Franziska "Fränzi" Schmidt (born 5 July 1943) is a Swiss former
figure skater
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who competed in ladies' singles. She is a three-time
Swiss national champion.
[ She finished in the top ten at two ]European Championships
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and competed at two Winter Olympics
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, placing 22nd in 1960
It is also known as the "Year of Africa" because of major events—particularly the independence of seventeen African nations—that focused global attention on the continent and intensified feelings of Pan-Africanism.
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and 23rd in 1964
Events January
* January 1 – The Federation of Rhodesia and Nyasaland is dissolved.
* January 5 – In the first meeting between leaders of the Roman Catholic and Orthodox churches since the fifteenth century, Pope Paul VI and Patria ...
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Results
References
Swiss female single skaters
1943 births
Olympic figure skaters for Switzerland
Figure skaters at the 1960 Winter Olympics
Figure skaters at the 1964 Winter Olympics
Living people
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