Maria Isser

Maria Isser
nation	Austria
birthday	October 22, 1929
place of birth	Matrei am Brenner
date of death	February 25, 2011
Place of death	innsbruck
Career
discipline	Single seater, double seater
society	SV Matrei
Medal table
World championships 2 × 3 × 0 × European championships 5 × 1 × 1 ×
Luge World Championships silver Oslo 1955 Single seater silver Oslo 1955 Two-seater gold Davos 1957 Single seater silver Villard-de-Lans 1959 Single seater gold Garmisch-Partenk. 1960 Single seater  European Luge Championships bronze Igls 1951 Single seater gold Garmisch-Partenk. 1952 Single seater gold Cortina d'Ampezzo 1953 Single seater gold Davos 1954 Single seater gold Davos 1954 Two-seater gold Hahnenklee 1955 Single seater silver Imst 1956 Single seater

Maria Isser-Reschenauer (* 22. October 1929 in Matrei am Brenner , † 25. February 2011 in Innsbruck ) was an Austrian luger . With two world championship titles and five European championship titles, she was the most successful luge athlete of the 1950s .

life and career

The Tyrolean Maria Isser comes from a successful luge and Bobfamilie. Her siblings Josef (* 1926), Paul (* 1928), Heinrich (* 1928), Fritz and Franz Isser (* 1932) were also world-class sledders.

Isser won the bronze medal behind Karla Kienzl and Hilde Sturm in the first European post-war title fights in Igls in 1951 . She won the following four European championships ( 1952 in Garmisch-Partenkirchen , 1953 in Cortina d'Ampezzo , 1954 in Davos and 1955 in Hahnenklee ). In 1956 another silver medal was added in Imst . At the next and her last European Championships in Weissenbach in 1962 , she was twelfth. Maria Isser started not only in a single-seater, but also in a double-seater. She won the gold medal with her brother Josef in 1954. Two years later, the siblings just missed another European Championship medal in fourth place.

At the first Luge World Championships in Oslo in 1955 , Maria Isser again had to admit defeat to Karla Kienzl in the single-seater, and she also won the silver medal with her brother Josef in the double-seater. At the second World Championships in 1957 in Davos on January 27, she won a World Championship gold medal for the first time in a single-seater. After she was only eighth in 1958 , she won second place at the 1959 World Championships in Villard-de-Lans and another title win at the 1960 World Championships in Garmisch-Partenkirchen. In 1962 she was sixth in her last World Cup participation.

Between 1952 and 1963 Isser was Austrian champion five times. She won three times on the natural track (1952, 1957 and 1959) and twice on the artificial track (1958 and 1963).

successes

World championships

• Oslo 1955 : 2nd single-seater, 2nd double-seater (with Josef Isser)
• Davos 1957 : 1st single-seater, 9th double-seater (with Josef Isser)
• Krynica 1958 : 8th single seater
• Villard-de-Lans 1959 : 2nd single seater
• Garmisch-Partenkirchen 1960 : 1st single-seater
• Krynica 1962 : 6th single seater

European championships

• Igls 1951 : 3rd single seater
• Garmisch-Partenkirchen 1952 : 1st single-seater
• Cortina d'Ampezzo 1953 : 1st single-seater, 8th double-seater (with Hans Hauser)
• Davos 1954 : 1st single-seater, 1st double-seater (with Josef Isser)
• Hahnenklee 1955 : 1st single-seater, 9th double-seater (with Josef Isser)
• Imst 1956 : 2nd single-seater, 4th double-seater (with Josef Isser)
• Weißenbach 1962 : 12th single-seater

Austrian championships

• Five-time Austrian single-seater champion (natural track 1952, 1957 and 1959; artificial track 1958 and 1963)

Other successes

• Victory on January 30, 1957 at the »11. Garmisch Winter Sports Week «

literature

• Harald Steyrer, Herbert Wurzer, Egon Theiner: 50 years FIL 1957 - 2007. The history of the International Luge Federation in three volumes. Volume II, Egoth Verlag, Vienna 2007, ISBN 978-3-902480-46-0 , pp. 19-26 and 99-105
• Bodo Harenberg (ed.): The stars of the sport from A-Z . Darmstadt 1970

Web links

• Obituary Maria Isser (1929-2011). News Artificial tobogganing on the website of the Tyrolean Toboggan Association, March 11, 2011

Individual evidence

1. ↑ Information from the Tyrolean Toboggan Association
2. ^ The first world title for Austria . In: Arbeiter-Zeitung . Vienna January 29, 1957, p. 10 ( berufer-zeitung.at - the open online archive - digitized).
3. ^ National champion in natural track tobogganing - Tyrolean winner. ( Memento of the original from March 4, 2016 in the Internet Archive ) 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. Tyrolean Toboggan Association, accessed on March 29, 2011 (PDF, 110 kB) 
4. ^ State champion in artificial track luge. Tyrolean Toboggan Association, accessed on March 29, 2011 (PDF, 90 kB)
5. ↑ Maria Isser wins again . In: Arbeiter-Zeitung . Vienna January 31, 1957, p. 10 ( berufer-zeitung.at - the open online archive - digitized).