Boeckl, Wilhelm Richard

LC control no.	n 97874138
Descriptive conventions	rda
Personal name heading	Boeckl, Wilhelm Richard *Browse this term in* LC Authorities or the LC Catalog
Variant(s)	Boeckl, Willy Böckl, Willy
Associated country	Austria United States
Associated place	New York (N.Y.)
Birth date	1893-01-27
Death date	1975-04-22
Field of activity	Figure skating Figure skating--Coaching
Affiliation	American Skaters Guild Professional Skaters Guild of America
Profession or occupation	Figure skaters Figure skating coaches
Special note	Data contributed by the Dance Heritage Coalition for the New York Public Library Dance Collection.
Found in	NYPL Dict. Cat. of the Dance Coll., 1974- Willy Boeckl on figure skating, 1937: title-page (by Wilhelm Richard Boeckl; Willy Boeckl; World's champion 1925-26-27-28, European champion 1922-23-25-26-27-28) page v (Willy R. Boeckl, Esq., The Skating Club, New York, N.Y.) page x (introduction signed: Willy Boeckl) Wikipedia, viewed December 19, 2019 (access point: Willy Böckl; 27 January 1893--22 April 1975); Austrian figure skater. He won the World Figure Skating Championships four times and captured two silver medals at the Winter Olympics. After retiring from skating, he moved to the United States and became a coach. In 1938, Willy Boeckl (the spelling was changed sometime after he arrived in the United States) was one of thirteen prominent figure skating instructors from the United States and Canada, who met in Lake Placid, New York for the purpose of forming an association of figure skating instructors. This distinguished group became known as the American Skaters Guild (the name was later changed to the Professional Skaters Guild of America in 1950, and again [1995] to the current name of the Professional Skaters Association). Willy became the first president of the guild) <https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Willy_B%C3%B6ckl>
Associated language	eng