 Kurt Mrkwicka in 1962 | ||||||||||||
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| Born | 16 July 1937 Vienna, Austria | |||||||||||
| Height | 1.79 m (5 ft 10 in) | |||||||||||
| Weight | 74 kg (163 lb) | |||||||||||
| Sport | ||||||||||||
| Sport | Diving | |||||||||||
| Club | Schwimm-Union Wien | |||||||||||
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Kurt Mrkwicka (born 16 July 1937) is a retired Austrian diver. Mrkwicka competed in the 10 m platform and 3 m springboard events at the 1960 and 1964 Summer Olympics with the best achievement of ninth place on the platform in 1960. [1] He won the springboard competition at the 1962 European Aquatics Championships.
After retiring from diving, in 1967 he established MR Film, a Vienna-based company that by 2013 had produced over 500 films. [2] [3] He is also a member of the supervisory panel of the therapeutic horse riding center Xenophon. [4]
In 1983 and 1984 Kurt Mrkwicka produced the television series Waldheimat based on Peter Rossegger's [5] [6] famous autobiographical book from 1877. [5]
