Rosi Mittermaier was a German alpine skier, born August 5, 1950, in Munich, who died January 4, 2023. She won gold medals in the slalom and downhill and a silver in the giant slalom at the 1976 Winter Olympics in Innsbruck, a performance regarded at the time as the best ever by a woman in Olympic alpine skiing, despite never having won a downhill race before that Games. She was also the overall World Cup champion in 1976, received the Olympic Order in silver in 1999, and was inducted into the German Sports Hall of Fame in 2006.
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Career HighlightWon two gold medals (downhill and slalom) and one silver (giant slalom) at the 1976 Winter Olympics in Innsbruck. 1 Classification
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Why did Rosi Mittermaier not win all three alpine events at the 1976 Winter Olympics?
She lost the giant slalom by 12 hundredths of a second to Kathy Kreiner.
Mittermaier won the downhill and the slalom at Innsbruck, which left her a chance to equal Toni Sailer and Jean-Claude Killy by sweeping all three alpine events. In the giant slalom she finished second, losing by 12 hundredths of a second to Kathy Kreiner of Canada.
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Rosa Anna Katharina Mittermaier-Neureuther (German: [ˈʁozi ˈmɪtɐˌmaɪ̯ɐ] ; née Mittermaier; 5 August 1950 – 4 January 2023) was a German alpine skier.
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1. Rosi Mittermaier - Wikipedia
Infobox: birth_date
August 5, 1950
Introduction
Rosa Anna Katharina Mittermaier-Neureuther (German: [ˈʁozi ˈmɪtɐˌmaɪ̯ɐ] ; née Mittermaier; 5 August 1950 - 4 January 2023) was a German alpine skier.
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January 4, 2023
Lead paragraph, career summary sentence
She won two gold medals (downhill and slalom) and one silver (giant slalom) at the 1976 Winter Olympics in Innsbruck.
Competed In: 1976 Winter Olympics, lead paragraph, competed-in
She was the overall World Cup champion in 1976 and a double gold medalist at the 1976 Winter Olympics.
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