# Josephine Sticker

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{{short description|Austrian swimmer}}
{{Infobox swimmer
| name           = Josephine Sticker
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| nickname       = "Fini"
| national_team  = Austria
| birth_date     = {{Birth date|1894|7|7}}
| birth_place    = [Vienna](/source/Vienna), Austria-Hungary
| death_date     = {{Death date and age|1963|9|10|1894|7|7}}
| death_place    = Vienna, Austria
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| strokes        = [Freestyle](/source/Freestyle_swimming)
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| club           = Wien Club, Vienna
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| coach          = [Otto Scheff](/source/Otto_Scheff) (1912 Olympics)
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{{MedalCountry | {{flagIOC|AUT|1912 Summer}} }}
{{MedalCompetition  | [Olympic Games](/source/Swimming_at_the_Summer_Olympics)}}
{{MedalBronze| [1912 Stockholm](/source/1912_Summer_Olympics) | [4×100 m freestyle](/source/Swimming_at_the_1912_Summer_Olympics_%E2%80%93_Women's_4_%C3%97_100_metre_freestyle_relay)}}
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'''Josephine "Fini" Sticker''' (July 7, 1894 &ndash; September 10, 1963) was an Austrian [freestyle](/source/freestyle_swimming) [swimmer](/source/swimmer), born in [Vienna](/source/Vienna), who competed in the [1912 Summer Olympics](/source/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.<ref name=Olympedia/>

== 1912 Stockholm Olympics ==
The 1912 Olympics were the first Olympics where woman were allowed to compete. The Austrian women's team were trained for the 1912 Olympics by attorney and former swimmer [Otto Scheff](/source/Otto_Scheff), a 1907 World Champion, and holder of a bronze medal in the 1908 London Olympics.<ref name=OBL>{{cite web|url=https://www.biographien.ac.at/oebl/oebl_A/Adler_Margarete_1896_1990.xml|title=Austrian Centre for Digital Humanities, Austrian Biographical Dictionary, Adler, Margarete|website=www.giographien.ac.at|access-date=August 23, 2025}}</ref> Sticker won the bronze medal in the [4×100 m freestyle](/source/Swimming_at_the_1912_Summer_Olympics_%E2%80%93_Women's_4_%C3%97_100_metre_freestyle_relay) relay event on July 15, 1912 becoming one of the first [Austria](/source/Austria)n women to win an Olympic medal.   Sticker swam the third leg of the relay with her teammates [Margarete Adler](/source/Margarete_Adler), [Klara Milch](/source/Klara_Milch) and [Berta Zahourek](/source/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.<ref name=Olympedia/><ref name=JIS/>  

Sticker also participated in the [100 metre freestyle competition](/source/Swimming_at_the_1912_Summer_Olympics_%E2%80%93_Women's_100_metre_freestyle), swimming a time of 1:31.8 finishing fourth in the third preliminary heat and did not advance to the semi-finals.  Australian Fanny Durack took the gold with a 1:22.2, and Australian Mina Wylie took the silver with a time of 1:25.4.<ref name=Olympedia>{{cite web|url=https://www.olympedia.org/athletes/45357 |title=Josephine Sticker |work=Olympedia |access-date=8 June 2021}}</ref><ref name=JIS>{{cite web|url=https://www.jewsinsports.org/olympics_profile_ID_204.html|title=Encyclopedia of Jews in Sports, (Bloch Publishing 1965)|website=www.jewsinsports.org|access-date=August 22, 2025}}</ref>

Sticker died at 69 on September 10, 1963 in Vienna, Austria.<ref name=Olympedia/>

==See also==
*[List of select Jewish swimmers](/source/List_of_Jews_in_sports)

==References==
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==External links==
*[http://www.jewsinsports.org/olympics.asp?ID=204 Profile] at jewsinsports.org
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Category:1894 births
Category:1963 deaths
Category:Swimmers from Vienna
Category:Austrian female freestyle swimmers
Category:Olympic swimmers for Austria
Category:Swimmers at the 1912 Summer Olympics
Category:Olympic bronze medalists for Austria
Category:Olympic bronze medalists in swimming
Category:Medalists at the 1912 Summer Olympics
Category:Austrian Jews
Category:Jewish swimmers

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