Ingrid Turković-Wendl (born Ingrid Wendl on 17 May 1940 in

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) is an

Austria Austria, , bar, Östareich officially the Republic of Austria, is a country in the southern part of Central Europe, lying in the Eastern Alps. It is a federation of nine states, one of which is the capital, Vienna, the most populous ...

n retired figure skater, television announcer, and political figure. She has been an Austrian People's Party delegate to the

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since 2002. Turković-Wendl is a two-time

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champion (1956, 1958), the 1956 Olympic bronze medalist in ladies' figure skating,Olympic results
and one of the youngest figure skating Olympic medalists. Among her contemporaries were fellow Austrians

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and

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. Wendl later became a professional skater and performed in the Viennese Ice Revue (

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) and

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. She retired from the sport in 1971. In 1972 she began working for

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, the national Austrian public service broadcaster. She retired from broadcasting in 2000. Turković-Wendl was elected to the

in November 2002. She is married to bassoonist Milan Turković.

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1940 births Living people Austrian female single skaters Olympic bronze medalists for Austria Figure skaters at the 1956 Winter Olympics Olympic figure skaters of Austria Figure skaters from Vienna Olympic medalists in figure skating World Figure Skating Championships medalists European Figure Skating Championships medalists Medalists at the 1956 Winter Olympics {{Austria-figure-skater-stub