Gilbert Fuchs
Gilbert Fuchs | |
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Born | 1871 Graz, Austria |
Died | 1952 Germany |
Figure skating career | |
Country | Germany |
Medal record |
Gilbert Fuchs (1871–1952) was a German
.Relations with his constant rival
Fuchs mastered figure skating on his own, after learning gymnastics, weightlifting, and stone put. After finishing secondary school, he served in a cavalry regiment, later studying agriculture in Vienna. Still later, he moved to Munich in the German state of Bavaria, where he studied forestry. He practised figure skating on Germany's first artificial ice rink, "Unsöldsche Kunsteisbahn", which opened in 1892, and he represented Munich EV and Germany in competitions. Fuchs was a founding member of the Karlsruhe Ice Skating Club, founded in 1911.[2] He wrote a book titled "Theory and Practice of Figure Skating" (German: "Theorie und Praxis des Kunstlaufes am Eise"), published in 1926.[3]
Outside figure skating, Fuchs studied the
Results
Event | 1895 | 1896 | 1897 | 1898 | 1899 | 1900 | 1901 | 1902 | 1903 | 1904 | 1905 | 1906 | 1907 | 1908 | 1909 |
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World Championships | 1st | † | 3rd | 2nd | 1st | 3rd | 2nd | ||||||||
European Championships | 3rd | 2nd | 2nd | 2nd | |||||||||||
German Championships | 1st | 1st | 1st |
† Did not enter after being injured in a hunting accident in the high mountains
References
- ^ "Münchener Eislauf-Verein" [Munich Ice Skating Club]. Munich EV. Archived from the original on 13 August 2009.
- ^ "Chroniken der Karlsruher Sportvereine: Karlsruher Eislauf- und Tennisverein" [Chronicles of the Karlsruhe sports clubs: Karlsruhe Ice Skating and Tennis Club]. karlsruhe.de. Retrieved 27 September 2020.
- ^ "Fuchs, Gilbert : Eiskunstlauf in Theorie und Praxis - 97/3577". German Sport University Cologne. Archived from the original on 12 August 2011.