Annemarie Hess-Waser

Career
Annemarie Hess-Waser
nation	Switzerland Switzerland
birthday	4th February 1940 (age 80)
place of birth	Oberrickenbach , Switzerland
status	resigned
End of career	1960

Annemarie Hess-Waser (born February 4, 1940 in Oberrickenbach ) is a former Swiss ski racer.

Life

Annemarie Hess-Waser grew up with 16 siblings in the Bergheimet Schmidsboden in Oberrickenbach in the canton of Nidwalden . In 1961, a year after her resignation, she married. Two of her daughters became ski racers. Annemarie Hess-Waser is the aunt of Erika Hess , who dominated alpine skiing in the 1980s. Annemarie and Erika were both members of the Ski Club Bannalp (today Ski Club Bannalp-Wolfenschiessen).

Career

Anne Marie Hess-Waser came with 14 years in the Swiss ski - National and participated in her first international race with 15 years. The Swiss ski racer Ida Schöpfer-Bieri was her great role model.

On February 3, 1958, one day before her 18th birthday, she won the bronze medal in slalom at the World Ski Championships in Bad-Gastein (behind Inger Bjørnbakken from Norway and Josefa Frandel from Austria). Five days later she was 4th in the giant slalom . Because she fell on the descent , she missed a safe medal in the alpine combination . She won a total of five FIS races (comparable to today's World Cup races), including the Hahnenkamm Slalom in Kitzbühel on January 18, 1959 .

In 1958 and 1960 she led the FIS annual list (comparable to today's annual discipline ranking) in slalom. She was also the Swiss slalom champion in 1959 and 1960. She took part in the 1956 Winter Olympics in Cortina d'Ampezzo and the 1960 Winter Olympics in Squaw Valley . In the late 1950s and early 1960s she was considered one of the world's best slalom riders. In 1960 she ended her career at the age of 20.

Web links

Annemarie Hess-Waser in the database of the International Ski Association (English)
For the 75th birthday of ski racer Annemarie Waser-Hess (source: Swiss radio and television )

credentials

↑ Homepage Skiclub Bannalp-Wolfenschiessen. In: scbw.ch. Accessed April 30, 2020 .
^ Franz Hess: 60 years ago Annemarie Hess-Waser won bronze at the World Championships. In: Ski Club Bannalp-Wolfenschiessen. Accessed April 30, 2020 .
↑ Florian Pfister and Franz Hess: The Nidwalden Hahnenkamm winner. In: luzernerzeitung.ch. February 6, 2020, accessed April 30, 2020 .
↑ Annemarie Waser Bio, Stats, and Results. Accessed April 30, 2020 (English).
↑ Stephan Hildebrand and Miriam Bosch: Ski legend Annemarie Hess-Waser: "We were still free then". In: srf.ch. January 13, 2014, accessed April 30, 2020 .

personal data
SURNAME	Hess-Waser, Annemarie
BRIEF DESCRIPTION	Swiss ski racer
DATE OF BIRTH	4th February 1940
PLACE OF BIRTH	Oberrickenbach

[1] Homepage Skiclub Bannalp-Wolfenschiessen. In: scbw.ch. Accessed April 30, 2020 .

[2] Franz Hess: 60 years ago Annemarie Hess-Waser won bronze at the World Championships. In: Ski Club Bannalp-Wolfenschiessen. Accessed April 30, 2020 .

[3] Florian Pfister and Franz Hess: The Nidwalden Hahnenkamm winner. In: luzernerzeitung.ch. February 6, 2020, accessed April 30, 2020 .

[4] Annemarie Waser Bio, Stats, and Results. Accessed April 30, 2020 (English).

[5] Stephan Hildebrand and Miriam Bosch: Ski legend Annemarie Hess-Waser: "We were still free then". In: srf.ch. January 13, 2014, accessed April 30, 2020 .