Anna "Annie" Hübler (2 January 1885 – 5 July 1976) was a German

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 ...

, born in

Munich Munich ( ; german: München ; bar, Minga ) is the capital and most populous city of the German state of Bavaria. With a population of 1,558,395 inhabitants as of 31 July 2020, it is the third-largest city in Germany, after Berlin and ...

. She was an

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champion and two-time

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champion with skating partner

Heinrich Burger Heinrich Burger (31 May 1881 – 27 April 1942) was a German figure skating, figure skater. He competed in both singles and pairs events. He was Figure skating at the Olympics, Olympic champion and two-time World Figure Skating Championships ...

. Hübler and Burger were the first World champions and the first Olympic champions in pairs figure skating. They never became European champions, because the European championships did not include a pairs competition until 1930. They skated for the club Münchener EV (

EV). Hübler was the first female German Olympic champion. (The first woman winning an Olympic medal for Germany was the single skater

Elsa Rendschmidt Elsa Rendschmidt (11 January 1886 – 9 October 1969) was a German figure skater and the first German woman to compete and win a medal at the Olympic Games. Rendschmidt won the silver medal at the 1908 Summer Olympics, the first Olympics ...

. She won silver in 1908.) After retiring from figure skating, Hübler became a singer and actress. She later owned a department store.

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* 1885 births Sportspeople from Munich German female pair skaters Figure skaters at the 1908 Summer Olympics Olympic figure skaters of Germany 1976 deaths Olympic gold medalists for Germany Olympic medalists in figure skating World Figure Skating Championships medalists Officers Crosses of the Order of Merit of the Federal Republic of Germany Medalists at the 1908 Summer Olympics {{Germany-figure-skating-bio-stub

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