Austrian canoeist (1921–2016)
Friederike "Fritzi" Schwingl (28 July 1921 – 9 July 2016) was an Austrian slalom and sprint canoeist who competed from the late 1940s to the late 1950s. She won a bronze medal in the K-1 500 m event at the 1948 Summer Olympics in London .[1]
Biography [ edit ] Schwingl won four medals at the ICF Canoe Sprint World Championships with two silvers (K-1 500 m: 1954 , K-2 500 m: 1950 ) and two bronzes (K-1 500 m: 1950, K-2 500 m: 1948 ). She also won seven medals at the ICF Canoe Slalom World Championships with three golds (Folding K-1: 1953 ; Folding K-1 team: 1949 , 1951 ), two silvers (Folding K-1: 1949, 1951) and two bronzes (Folding K-1 team: 1953, 1957 ). As of 2009, Schwingl is the only woman to medal at both the slalom and sprint canoeing world championships.
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1949 (folding): Austria (Heidi Pillwein , Fritzi Schwingl & Gerti Pertlwieser ) 1951 (folding): Austria (Gerti Pertlwieser , Fritzi Schwingl & Heidi Pillwein ) 1953 (folding): Czechoslovakia (Jaroslava Havlová , Dana Martanová & Květa Havlová ) 1955 (folding): East Germany (Eva Setzkorn , Elfriede Hugo & Karin Tietze ) 1957 (folding): East Germany (Elfriede Hugo , Eva Setzkorn & Brigitte Magnus ) 1959 (folding): East Germany (Ursula Gläser , Eva Setzkorn & Elfriede Hugo ) 1961 (folding): Not held 1963 (folding): East Germany (Anneliese Bauer , Ursula Gläser & Lia Merkel ) 1965: East Germany (Ursula Gläser , Bärbel Richter & Lia Merkel ) 1967: East Germany (Bärbel Richter , Dagmar Sickert & Helga Luber ) 1969: West Germany (Ulrike Deppe , Bärbel Körner & Brigitte Schwack ) 1971: East Germany (Angelika Bahmann , Veronika Stampe & Dagmar Kriste ) 1973: United States (Louise Holcombe , Lyn Ashton & Candice Clark ) 1975: Switzerland (Elisabeth Käser , Danielle Kamber & Cornelia Bachofner ) 1977: Switzerland (Elisabeth Käser , Kathrin Weiss & Claire Costa ) 1979: United States (Cathy Hearn , Linda Harrison & Becky Judd ) 1981: West Germany (Ulrike Deppe , Susanne Erbers & Gabriele Köllmann ) 1983: France (Marie-Françoise Grange , Sylvie Arnaud & Myriam Jerusalmi ) 1985: France (Sylvie Arnaud , Marie-Françoise Grange & Myriam Jerusalmi ) 1987: West Germany (Margit Messelhäuser , Ulla Steinle & Elisabeth Micheler ) 1989: France (Myriam Jerusalmi , Marie-Françoise Grange-Prigent & Anne Boixel ) 1991: France (Myriam Jerusalmi , Anouk Loubie & Marianne Agulhon ) 1993: France (Myriam Jerusalmi , Sylvie Lepeltier & Anne Boixel ) 1995: France (Anne Boixel , Myriam Jerusalmi & Isabelle Despres ) 1997: Germany (Evi Huss , Kordula Striepecke & Mandy Planert ) 1999: Germany (Susanne Hirt , Evi Huss & Mandy Planert ) 2002: France (Aline Tornare , Mathilde Pichery & Anne-Lise Bardet ) 2003: Czech Republic (Štěpánka Hilgertová , Vanda Semerádová & Irena Pavelková ) 2005: Czech Republic (Irena Pavelková , Marcela Sadilová & Štěpánka Hilgertová ) 2006: France (Mathilde Pichery , Émilie Fer & Marie Gaspard ) 2007: Germany (Jennifer Bongardt , Mandy Planert & Jasmin Schornberg ) 2009: Great Britain (Lizzie Neave , Louise Donington & Laura Blakeman ) 2010: Czech Republic (Štěpánka Hilgertová , Irena Pavelková & Marie Řihošková ) 2011: Slovakia (Elena Kaliská , Jana Dukátová & Dana Mann ) 2013: Czech Republic (Štěpánka Hilgertová , Kateřina Minařík Kudějová & Eva Ornstová ) 2014: France (Carole Bouzidi , Nouria Newman & Émilie Fer ) 2015: Czech Republic (Kateřina Minařík Kudějová , Veronika Vojtová & Štěpánka Hilgertová ) 2017: Germany (Jasmin Schornberg , Ricarda Funk & Lisa Fritsche ) 2018: France (Lucie Baudu , Marie-Zélia Lafont & Camille Prigent ) 2019: Great Britain (Mallory Franklin , Fiona Pennie & Kimberley Woods ) 2021: Great Britain (Kimberley Woods , Fiona Pennie & Mallory Franklin ) 2022: Germany (Ricarda Funk , Elena Lilik & Jasmin Schornberg ) 2023: Australia (Jessica Fox , Noemie Fox & Kate Eckhardt )