Petra Burka

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Olympic medal record
Women's Figure Skating
Bronze 1964 Innsbruck Singles

Petra Burka (born 17 November 1946) is a former world champion figure skater and now coach.

Burka was born in Amsterdam, Netherlands on 17 November 1946, the daughter of Ellen Burka, and came to Canada with her parents in 1951. In 1961, she was the Junior Canadian Skating Champion and the Senior Canadian Champion between 1964-1966. In 1965 she won the World Figure Skating Championships, the first Canadian to win the event since Barbara Ann Scott in 1947. She represented Canada at the 1964 Olympics and won the bronze medal. She was also two times bronze medallist at the World Championships.

Burka is credited as being the first woman to land a triple jump, a triple salchow at the 1962 Canadian Championships.

Her other achievements were winning Canada's Outstanding Athlete of the Year in 1964 and twice winning Canada's Outstanding Female Athlete of the Year in 1964 and 1965. Since her retirement she took on coaching as well as being a commentator on figure skating events for CBC and CBS for Olympic, World, European and Canadian championships.

Event/Season 1962 1963 1964 1965 1966
Canadian Championships 2nd 2nd 1st 1st 1st
North American Championships - 2nd - 1st -
World Championships - - 3rd 1st 3rd
Winter Olympics - - 3rd - -

World champions in figure skating – Ladies' singles

1906-1907: Madge Syers-Cave | 1908-1911: Lily Kronberger | 1912-1914: Opika von Méray Horváth | 1922-1926: Herma Szabo | 1927-1936: Sonja Henie | 1937: Cecilia Colledge | 1938-1939: Megan Taylor | 1947-1948: Barbara Ann Scott | 1949-1950: Alena Vrzáňová | 1951: Jeannette Altwegg | 1952: Jacqueline du Bief | 1953: Tenley Albright | 1954: Gundi Busch | 1955: Tenley Albright | 1956-1960: Carol Heiss | 1962-1964: Sjoukje Dijkstra | 1965: Petra Burka | 1966-1968: Peggy Fleming | 1969-1970: Gabriele Seyfert | 1971-1972: Beatrix Schuba | 1973: Karen Magnussen | 1974: Christine Errath | 1975: Dianne de Leeuw | 1976: Dorothy Hamill | 1977: Linda Fratianne | 1978: Anett Pötzsch | 1979: Linda Fratianne | 1980: Anett Pötzsch | 1981: Denise Biellmann | 1982: Elaine Zayak | 1983: Rosalynn Sumners | 1984-1985: Katarina Witt | 1986: Debi Thomas | 1987-1988: Katarina Witt | 1989: Midori Ito | 1990: Jill Trenary | 1991-1992: Kristi Yamaguchi | 1993: Oksana Baiul | 1994: Yuka Sato | 1995: Chen Lu | 1996: Michelle Kwan | 1997: Tara Lipinski | 1998: Michelle Kwan | 1999: Maria Butyrskaya | 2000-2001: Michelle Kwan | 2002: Irina Slutskaya | 2003: Michelle Kwan | 2004: Shizuka Arakawa | 2005: Irina Slutskaya | 2006: Kimmie Meissner | 2007: Miki Ando
North American champions in figure skating – Ladies' singles

1923: Theresa Weld | 1925-1927: Beatrix Loughran | 1929-1935: Constance Wilson-Samuel | 1937: Maribel Vinson | 1939-1941: Mary Rose Thacker | 1945-1947: Barbara Ann Scott | 1949: Yvonne Sherman | 1951: Sonya Klopfer | 1953-1955: Tenley Albright | 1957-1959: Carol Heiss | 1961: Laurence Owen | 1963: Wendy Griner | 1965: Petra Burka | 1967: Peggy Fleming | 1969: Janet Lynn | 1971: Karen Magnussen
Canadian champions in figure skating – Ladies' singles

1905: Anne Ewan 1906: Aimee Haycock | 1908: Aimee Haycock | 1910: Iris Mudge | 1911: Lady Evelyn Grey | 1912-1913: Eleanor Kingsford | 1914: Muriel Maunsell | 1920-1921: Jeanne Chevalier | 1922-1923: Dorothy Jenkins | 1924: Constance Wilson-Samuel | 1925-1926: Cecil Smith | 1927: Constance Wilson-Samuel | 1928: Margot Barclay | 1929-1935: Constance Wilson-Samuel | 1936: Eleanor O'Meara | 1937: Dorothy Caley | 1938: Eleanor O'Meara | 1939: Mary Rose Thacker | 1940: Norah McCarthy | 1941-1942: Mary Rose Thacker | 1944-1946: Barbara Ann Scott | 1947: Marilyn Ruth Take | 1948: Barbara Ann Scott | 1949-1951: Suzanne Morrow | 1952: Marlene Smith | 1953-1954: Barbara Gratton | 1955-1957: Carole Jane Pachl | 1958-1959: Margaret Crosland | 1960-1963: Wendy Griner | 1964-1966: Petra Burka | 1967: Valerie Jones | 1968: Karen Magnussen | 1969: Linda Carbonetto | 1970-1973: Karen Magnussen | 1974-1977: Lynn Nightingale | 1978: Heather Kemkaran | 1979: Janet Morrissey | 1980: Heather Kemkaran | 1981: Tracey Wainman | 1982-1984: Kay Thomson | 1985: Elizabeth Manley | 1986: Tracey Wainman | 1987-1988: Elizabeth Manley | 1989: Karen Preston | 1990: Lisa Sargeant | 1991: Josée Chouinard | 1992: Karen Preston | 1993-1994: Josée Chouinard | 1995: Netty Kim | 1996: Jennifer Robinson | 1997: Susan Humphreys | 1998: Angela Derochie | 1999-2003: Jennifer Robinson | 2004: Cynthia Phaneuf | 2005-2007: Joannie Rochette


Preceded by
Roger Jackson & George Hungerford		 Lou Marsh Trophy winner
1965		 Succeeded by
Elaine Tanner
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