Beatrix Schuba

Trixi Schuba
Beatrix Schuba in 2011
Personal information
Country represented	Austria
Born	(1951-04-15) 15 April 1951 (age 65)
Height	5 ft 7 in (170 cm)
Former coach	Helmut Seibt Leopold Linhart
Skating club	Wien
Retired	1973
Medal record Ladies' Figure skating Representing  Austria Olympic Games 1972 Sapporo Ladies' singles World Championships 1972 Calgary Ladies' singles 1971 Lyon Ladies' singles 1970 Ljubljana Ladies' singles 1969 Colorado Springs Ladies' singles European Championships 1972 Gothenburg Ladies' singles 1971 Zürich Ladies' singles 1970 Leningrad Ladies' singles 1969 Garmisch-Partenkirchen Ladies' singles 1968 Västerås Ladies' singles

Beatrix "Trixi" Schuba (born 15 April 1951) is an Austrian former competitive figure skater who competed in ladies' singles. She is a six-time Austrian national champion (1967–1972), a two-time European champion (1971 and 1972), a two-time World champion (1971 and 1972), and 1972 Olympic champion.

She is considered to be one of the best compulsory figure skaters ever.

Schuba was born in Vienna. After her father died when she was thirteen, she went to trade school and eventually took over the bookkeeping of her family's lumber business in Vienna; mornings were given to skating and afternoons to work.

Schuba's interest in figure skating began as a young child in 1955 when she happened to see an American competition on the television bought by her parents to watch performances of the Vienna State Opera and the Burgtheater. She was coached by Helmut Seibt from 1955 to 1962, and then by Leopold Linhart.

Her first major success was winning the ladies' singles portion of the Austrian Championships at the age of sixteen in 1967; she would go on to defend her title five straight times. Schuba steadily improved throughout the end of the 1960s and the early 1970s, placing in the top five several times and eventually taking first twice each at the European Championships and the World Championships in 1971 and 1972.