Nathalie Krieg (born 21 October 1977) is a
Swiss
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* Swiss people
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* Swiss, North Carolina
*Swiss, West Virginia
* Swiss, Wisconsin
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former competitive
figure skater
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. She is the 1993 and 1994
Swiss national champion. She represented
Switzerland at the 1994 Winter Olympics, where
she placed 16th. Krieg competed three times at the
World Championships
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, with a highest placement of 14th in 1994, and four times at the
European Championships
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, with a highest placement of 10th in 1994.
Krieg was known for her intricate spins with a variety of positions; she also once spun for also three and a half minutes straight on a TV show. She trained spins in preference to jumps because she had a limited amount of on-ice training time and the ice sessions were crowded.
Results
References
Sports-reference profile
Swiss female single skaters
Olympic figure skaters for Switzerland
Figure skaters at the 1994 Winter Olympics
1977 births
Living people
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