Franziska "Fränzi" Schmidt (born 5 July 1943) is a Swiss former
figure skater
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who competed in ladies' singles. She is a three-time
Swiss national champion.
[ She finished in the top ten at two ]European Championships
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and competed at two Winter Olympics
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, placing 22nd in 1960
It is also known as the " Year of Africa" because of major events—particularly the independence of seventeen African nations—that focused global attention on the continent and intensified feelings of Pan-Africanism.
Events
January
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and 23rd in 1964
Events January
* January 1 – The Federation of Rhodesia and Nyasaland is dissolved.
* January 5 - In the first meeting between leaders of the Roman Catholic and Orthodox churches since the fifteenth century, Pope Paul VI and Patriarc ...
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Results
References
Swiss female single skaters
1943 births
Olympic figure skaters of Switzerland
Figure skaters at the 1960 Winter Olympics
Figure skaters at the 1964 Winter Olympics
Living people
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