Dagmar Rome

Dagmar Rome
nation	Austria
birthday	16th June 1928 (age 92)
place of birth	Innsbruck , Austria
Career
discipline	Slalom , giant slalom , downhill , combination
society	SK Seegrube
status	resigned
End of career	1955
Medal table
Olympic games 0 × 1 × 0 × World championships 2 × 1 × 0 ×
winter Olympics silver Oslo 1952 Giant slalom  Alpine World Ski Championships gold Aspen 1950 slalom gold Aspen 1950 Giant slalom silver Oslo 1952 Giant slalom

Dagmar Rom (born June 16, 1928 in Innsbruck ) is a former Austrian ski racer . She became world champion in slalom and giant slalom in 1950 .

Career

Rome started skiing at the age of three. She won her first races as a child, and was able to assert herself against boys of the same age. During the Second World War , however, there were fewer and fewer opportunities for skiing, which is why she initially concentrated on her school education and successfully graduated .

After the war she quickly belonged to the top of Austria and celebrated her first successes in the winter of 1946/47: In Davos she won slalom, downhill and combined (became "Academic World Champion"), and came second in the Madloch downhill run from Lech and Austria Champion in downhill skiing. In 1947/48 she finished second in the slalom in Lech and third in the slalom in Sölden and Zell am See , qualifying for the 1948 Winter Olympics in St. Moritz . There, however, she had a hard fall in downhill training and suffered a torn ligament, whereupon she had to end the season prematurely. The next winter she found her way back to her old form, made two podium places at the Arlberg-Kandahar races in St. Anton and won the downhill from Seefeld .

In the winter of 1949/50, Rome first won the St. Anton slalom and came second in the Lech slalom. The then 21-year-old celebrated her greatest successes at the 1950 World Championships in Aspen : she won gold in both slalom and giant slalom and became double world champion. In doing so, she played a decisive role in the six medals awarded by Austrian ski women. In the subsequent North American races she was able to win the slalom twice, twice the combination and once the downhill at the US and Canadian championships in Banff . Due to her great success at the World Cup, she was named Austria's Sportswoman of the Year at the end of the year .

However, the following winter Rome did not contest international races. She opened a sports shop in Seefeld with her then partner Egon Schöpf . Her high popularity also earned her a leading role in Harald Reinl's film Nacht am Mont Blanc at the side of Dietmar Schönherr and Oskar Sima . Despite her one year break from competition, she won two slalom and giant slalom victories at the Austrian Championships in 1952 , which enabled her to take part in the Olympic Games in Oslo . Before that, there were still questions about their amateur status, but this was probably clarified by the FIS at a meeting in Bern in mid-January 1952, according to which there should be no improper use of photos of racers for advertising purposes. Initially, her world title was used for her film, but then it was pasted over and an international committee was set up to check whether Rome had violated the amateur regulations. At the games she surprisingly won the silver medal in the giant slalom behind the American Andrea Mead-Lawrence and in the downhill she achieved a respectable fifth place.

Immediately after the games, Rome married the journalist Günter Peis and had their first child that same year. Therefore, she did not take part in any races in the next two years. In the winter of 1954/55, she tried a comeback and at least achieved sixth place in the slalom in Kitzbühel. After she became a mother for the second time in 1955, Rome finally ended her sporting career. In 1963, Dagmar Rom and her son Mario took on the leading roles in the television series Mario .

Sporting successes

winter Olympics

• Oslo 1952 : 2nd giant slalom, 5th downhill, 36th slalom

World championships

• Aspen 1950 : 1st slalom, 1st giant slalom, 9th descent
• Oslo 1952 : 2nd giant slalom, 5th downhill, 36th slalom

Austrian championships

• Three-time Austrian champion (downhill 1947 , slalom and giant slalom 1952 )

Awards

• Austria's sportswoman of the year 1950

literature

• Austrian Ski Association (Ed.): Austrian Ski Stars from A – Z , Innsbruck 2008, ISBN 978-3-9502285-7-1 , p. 360f

Web links

• Dagmar Rom in the database of the International Ski Federation (English)
• Dagmar Rom in the database of Ski-DB (English)
• Dagmar Rom in the database of Sports-Reference (English; archived from the original )
• Dagmar Rom in the Internet Movie Database (English)

Individual evidence

1. ↑ "I would have preferred checks" . In: Arbeiter-Zeitung . Vienna November 27, 1973, p. 16 ( Arbeiter-zeitung.at - the open online archive - digitized).
2. ^ Dagmar Rom out of action . In: Arbeiter-Zeitung . Vienna February 1, 1948, p. 5 ( Arbeiter-zeitung.at - the open online archive - digitized).
3. ↑ «Ski training on new paths» . In: Arbeiter-Zeitung . Vienna December 12, 1951, p. 8 ( berufer-zeitung.at - the open online archive - digitized).
4. ↑ Column 1: "No difficulties for Dagmar Rome" . In: Arbeiter-Zeitung . Vienna January 16, 1952, p. 8 ( berufer-zeitung.at - the open online archive - digitized).
5. ↑ «I would have preferred checks»; Subtitle: «Mario the Bard» . In: Arbeiter-Zeitung . Vienna November 27, 1973, p. 16 ( Arbeiter-zeitung.at - the open online archive - digitized).