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{{short description|Austrian figure skater (born 1951)}}
{{Infobox figure skater
| name                     = Trixi Schuba
| image                    = Beatrix Schuba 2011.jpg
| caption                  = Beatrix Schuba in 2011
| country                  = {{AUT}}
| birth_date               = {{Birth date and age|1951|4|15|df=y}}
| residence                = 
| height                   = 5 ft 7 in
| coach                    = 
| formercoach              = [[Helmut Seibt]] <br /> Leopold Linhart
| choreographer            = 
| formerchoreographer      = 
| skating club             = Wien
| retired                  = 1973
| medals                   = 
{{MedalSport | Ladies' [[Figure skating]] }}
{{MedalCountry | {{AUT}} }}
{{MedalCompetition | [[List of Olympic medalists in figure skating|Olympic Games]] }}
{{MedalGold | [[1972 Winter Olympics|1972 Sapporo]] | [[Figure skating at the 1972 Winter Olympics|Ladies' singles]] }}
{{MedalCompetition | [[World Figure Skating Championships|World Championships]] }}
{{MedalGold | [[1972 World Figure Skating Championships|1972 Calgary]] | Ladies' singles }}
{{MedalGold | [[1971 World Figure Skating Championships|1971 Lyon]] | Ladies' singles }}
{{MedalSilver | [[1970 World Figure Skating Championships|1970 Ljubljana]] | Ladies' singles }}
{{MedalSilver | [[1969 World Figure Skating Championships|1969 Colorado Springs]] | Ladies' singles }}
{{MedalCompetition | [[European Figure Skating Championships|European Championships]] }}
{{MedalGold | [[1972 European Figure Skating Championships|1972 Gothenburg]] | Ladies' singles }}
{{MedalGold | [[1971 European Figure Skating Championships|1971 Zürich]] | Ladies' singles }}
{{MedalSilver | [[1970 European Figure Skating Championships|1970 Leningrad]] | Ladies' singles }}
{{MedalBronze | [[1969 European Figure Skating Championships|1969 Garmisch-Partenkirchen]] | Ladies' singles }}
{{MedalBronze | [[1968 European Figure Skating Championships|1968 Västerås]] | Ladies' singles }}
}}

'''Beatrix "Trixi" Schuba''' (born 15 April 1951) is an [[Austria]]n former competitive [[figure skating|figure skater]] who competed in ladies' singles. She is a six-time [[Austrian Figure Skating Championships|Austrian national champion]] (1967–1972), a two-time [[European Figure Skating Championships|European champion]] ([[1971 European Figure Skating Championships|1971]] and [[1972 European Figure Skating Championships|1972]]), a two-time [[World Figure Skating Championships|World champion]] ([[1971 World Figure Skating Championships|1971]] and [[1972 World Figure Skating Championships|1972]]), and [[Figure skating at the 1972 Winter Olympics|1972 Olympic champion]].<ref name=sr-schuba/>

She is considered to be one of the best [[compulsory figures|compulsory figure]] skaters ever.<ref name=DH1983/><ref name=steps1996/><ref name=sivo2000/>

== Early life ==
Schuba was born in [[Vienna]]. After her father died when she was thirteen, she went to trade school and eventually took over the bookkeeping of her family's lumber business in Vienna; mornings were given to skating and afternoons to work.<ref name=CoVbio/>

==Competitive career==
Schuba's interest in figure skating began as a young child in 1955 when she happened to see an American competition on the television bought by her parents to watch performances of the [[Vienna State Opera]] and the [[Burgtheater]].<ref name=biographie/> She was coached by [[Helmut Seibt]] from 1955 to 1962,<ref name=EKEbioHS/> and then by Leopold Linhart.<ref name=sr-schuba/>

Her first major success was winning the ladies' singles portion of the [[Austrian Figure Skating Championships|Austrian Championships]] at the age of sixteen in 1967; she would go on to defend her title five straight times. Schuba steadily improved throughout the end of the 1960s and the early 1970s, placing in the top five several times and eventually taking first twice each at the European Championships and the World Championships in 1971 and 1972.<ref name=sr-schuba/>

Schuba's greatest success came in 1972 at the Winter Olympics at [[Sapporo]] when she won the gold medal.<ref name=AP720207/> She is the first Austrian lady since [[Herma Szabo]] in 1924 to win gold and is the most recent.<ref name=biographie/> Schuba, the dominant compulsory figures skater, placed first in the figures and [[Janet Lynn]] of the [[United States]], the top [[Free skating|free skater]], placed first after the free skate. As the scoring system used at the time placed more weight on figures, Schuba won the gold medal and Lynn won the bronze behind silver medalist [[Karen Magnussen]] of [[Canada]].<ref name=sr-sapporo/>

The [[International Skating Union]], the governing body of the sport, would over the ensuing years decrease the weight given the figures portion before finally eliminating it in 1990.<ref name=NYT880609/>

After winning gold at Sapporo, Schuba did the same the next month at the World Championships, successfully defending against silver medalist Magnussen and bronze medalist Lynn.<ref name=CP720313/> At the end of the year, sportswriters named her [[Austrian Sportspersonality of the year|Athlete of the Year]] for 1972.<ref name=AP721222/>

== Later career ==
Retiring from amateur skating, Schuba appeared over the succeeding six years in the professional shows [[Ice Follies]] and [[Holiday on Ice]], after which she began a career in the insurance industry which she continues to the present.<ref name=biographie/><ref name=DS060202/>

In addition to her career in insurance, Schuba is involved in various sports organizations in Austria.  She is a former president of the Austrian Ice Skating Association, the first woman to hold that position, and she sat on the board of the Austrian Olympic Committee from 2004 to 2009.<ref name=erfolge/> Schuba has served as president of the International Panathlon Club Wien since 2007, on the board of the [[Austrian Paralympic Committee]] since 2009, and as vice president of the [[Graz Skating Association]] since 2010.<ref name=erfolge/>

==Results==
{|  class="wikitable" style="text-align:center"
|-
! style="background-color: #ffdead; " colspan=7 align=center | International
|-
! Event
! 1967
! 1968
! 1969
! 1970
! 1971
! 1972
|-
| align=left | [[Figure skating at the Olympic Games|Winter Olympics]] || || 5th || || || || bgcolor=gold | 1st
|-
| align=left | [[World Figure Skating Championships|World Championships]] || 9th || 4th || bgcolor=silver | 2nd || bgcolor=silver | 2nd || bgcolor=gold | 1st || bgcolor=gold | 1st
|-
| align=left | [[European Figure Skating Championships|European Championships]] || 5th || bgcolor=cc9966 | 3rd || bgcolor=cc9966 | 3rd || bgcolor=silver | 2nd || bgcolor=gold | 1st || bgcolor=gold | 1st
|-
| align=left | [[Richmond Trophy]] || || bgcolor=silver | 2nd || || ||
|-
! style="background-color: #ffdead; " colspan=7 align=center | National
|-
| align=left | [[Austrian Figure Skating Championships|Austrian Championships]] || bgcolor=gold | 1st || bgcolor=gold | 1st || bgcolor=gold | 1st || bgcolor=gold | 1st || bgcolor=gold | 1st || bgcolor=gold | 1st
|}

==References==
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<ref name=DH1983>{{cite book | last1 = Hamill | first1 = Dorothy | first2 = Elva | last2 = Clairmont | title = Dorothy Hamill On and Off the Ice | year = 1983 | publisher = A.A. Knopf | isbn = 978-0-394-85610-0 | page = 114 | quote = Still, it was exciting to see all the famous foreign skaters, Karen Magnussen from Canada (the local girl); Beatrix Schuba, the girl from Austria who was said to have the best figures in the history of skating; little Christine Errath from East Germany and her teammate Sonja Morgenstern. }}</ref>

<ref name=steps1996>{{cite book | last1 = Künzle-Watson | first1 = Karin | first2 = Stephen J. | last2 = DeArmond | title = Ice Skating: Steps to Success | volume = 1 | year = 1996 | publisher = Human Kinetics | isbn = 978-0-87322-669-1 | page = [https://archive.org/details/iceskatingstepst00kunz/page/113 113] | quote = To this day, there are two individuals considered the best at this art: Gillis Grafström of Sweden, who was the men's Olympic champion in 1920, 1923, and 1928, and Beatrix "Trixi" Schuba of Austria, who was the women's Olympic champion in 1972. | url-access = registration | url = https://archive.org/details/iceskatingstepst00kunz/page/113 }}</ref>

<ref name=sivo2000>{{cite book | last = Sivorinovsky | first = Alina | title = Inside Figure Skating | year = 2000 | publisher = MetroBooks | isbn = 978-1-58663-005-8 | page = 17 | quote = Her closest competitor, 1972 Olympic champion Beatrix "Trixie" Schuba of Austria, was a lethargic freestyler but arguably the greatest figure skater the world had ever seen. }}</ref>

<ref name=biographie>{{cite web |url=http://www.trixischuba.at/bio.html |title=Biographie |work=Trixi Schuba |publisher=Zenker und Co |access-date=1 February 2011 |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20110315091230/http://www.trixischuba.at/bio.html |archive-date=15 March 2011 }}</ref>

<ref name=CoVbio>{{cite web | url = http://www.wien.gv.at/freizeit/sportamt/annodazumal/biografien/schuba.html | title = Trixi Schuba - Sportpersönlichkeit aus Wien | language = de | trans-title = Trixi Schuba - Sports Personality of Vienna | work = Wien.gv.at | publisher = Vienna Sports Department, City of Vienna | location = Vienna | access-date = 8 February 2011 | url-status = dead | archive-url = https://web.archive.org/web/20110706092828/http://www.wien.gv.at/freizeit/sportamt/annodazumal/biografien/schuba.html | archive-date = 6 July 2011 }}</ref>

<ref name=AP720207>{{cite news|url=https://news.google.com/newspapers?id=vcwlAAAAIBAJ&sjid=HvMFAAAAIBAJ&pg=1761,2300433&dq=beatrix+schuba&hl=en|title=U.S. men win on ice, but not like Dutchman.|agency=Associated Press |newspaper=The Miami News |date= 7 February 1972 |access-date= 22 January 2010 |location=Miami, FL |quote=And, just as she said she would, Miss Schuba used that lead to breeze to victory and a gold medal while Miss Holmes faded to fourth, giving Miss Magnussen, the North American champion, the silver and Miss Lynn, the four-time U.S. titlist, the bronze, America's second in the games. }}</ref>

<ref name=EKEbioHS>{{cite web | url = http://www.eke-vienna.net/EKE/index.php?option=com_content&view=article&id=163&Itemid=63 | title = Hellmut Seibt - A Life For Figure Skating | publisher = Eissport Klub Englemann | location = Vienna | access-date = 2011-02-05 | archive-date = 2014-03-02 | archive-url = https://web.archive.org/web/20140302212752/http://www.eke-vienna.net/EKE/index.php?option=com_content&view=article&id=163&Itemid=63 | url-status = dead }}</ref>

<ref name=erfolge>{{cite web |url=http://www.trixischuba.at/erfolge.html |title=Erfolge |work=Trixi Schuba |publisher=Zenker und Co |access-date=1 February 2011 |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20110316193507/http://www.trixischuba.at/erfolge.html |archive-date=16 March 2011 }}</ref>

<ref name=sr-schuba>{{cite web |url=https://www.sports-reference.com/olympics/athletes/sc/beatrix-schuba-1.html |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20200223132227/https://www.sports-reference.com/olympics/search/athlete_search.cgi?search=beatrix+schuba+ |url-status=dead |archive-date=23 February 2020 |title=Trixi Schuba Biography and Olympic Results |work=Sports Reference |access-date=1 February 2011}}</ref>

<ref name=sr-sapporo>{{cite web |url=https://www.sports-reference.com/olympics/winter/1972/FSK/womens-singles.html |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20200418021443/https://www.sports-reference.com/olympics/winter/1972/FSK/womens-singles.html |url-status=dead |archive-date=18 April 2020 |title=Figure Skating at the 1972 Sapporo Winter Games: Women's Singles |work=Sports Reference |access-date=1 February 2011}}</ref>

<ref name=CP720313>{{cite news | url = https://news.google.com/newspapers?id=DRQyAAAAIBAJ&sjid=5KEFAAAAIBAJ&pg=5727%2C5069444 | title = Trixi wins title and then retires | agency = Canadian Press | newspaper = The Montreal Gazette | location = Montreal | date = 13 March 1972 | page = 23 | access-date = 9 February 2011 | quote = Trixi Schuba, a sad Austrian girl who laughingly apologized for winning, has capped her international skating career by retaining her world figure-skating crown. }}</ref>

<ref name=AP721222>{{cite news | url = https://news.google.com/newspapers?id=GywyAAAAIBAJ&sjid=5-cFAAAAIBAJ&pg=1304%2C3418096 | title = Schuba Edges Proell As Athlete of Year | agency = Associated Press | newspaper = Lawrence Daily Journal-World | location = Lawrence, KS | date = 22 December 1972 | page = 15 | access-date = 24 August 2011 | quote = Austria's Beatrix Schuba, the world and Olympic figure skating champion, beat double World Cup ski winner and current leader in the Cup standings, Annemarie Proell, in a sports writers' poll of Best Athlete of the Year.}}</ref>

<ref name=NYT880609>{{cite news | url = https://www.nytimes.com/1988/06/09/sports/no-more-figures-in-figure-skating.html | title = No More Figures In Figure Skating | agency = Associated Press | newspaper = The New York Times | date = 9 June 1988 | access-date = 4 February 2011 | quote = Under the rule change, the figures' share of the total score, which was 60 percent 20 years ago, will go down immediately from 30 to 20 percent. A revamped short program's value will be increased to 30 percent from 20. }}</ref>

<ref name=DS060202>{{cite news | url = http://derstandard.at/2327585 | title = Trixi Schuba: "Mehr als zwei Schnitzel kann ich auch nicht essen am Tag" | language = de |trans-title=Trixi Schuba: "I can't eat more than two schnitzels a day" | first = Fritz | last = Neumann | work = [[Der Standard]] | date = 2 February 2006 | archive-url = https://web.archive.org/web/20140226092515/http://derstandard.at/2327585 | archive-date = 26 February 2014 | url-status = live }}</ref>

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==External links==
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* {{YouTube|SscrUDzeDcs|Trixi Schuba, Janet Lynn, and Karen Magnussen tracing figures at the 1972 Winter Olympics}}

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