Regine Heitzer

Regine Heitzer
Regine Heitzer in 1962
Born	(1944-02-16) 16 February 1944 (age 80)
Height	5 ft 7 in (170 cm)
Figure skating career
Country	Austria
Skating club	Wien
Retired	1973
Medal record Representing  Austria Olympic Games 1964 Innsbruck Singles World Championships 1965 Colorado Springs Singles 1964 Dortmund Singles 1963 Cortina d'Ampezzo Singles 1962 Prague Singles European Championships 1966 Bratislava Singles 1965 Moscow Singles 1964 Grenoble Singles 1963 Budapest Singles 1962 Geneva Singles 1961 Berlin Singles 1960 Garmisch-Partenkirchen Singles

Regine Heitzer (born 16 February 1944) is a retired Austrian figure skater. She competed at the 1960 and 1964 Winter Olympics and won a silver medal in the singles event in 1964. Between 1960 and 1965 she also won 11 medals at European and world championships. In 1967 she turned professional and skated for Vienna Ice Revue and Holiday on Ice. She retired in 1971 due to a knee injury and rarely danced since then – in 1979 she skated with Emmerich Danzer to promote the World Championships in Vienna.^[1][2]

In the 1970s she turned to her father's business, wholesale upholstery fabrics, investing her earnings from her professional career. She eventually took over the company and converted it to a furniture store before retiring in 2010. In 1996 she was awarded a Decoration of Honour for Services to the Republic of Austria.^[3][2]