About Josephine Sticker
Lived 1894 – 1963 (aged 69). Josephine Sticker was an Austrian swimmer.
Josephine "Fini" Sticker (July 7, 1894 – September 10, 1963) was an Austrian freestyle swimmer, born in Vienna, who competed in the 1912 Summer Olympics.
Sticker was born July 7, 1894 into a Jewish family in Vienna, Austria-Hungary, and swam for the Wien Club in Viena, known officially as Damenschwimmklub. Sticker won the bronze medal in the 4×100 m freestyle relay event on July 15, 1912 becoming one of the first Austrian women to win an Olympic medal. Sticker swam the third leg of the relay with her teammates Margarete Adler, Klara Milch and Berta Zahourek. Both Adler and Milch were also considered by a few sources to be of the Jewish faith. The team from Great Britain took the gold medal with a combined time of 5:52.8, and the German team took the Silver with a combined time of 6:04.6.
Sticker died at 69 on September 10, 1963 in Vienna, Austria.
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Who was Josephine Sticker?
Austrian swimmer (1894-1960)
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Josephine Sticker was born on 7 July 1894 in Vienna.
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Josephine Sticker died on 10 September 1963.
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Josephine Sticker was a swimmer.
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Josephine Sticker was Austrian.
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