Antoinette Meyer

Antoinette Meyer
nation	Switzerland
birthday	June 19, 1920
place of birth	Hospental
date of death	July 19, 2010
Place of death	Tuna
Career
discipline	Slalom , downhill
society	SDS Hospental
End of career	1948
Medal table
Olympic games 0 × 1 × 0 × World championships 0 × 1 × 0 ×
winter Olympics silver St. Moritz 1948 slalom  Alpine World Ski Championships silver St. Moritz 1948 slalom

Antoinette Josefa Clara Meyer (born June 19, 1920 in Hospental ; † July 19, 2010 in Thun ; married Molitor-Meyer ) was a Swiss ski racer . Her greatest success was winning a silver medal at the 1948 Winter Olympics . She was the wife of Karl Molitor .

biography

Meyer grew up with two siblings in Hospental in the canton of Uri , where her parents ran the Hotel Meyerhof. After three years of primary school in Hospental, she attended the girls' boarding school in Ingenbohl near Schwyz . In order to perfect her knowledge of French, she spent three years at the girls' boarding school in Châtel-Saint-Denis . Finally she went to an institute in Varese for two years to learn Italian. Meyer also spoke English and worked in his parents' hotel each summer. This was closed in winter, so you had a lot of time for slalom training.

The Swiss ski federation offered Meyer in 1942 because of their good performance at a training course in Davos , where she her future husband, the skier Karl Molitor met. Meyer was accepted into the national team and won a total of four Swiss championship titles in downhill, slalom and combined from 1943 to 1945 . In 1944 she took part in a Swedish-Swiss ski meeting in Östersund . In 1947 they traveled with a delegation to the USA to compete in numerous races and also to advertise Switzerland as a tourist destination. At the 1948 Winter Olympics , which took place in St. Moritz , Meyer won the silver medal in the slalom, half a second behind the American Gretchen Fraser . The alpine ski races were also rated as world championships, which is why they also received a World Championship silver medal.

With this success, Meyer ended her skiing career. On November 24, 1948, she married Karl Molitor and then moved to Wengen , where she lived for the next six decades. A son was born in 1950. Together with her in-laws and her husband, Meyer ran a sports shop, which also had a branch in Interlaken . Her area of ​​responsibility included purchasing ski fashion items in particular. In 1987 the couple handed over the sports business to their son and daughter-in-law. Meyer played golf in her spare time and also skied until 2007. She died at the age of 90 in a nursing home in Thun.

successes

• Olympic Winter Games 1948 : 2nd slalom, 11th descent
• Four Swiss championship titles (Downhill 1943, Slalom 1944 and 1945, Combination 1945)

Web links

• Antoinette Meyer in the database of Ski-DB (English)
• Antoinette Meyer in the Sports-Reference database (English; archived from the original )
• Photo at Molitor Sport

Individual evidence

1. ↑ ^{a b c} Antoinette Molitor-Meyer (1920–2010). (No longer available online.) Jungfrau Zeitung , 2010, archived from the original on January 1, 2013 ; Retrieved September 10, 2011 . Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice.