Anny Rüegg

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Anny Rüegg Alpine skiing
nation SwitzerlandSwitzerland Switzerland
birthday 1912
date of death May 1, 2011
Place of death Zurich
Career
discipline Downhill , slalom , combination
society SDS Chur / SDS Zurich
Medal table
World championships 2 × gold 1 × silver 2 × bronze
FIS Alpine World Ski Championships
gold St. Moritz 1934 Departure
bronze St. Moritz 1934 combination
gold Murren 1935 slalom
silver Murren 1935 combination
bronze Murren 1935 Departure
 

Anny Rüegg , married Hardmeier (* 1912 ; † May 1, 2011 in Zurich ) was a Swiss ski racer . She became world champion twice and celebrated several victories in important international races.

Career

Rüegg occupied in 1933 in Innsbruck in their first participation in a World Cup (then as FIS races called) each ranked 20th in the downhill and the combined and ranked 25th in the slalom . At the Arlberg-Kandahar races in Mürren , she already achieved third place in slalom and fifth in combination. Starting next winter, Rüegg was among the absolute best in the world with numerous victories and podium places in important international competitions. In 1934 she was second in the downhill at the Arlberg-Kandahar races in St. Anton am Arlberg , third in the slalom and thus second behind Jeanette Kessler in the combination. In Grindelwald she achieved first place in downhill and combined as well as second in slalom at the SDS races of the Swiss women's ski club , to which Rüegg belonged. She achieved her greatest success of the winter at the 1934 World Championships in St. Moritz , when she won the downhill ahead of the two Germans Christl Cranz and Lisa Resch and, with 18th place in the slalom, was also third in the combination behind Cranz and Resch.

Rüegg won a second World Championship title the next year at the World Championship in Mürren in 1935: With a clear best time in the second round, she ousted half-time leader Christl Cranz to second place and became world champion in the slalom. In addition, she was third in the downhill and thus second behind Cranz in the combination. In the Arlberg Kandahar and SDS races in 1935 she was successful again: At the SDS races in Grindelwald she was first in slalom and second in downhill and combined and in the AK races in Mürren she won downhill, slalom and Combination. Rüegg also won the Grand Prix of Megève and the Austrian Championships in all three disciplines , making her Austrian champion in 1935. She also won the Parsenn Derby that year and set the fastest time in the slalom of the Swiss championships, for which a challenge prize was awarded at the time, but not yet an official championship title.

In the winter of 1936, Rüegg again achieved victory in the slalom and second place in the downhill at the SDS races, which this time also won the combination. Thanks to her excellent performance, Rüegg was also one of the medal contenders at the 1936 Winter Olympics in Garmisch-Partenkirchen . In Garmisch, however, she had a serious crash on February 4, three days before the start of the alpine races, in the last training run of the day. She crashed into a tree and sustained injuries in her left knee that ultimately marked the end of her career. After 1936, Rüegg only took part in a few competitions, such as the Swiss Championships in 1942. She was married to Willy Hardmeier from Zurich, who was also a skier and achieved several top placings in Swiss championships.

successes

World championships

More Achievements

Arlberg-Kandahar race :

  • 1933: 3rd slalom, 5th combination
  • 1934: 2nd descent, 3rd slalom, 2nd combination
  • 1935: 1st descent, 1st slalom, 1st combination

SDS races :

  • 1934: 1st descent, 2nd slalom, 1st combination
  • 1935: 2nd descent, 1st slalom, 2nd combination
  • 1936: 2nd descent, 1st slalom, 1st combination

Further:

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ a b Burials and funerals in the week from Wednesday, May 25th to Tuesday, May 31st, 2011.  ( Page no longer available , search in web archives )  Info: The link was automatically marked as defective. Please check the link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. Tagblatt der Stadt Zürich , June 1, 2011, p. 51.@1@ 2Template: Toter Link / epaper2.tagblattzuerich.ch  
  2. ^ A. Hochholdinger: FIS race in Innsbruck from February 6th to 13th, 1933. In: Yearbook of the Swiss Ski Association. Volume XXIX, 1933. pp. 171-179.
  3. ↑ a b c Hermann Nussbaumer: Victory on white slopes. Balance of alpine skiing. 9th expanded edition, Trauner Verlag, Linz 1977, ISBN 3-85320-176-8 , leaflet 4 (without page number).
  4. ↑ a b c Hermann Nussbaumer: Victory on white slopes. Balance of alpine skiing. 9th expanded edition, Trauner Verlag, Linz 1977, ISBN 3-85320-176-8 , leaflet 6 (without page number).
  5. ↑ Results of the 1934 World Cup at www.alpineskiing-worldchampionships.com/1934.htm, accessed on November 10, 2010 (web link no longer available).
  6. ↑ Hans Stuber: FIS races for downhill and slalom in Mürren. In: Yearbook of the Swiss Ski Association. Volume XXXI, 1935. pp. 163-167.
  7. ↑ Annual report of the foreign delegation. In: Yearbook of the Swiss Ski Association. Volume XXXI, 1935. p. 138.
  8. ↑ 29. Big Switzerland. Ski races in Grindelwald. In: Yearbook of the Swiss Ski Association. Volume XXXI, 1935. p. 151.
  9. ^ Hans Stuber: IV. Olympic Winter Games in Garmisch-Partenkirchen. In: Yearbook of the Swiss Ski Association. Volume XXXII, 1936. pp. 163-164.
  10. ↑ 36th Swiss ski race in Grindelwald. In: Yearbook of the Swiss Ski Association. Volume XXXVIII, 1942. p. 43.
  11. ↑ See the results of the Swiss Ski Championships from 1938 in the yearbooks of the Swiss Ski Association.
personal data
SURNAME Rüegg, Anny
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Hardmeier, Anny
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Swiss ski racer
DATE OF BIRTH 1912
DATE OF DEATH May 1, 2011
Place of death Zurich , Switzerland