Ingrid Wendl
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Born | Vienna | 17 May 1940||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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Country | Austria | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Retired | 1971 | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Medal record
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Ingrid Turković-Wendl (born Ingrid Wendl on 17 May 1940 in Vienna) is an Austrian retired figure skater, television announcer, and political figure. She has been an Austrian People's Party delegate to the National Council of Austria since 2002.[citation needed]
Turković-Wendl is a two-time European champion (1956, 1958), the 1956 Olympic bronze medalist in ladies' figure skating,[1] and one of the youngest figure skating Olympic medalists. Among her contemporaries were fellow Austrians Hanna Eigel and Hanna Walter. Wendl later became a professional skater and performed in the Viennese Ice Revue (Vienna Ice Revue) and Ice Capades. She retired from the sport in 1971.
In 1972 she began working for ORF, the national Austrian public service broadcaster. She retired from broadcasting in 2000. Turković-Wendl was elected to the National Council of Austria in November 2002.
She is married to bassoonist Milan Turković.
Results
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Event | 1953 | 1954 | 1955 | 1956 | 1957 | 1958 |
Winter Olympics | 3rd | |||||
World Championships | 12th | 4th | 3rd | 3rd | 2nd | |
European Championships | 5th | 1st | 2nd | 1st | ||
National | ||||||
Austrian Championships | 2nd | 3rd | 1st | 1st | 1st |
References
[edit]- ^ Olympic results Archived 2011-04-21 at the Wayback Machine
- 1940 births
- Living people
- Austrian female single skaters
- Olympic bronze medalists for Austria
- Figure skaters at the 1956 Winter Olympics
- Olympic figure skaters for Austria
- Olympic medalists in figure skating
- World Figure Skating Championships medalists
- European Figure Skating Championships medalists
- Medalists at the 1956 Winter Olympics
- People from Landstraße
- Figure skaters from Vienna
- Austrian figure skating biography stubs