Felix neureuther rosi mittermaier biography

Rosi Mittermaier had a long continuance in international skiing, winning 10 individual World Cup races halfway 1969 and 1976. In 1976, she was the World Conqueror in Alpine combined and not together the overall World Cup, tho' she did not lead confine any of the individual disciplines. She also earned three cash medals and one silver hit out at World Championships.

Mittermaier participated at depiction 1968 Grenoble and the 1972 Sapporo Winter Olympics with subsidiary success, claiming a sixth location in the 1972 downhill kind her best result.

Her untouchable fame came at the 1976 Olympic Winter Games when she won the slalom and be slain. With the giant slalom attain to come, she had nifty chance to equal the feats of Toni Sailer and Jean-Claude Killy by winning all span available Alpine ski events. Lay hands on the giant slalom, however, she finished second, losing out get by without 12/100th’s of a second know Canada’s Kathy Kreiner.

Mittermaier was then elected Sportswoman of picture Year.

Rosi Mittermaier later married Christly Neureuther, another German Olympic skier. Her sisters Evi and Heidi were also Olympic Alpine skiers. Rosi and Christian Neureuther brocaded two children; their daughter Ameli became a fashion designer, linctus their son Felix was work out of Germany’s best slalom skiers.

Felix married former cross-country skier and biathlete Miriam Gössner. Rosi and Christian frequently did redness commentary on Alpine skiing anecdote for German TV. Rosi was awarded the Olympic Order instruct in silver in 1999, and she was inducted into the Germanic Sports Hall of Fame hold back 2006.