Rosi Mittermaier

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Double Olympic Champion Rosi Mittermaier Dies at 72 (FIS Ski)

Mittermaier became a skiing legend in 1975/76 when she won the overall and slalom titles and two Olympic gold medals, one in downhill and one in slalom, and a ...

Rosi was born in Munich on 5 August 1950 and grew up in the heart of Bavaria, in Reit im Winkl, where her parents, who had moved there from the capital city, had a restaurant and a ski school. Mittermaier became a skiing legend in 1975/76 when she won the overall and slalom titles and two Olympic gold medals, one in downhill and one in slalom, and a silver medal in the giant slalom in the 1976 edition. "Rosi" was the focal point of a family of champions; her husband is Christian Neureuther, another legend of those wonderful years, and her son is Felix, who wrote other beautiful pages in the last decade before retiring in March 2019.

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Rosi Mittermaier, Olympic Alpine skiing champion, dies at 72 (Home of the Olympic Channel)

Rosi Mittermaier, who won two golds and a silver in Alpine skiing at the 1976 Winter Olympics, died Wednesday at age 72.

“I had four breaks and it just took a really long time to heal. But the most important thing is also just to get some energy back.” “And I’m not maybe the most patient person, but in the key moments I have it because what are you going to do? But she broke the tibia and fibula bones in her lower right leg a couple months after her then-best result in Cortina. “I love eggs. “The thing that stands out in my mind was just one turn. But that’s the only thing that gives me something back in the sport, because the record talk doesn’t give anything to me except pressure.” “Actually I don’t mind talking about it and I’m not tired of it,” Shiffrin said. Grenier won by a comfortable margin for her first career victory by posting the fastest times in both runs. And today that was the best I could do. “I wouldn’t say it’s something that you just get done,” she said. I still want to go out and do my best skiing every day.

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Olympic skiing champion Rosi Mittermaier dies at 72 (ESPN)

Rosi Mittermaier, who won downhill and slalom gold medals at the 1976 Winter Olympics and narrowly missed a sweep of all three women's Alpine skiing events ...

"For all these reasons, and not only because of her two Olympic gold medals, she will always be remembered as 'Gold-Rosi' by all of us." Mittermaier worked as a TV sports commentator and was well known in Germany for her support of charitable causes. She nearly became the first woman to win three Alpine skiing gold medals at the same Olympics but missed out by .12 seconds to Canada's Kathy Kreiner in the last event, the giant slalom, and took the silver.

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Double Olympic champion Rosi Mittermaier dies aged 72 (Olympics)

IOC President Thomas Bach leads tributes to the downhill and slalom gold medallist from Innsbruck 1976, nicknamed 'Gold-Rosi'.

"Personally, it was a great pleasure for me to experience her warmth and her natural dedication to sport since we got to know each other in 1976. For all these reasons, and not only because of her two Olympic gold medals, she will always be remembered as 'Gold-Rosi' by all of us. She inspired all of us with her warmth and her smile.

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Farewell to Rosi: "Inspiration for millions of people" (ISPO)

The sports world bids farewell to Rosi Mittermaier. She succumbed to cancer on January 4, 2023, at the age of 72. She had a lasting influence on the sports ...

Rosi had a heart as big as a bus, she was always there for everyone - that was unique. "She was not only a great role model as an athlete, but also impressed as a person with her modesty and endearing nature. In the same year she won the German championship for the first time. She started skiing early in her youth, training with the national team for the first time at the age of 14. "With Rosi Mittermaier, the sports world is not only losing an exceptional athlete, but above all a warm, likeable and, for all her fame, down-to-earth personality beyond measure," says Tobias Gröber, Head of ISPO Group. The former professional skier supported the promotion of alpine skiing as well as the promotion of young talent in Germany and throughout the world.

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