Matous, whose parents emigrated to Italy from Czechoslovakia , started for Italy until 1972. During this time she became Italian champion five times . From 1972/1973 Matous competed for three years for San Marino . She won points in the World Cup for the first time in March 1973 in the Japanese Naeba Ski Resort and won the overall and slalom rankings of the European Cup in the 1973/74 season . In 1974 she took part in her strongest discipline at the time, slalom, in the World Championship in St. Moritz , where she finished 31st. From 1975/1976 Matous started for Iran . Increasingly, she now achieved her best performances in the downhill. In addition to numerous top 10 placements in World Cup races (19 in total), she achieved the only World Cup podium of her career on December 15, 1976, second behind Annemarie Moser-Pröll in the descent of her home town of Cortina d'Ampezzo. In the Downhill World Cup of the 1976/1977 season she was eighth. Participation for Iran in the 1978 World Cup in Garmisch-Partenkirchen was forbidden by the International Ski Federation FIS . Two days before the World Cup departure, she was banned from starting because she did not have an Iranian passport and could not prove that she had lived in Iran for several years. After the political changes in Iran, Matous joined the Luxembourg Ski Federation in the 1979/1980 season . She won her last World Cup points in January 1980 on the downhill from Pfronten . Matous was married to the ski racer Fausto Radici , who died in 2002 .
Italy San Marino Iran Luxembourg
