walter from the fifties. It was from 1960 to 1966 Austrian champion in figure skating ladies. In the period from 1958 to 1966, she participated in all nine part European Championships, where she landed seven times from 1960 to 1966 in succession on the podium. 1960, 1961, 1962 and 1964 she became vice European champion behind the dominant Dutch Sjoukje Dijkstra. In 1963 she won the bronze medal behind Dijkstra and the Frenchwoman Nicole Hassler and 1965 and 1966 finally Heitzer was European champion. With the exception of 1961 Heitzer took from 1958 to 1965 in all world championships. From 1962 to 1965 she reached it four times in a row on the podium, but without making the leap to the top. At the World Cup 1962 Heitzer won bronze behind Sjoukje Dijkstra and the Canadian Wendy Griner. 1963 and 1964 she was vice-world champion behind the Dutch and 1965 behind the born in the Netherlands Canadian Petra Burka. Heitzer represented Austria at two Olympic Games; 1960 in Squaw Valley, she took seventh place and 1964 in the domestic Innsbruck, she won the silver medal behind Sjoukje Dijkstra. You could defeat the Dutch never, but it was in the early sixties, the second-best figure skater in the world and a diligent collector of medals. Overall, she won twelve medals at Olympic Games, World Championships and European Championships.
After the end of her amateur career, she moved to the pros and ran from 1967 to 1971 at the Vienna Ice Revue and Holiday On Ice, to Prague in numbness in the foot figure skating made it impossible for them. Then she began working in her father's business, a wholesaler of upholstered furniture in which they invested their income from their professional career.