Vivi-Anne Hultén
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Vivi-Anne Hultén in 1932
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| Country represented | Sweden | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Born | 25 August 1911 Antwerp, Belgium |
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| Skating club | Stockholms Allmänna Skridskoklubb | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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Vivi-Anne Hultén (25 August 1911 – 15 January 2003) was a Swedish figure skater who competed in ladies' singles. She was the 1936 Olympic bronze medalist, a four-time World medalist, a two-time European bronze medalist, and a ten-time Swedish national champion.
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Personal life
Vivi-Anne Hultén was born in Antwerp, Belgium. In 1942, she married Gene Theslof, a Finnish figure skater and weightlifter,[1] with whom she had a son of the same name.[2] Hultén died on 15 January 2003 at age 91 of heart failure in Corona del Mar, California.[3] She was the grandmother of American soccer coach Nick Theslof.
Career
Hultén was coached by the brother of Gillis Grafström.[1] She finished fifth at the 1932 Winter Olympics. In 1933, she finished second to Sonia Henie at the 1933 World Championships, held in Stockholm.[1]
Hultén won the bronze medal at the 1936 Winter Olympics in Garmisch-Partenkirchen. Swedish newspapers named her the country's all-time female athlete. A lake in Budapest has a statue of her performing a spiral.[3]
After turning professional, Hultén toured with the Ice Follies, Ice Cycles, and Ice Capades. She formed an adagio pair with Gene Theslof, who had skated with Henie for seven years, and toured the United States and Europe with him. In the mid 1960s, she settled in the United States and opened a large skating school in St. Paul, Minnesota with Theslof.
Hultén was hired as a skating coach by Herb Brooks for his Minnesota North Stars hockey team. She performed for the King and Queen of Sweden and also skated in ten ice shows with Ice Capades in Minneapolis, Minnesota at age 80. She actively taught on the ice until age 86.
Results
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| Event | 1927 | 1928 | 1929 | 1930 | 1931 | 1932 | 1933 | 1934 | 1935 | 1936 | 1937 |
| Winter Olympics | 5th | 3rd | |||||||||
| World Champ. | 5th | 5th | 2nd | 4th | 3rd | 3rd | 3rd | ||||
| European Champ. | 3rd | 4th | 3rd | ||||||||
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| Swedish Champ. | 1st | 1st | 1st | 1st | 1st | ||||||
References
- Pages with broken file links
- 1911 births
- Swedish female single skaters
- Olympic figure skaters of Sweden
- Figure skaters at the 1932 Winter Olympics
- Figure skaters at the 1936 Winter Olympics
- Olympic bronze medalists for Sweden
- 2003 deaths
- Olympic medalists in figure skating
- World Figure Skating Championships medalists
- European Figure Skating Championships medalists
- Medalists at the 1936 Winter Olympics
