Herta Ratzenhofer (27 June 1921 – 6 January 2010) was an Austrian

pair skater Pair skating is a figure skating discipline defined by the International Skating Union (ISU) as "the skating of two persons in unison who perform their movements in such harmony with each other as to give the impression of genuine Pair Skating a ...

. Competing with her brother

Emil Ratzenhofer Emil Ratzenhofer (born 2 August 1914, date of death unknown) was an Austrian pair skater. Competing with his sister Herta Ratzenhofer, he won five gold medals at the Austrian Figure Skating Championships. The pair won the bronze medal at the Europe ...

, she won five gold medals at the

Austrian Figure Skating Championships The Austrian Figure Skating Championships (german: Österreichische Staatsmeisterschaften) are a figure skating national championship held annually to determine the national champions of Austria. Skaters compete in the disciplines of men's single ...

. The pair won the bronze medal at the

European Figure Skating Championships The European Figure Skating Championships is an annual figure skating competition in which figure skaters compete for the title of European champion. Medals are awarded in the disciplines of men's singles, women's singles, pair skating, an ...

in 1948 and 1949, and they finished ninth at the

1948 Winter Olympics The 1948 Winter Olympics, officially known as the V Olympic Winter Games (german: V. Olympische Winterspiele; french: Ves Jeux olympiques d'hiver; it, V Giochi olimpici invernali; rm, V Gieus olimpics d'enviern) and commonly known as St. Moritz ...

. Ratzenhofer died in Austria on 6 January 2010, at the age of 88.Olympedia: Herta Ratzenhofer profile
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;Pairs with Ratzenhofer

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1921 births 2010 deaths Austrian female pair skaters European Figure Skating Championships medalists Figure skaters at the 1948 Winter Olympics Olympic figure skaters of Austria {{Austria-figure-skater-stub