Friederike "Fritzi" Schwingl (28 July 1921 – 9 July 2016) was an Austrian slalom and

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who competed from the late 1940s to the late 1950s. She won a bronze medal in the K-1 500 m event at the

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.Canoeing at the 1948 London Summer Games: Women's Kayak Singles, 500 metres Final Round
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Biography

Schwingl won four medals at the

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with two silvers (K-1 500 m:

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, K-2 500 m:

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) and two bronzes (K-1 500 m: 1950, K-2 500 m:

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). She also won seven medals at the

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with three golds (Folding K-1:

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; Folding K-1 team:

1949 Events January * January 1 – A United Nations-sponsored ceasefire brings an end to the Indo-Pakistani War of 1947. The war results in a stalemate and the division of Kashmir, which still continues as of 2025 * January 2 – Luis ...

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), two silvers (Folding K-1: 1949, 1951) and two bronzes (Folding K-1 team: 1953,

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). As of 2009, Schwingl was the only woman to medal at both the slalom and sprint canoeing world championships.

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