Alma Staudinger

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Alma Staudinger Diving
Personal information
Nationality: AustriaAustria Austria
Discipline (s) : Art and high diving
Society: Swimming Union Vienna (SUW)
Birthday: August 19, 1921
Place of birth: Vienna
Date of death: October 10, 2017
Medals

Alma "Ali" Staudinger , born as Alma Franziska Pascher (born August 19, 1921 in Vienna ; † October 10, 2017 ), was an Austrian diver . She was multiple Austrian champion , vice - European champion and two-time Olympic participant in the disciplines of art and high diving .

Athletic career

Alma Pascher took part in the 1936 Summer Olympics in Berlin as a water diver at the age of 14 . There she was the second youngest among the 16 participants in the jumping competitions after the only 13-year-old American gold medal winner Marjorie Gestring . In artificial jumping from the 3-meter board, she was twelfth in Berlin and was ranked 21st in high diving.

It started in 1945 for the newly founded swimming club Schwimm-Union Wien (SUW). At the European Swimming Championships in Monte Carlo in 1947 , she was vice European champion in jumping from the 3-meter board. In addition, she won the bronze medal in diving from the 10-meter board.

At the 1948 Summer Olympics in London , Alma Pascher-Staudinger narrowly missed the medal ranks as fourth in high diving. In jumping she took eleventh place. Two years later she was runner-up in the European Swimming Championships in Vienna in 1950 in diving from the 10-meter board.

Media response

Like many successful top athletes of their time, Alma Pascher-Staudinger was a popular motif of the Austrian sports photographer Lothar Rübelt (1901–1990) during her training and competition jumps , whose works are now in museums and collections and are sold at high prices at auctions. 19 of his photos of Alma Staudinger from 1948 to 1950 are now part of the photo collection of the Austrian National Library and are available online. One of these photos shows her during an interview with a sports reporter for Radio Rot-Weiß-Rot at the Vienna Autumn Fair in 1948 together with the foil fencer Ellen Preis .

Personal

Alma Staudinger was the second wife of water diver Josef "Sepp" Staudinger (1906-1998), who in 1931, like his first wife Madi Epply, had become European diving champion in 1931 .

At the end of the 1940s, Alma Staudinger appeared under her married name Pascher-Staudinger ; in the results lists of this period she is often listed as Ali Pascher-Staudinger . No information is available about her life after the end of her sporting career.

Alma Staudinger died on October 10, 2017 at the age of 96. She found her final resting place on October 23, 2017 in the family grave of the Staudinger family in the Hernalser Friedhof (group B, number 84).

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Alma STAUDINGER - Olympic Diving - Austria. In: olympic.org. June 16, 2016, accessed February 22, 2020 .
  2. ^ European Swimming Championships (Women). In: gbrathletics.com. Retrieved February 22, 2020 .
  3. ^ Ali Pascher-Staudinger. Image archive of the Austrian National Library, accessed on February 22, 2020 (photos by Alma Staudinger (keyword: “Ali Pascher-Staudinger”)).
  4. ^ Austrian National Library - Journalism. In: bildarchivaustria.at. September 8, 1948, accessed February 22, 2020 .
  5. ↑ Alma Staudinger Bio, Stats, and Results. In: sports-reference.com. Retrieved February 22, 2020 (English).
personal data
SURNAME Staudinger, Alma
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Pascher-Staudinger, Alma (married name); Pascher, Alma Franziska (maiden name); Staudinger, Ali (nickname)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Austrian water diver
DATE OF BIRTH August 19, 1921
PLACE OF BIRTH Vienna
DATE OF DEATH October 10, 2017