Lisa Resch

Lisa Resch
nation	German Empire German Empire / German Empire
birthday	4th October 1908
place of birth	Garmisch
date of death	January 31, 1949
Career
discipline	Slalom , downhill , combination
Medal table
World championships 1 × 4 × 3 ×
Alpine World Ski Championships silver St. Moritz 1934 slalom silver St. Moritz 1934 combination bronze St. Moritz 1934 Departure bronze Chamonix 1937 slalom gold Engelberg 1938 Departure silver Engelberg 1938 combination silver Zakopane 1939 Departure bronze Zakopane 1939 combination

Lisa Resch (born October 4, 1908 in Garmisch ; † January 31, 1949 ) was a German ski racer .

Career

Resch came from the Upper Bavarian ski resort Garmisch. In the second half of the 1930s she was the dominant driver behind her teammate Christl Cranz and next to Käthe Grasegger in international competitions. Between 1934 and 1939 she won eight medals at the Alpine World Ski Championships, making her one of the most successful female ski racers of all time. In 1938 she became world champion in the downhill in Engelberg, Switzerland.

At the Olympic Winter Games in 1936 , which were held in her hometown, she was ranked 6th in the combined ranking. In the downhill section, which was included in the ranking, she had initially achieved second place, but the day after she fell back with an eighth place in the slalom.

In 1937 she entered the international Hahnenkamm race in Kitzbühel as the first German in the slalom and combined races . At the SDS races in Grindelwald in 1938 she was second in slalom and third in combination and in 1939 third in slalom.

On January 31, 1949, at the age of 40, she died of a heart attack .

statistics

winter Olympics

• Garmisch-Partenkirchen 1936 : 6th combination

World championships

• Cortina d'Ampezzo 1932 : 14th descent, 23rd combination, 25th slalom
• St. Moritz 1934 : 2nd slalom, 2nd combination, 3rd descent
• Mürren 1935 : 8th descent, 12th combination, 21st slalom
• Chamonix 1937 : 3rd slalom, 6th combination, 9th descent
• Engelberg 1938 : 1st descent, 3rd combination, 4th slalom
• Zakopane 1939 : 2nd descent, 3rd combination, 4th slalom

Web links

• Lisa Resch in the database of the International Ski Federation (English)
• Lisa Resch in the database of Ski-DB (English)
• Lisa Resch in the Sports-Reference database (English; archived from the original )