Lily Kronberger
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Born | (1890-11-12)12 November 1890 | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Died | 21 May 1974(1974-05-21) (aged 83) | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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Retired | 1911 | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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Lily Kronberger (12 November 1890 – 21 May 1974),[1][2] also spelled Lili Kronberger, was a Hungarian figure skater competitive during the early years of modern figure skating. She was Hungary’s first World Champion.
Early life
Kronberger was born in Budapest in 1890[1][3] as the youngest child and only daughter of Miksa Kronberger (1857-1902), a lumber merchant, and Janka Kreisler (1867-1927).
Career
Kronberger won a World bronze medal in 1906, at the first official World Championships to include a ladies' event.
She won bronze again in 1907, and four gold medals from 1908 to 1911.[4]" She was the first athlete to win a world championship gold for Hungary.
At the 1911 championship in Vienna, she caused a stir by bringing a military band along to play during her free skating program,[5][6] which included a "clear interpretation"[7] of the music she used, even though the use of music during international figure skatine competitions was rare at the time.[7]
Later in 1911, she married Imre Szent-Györgyi[3] and retired from competition, handing the baton over to Opika Méray Horváth.
She died in Budapest in 1974, at the age of 83.[2]
Halls of Fame
Kronberger, who was Jewish, was inducted into the International Jewish Sports Hall of Fame in 1983.[4]
She was inducted into the World Figure Skating Hall of Fame in 1997.
Results
Event | 1906 | 1907 | 1908 | 1909 | 1910 | 1911 |
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World Championships | 3rd | 3rd | 1st | 1st | 1st | 1st |
Hungarian Championships* | 1st | 1st | 1st |
*Co-ed competition from 1900–1922
See also
References
- ^ a b Entry number 2317 in the 1890 birth register of the Jewish congregation of Pest (Accessed 17 May 2020)
- ^ a b Budapest District II civil register of deaths, entry 701/1974 (Accessed 17 May 2020)
- ^ a b Budapest District V civil register of marriages, entry 154/1911 (Accessed 17 May 2020)
- ^ a b Lili Kronberger at Jewishsports.net
- ^ "ÖNB-ANNO - Blatt der Hausfrau - Heft 20 - Seite 5". anno.onb.ac.at. Retrieved 2020-06-13.
- ^ Blog, Skate Guard. "Skate Guard: Marches And Mazurkas: Music's Role In Figure Skating History". Skate Guard. Retrieved 2020-06-13.
- ^ a b Kestnbaum, Ellyn (2003). Culture on Ice: Figure Skating and Cultural Meaning. Middleton, Connecticut: Wesleyan Publishing Press. p. 103. ISBN 0-8195-6641-1.
- International Jewish Sports Hall of Fame – Lili Kronberger
- "From the Ghetto to the Games: Jewish Athletes in Hungary," 1985
External links
- Skating in Hungary 2004 European Figure Skating Championships
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Petra Burka
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Peggy Fleming
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Gabriele Seyfert
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Trixi Schuba
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Trixi Schuba
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Karen Magnussen
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Christine Errath
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Dianne de Leeuw
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Dorothy Hamill
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Linda Fratianne
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Anett Pötzsch
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Linda Fratianne
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Anett Pötzsch
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Denise Biellmann
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Elaine Zayak
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Rosalynn Sumners
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Katarina Witt
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Katarina Witt
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Debi Thomas
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Midori Ito
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Jill Trenary
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Oksana Baiul
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Yuka Sato
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Chen Lu
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Michelle Kwan
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Tara Lipinski
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Michelle Kwan
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Maria Butyrskaya
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Michelle Kwan
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Michelle Kwan
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Irina Slutskaya
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Michelle Kwan
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Shizuka Arakawa
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Irina Slutskaya
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Kimmie Meissner
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Miki Ando
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Mao Asada
- 2009:
Yuna Kim
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Mao Asada
- 2011:
Miki Ando
- 2012:
Carolina Kostner
- 2013:
Yuna Kim
- 2014:
Mao Asada
- 2015:
Elizaveta Tuktamysheva
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Evgenia Medvedeva
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Evgenia Medvedeva
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Kaetlyn Osmond
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Alina Zagitova
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Anna Shcherbakova
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Kaori Sakamoto
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Kaori Sakamoto
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