Erna Steuri

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Erna Steuri Alpine skiing
nation SwitzerlandSwitzerland Switzerland
birthday April 22, 1917
place of birth Grindelwald
date of death November 25, 2001
Place of death Grindelwald
Career
discipline Slalom , downhill , combination
society SDS Grindelwald
Medal table
World championships 0 × gold 0 × silver 1 × bronze
FIS Alpine World Ski Championships
bronze Engelberg 1938 slalom
 

Erna Steuri (born April 22, 1917 in Grindelwald ; † November 25, 2001 there ) was a Swiss ski racer . She scored several victories in important international races in the second half of the 1930s and won the bronze medal in slalom at the 1938 World Championship .

Career

Erna Steuri achieved her first major successes in 1935 at the SDS race in Grindelwald, when she was the winner of the downhill and the combined as well as second in the slalom. She was the first and only local to win this race of the Swiss Women's Ski Club , which was held for the first time in 1932 and integrated into the World Cup in 1967 . The next year she took part in the 1936 Winter Olympics in Garmisch-Partenkirchen and achieved fourth place in the combination with third place in the slalom and fourth place in the downhill - only in this Olympic medals were awarded. Two weeks later she was fifth in slalom and combination and sixth in downhill at the World Championships in Innsbruck . In addition, in 1936 she came second behind Gratia Schimmelpenninck in the downhill run of the Arlberg-Kandahar race in St. Anton am Arlberg . In the next year Erna Steuri decided the departure of the Arlberg-Kandahar race in Mürren ahead of the German Christl Cranz . In slalom and combined she was second behind Cranz. Before that, she had already won the downhill, the slalom and the combination of the 1937 British Open Ski Championships held in Grindelwald . At the 31st Swiss Ski Race in Les Diablerets in 1937 , Steuri won the junior downhill run and came third in the slalom. At the World Championships in Chamonix in 1937 , she achieved two fifth places in the downhill and the combination and eighth in the slalom, similar results to the previous year. She again took two fifth places in downhill and combined at the 1938 World Championships in Engelberg . In the slalom, however, she achieved third place behind Christl Cranz and her Swiss compatriot Nini von Arx-Zogg , with which she won her only World Championship medal. At the 32nd Swiss Ski Race in Wengen in 1938 , Steuri was second behind Cranz in the downhill and slalom of Seniors I and third in the combination. In March 1938 she won a three-day downhill meeting in Sestriere and in early April the downhill and slalom of the international races in Abetone .

Erna Steuri also achieved numerous victories in 1939. At the 33rd Swiss Ski Race in Unterwasser , she became champion in downhill, slalom and alpine combination. She was also successful that year in two competitions in the United States - the Harriman Cup in Sun Valley and the US Championships at Mount Hood near Portland in Oregon - to which the Swiss women's ski team was invited. At the Harriman Cup on March 25th and 26th, Steuri won ahead of her compatriot Nini von Arx-Zogg in the downhill, the slalom and the combination. A week later, she won the slalom and combination at the US Open Class Championships. In the downhill she came in second behind Elizabeth Woolsey . At the 1939 World Championships in Zakopane , however, she only finished tenth in the slalom. In the downhill - and thus also in the combined classification - she was eliminated. In 1940 Steuri was the Swiss downhill champion in Gstaad and the Parsenn derby in Davos .

Then Erna Steuri announced her retirement from ski racing. Until 1948 she was in charge of the children's group at the Grindelwald Ski School, which had been set up eight years earlier, but despite her resignation she still took part in individual competitions. At the 36th Swiss Ski Race in 1942 in her home town of Grindelwald, she won the Senior I Downhill, but was beaten by six seconds in the championship by junior Hedy Schlunegger . In the slalom she was also second behind Verena Fuchs .

successes

winter Olympics

World championships

More Achievements

  • Victory in downhill and combination of the SDS races in 1935
  • Victory in the downhill of the Arlberg-Kandahar race in 1937
  • Victory in downhill, slalom and combined at the British Open Ski Championships 1937
  • Swiss champion in downhill, slalom and combined in 1939
  • Victory in slalom and combination at the US Open Class Championships in 1939
  • Victory in downhill, slalom and combined at the Harriman Cup in 1939
  • Swiss champion in downhill 1940
  • Victory in the Parsenn Derby in 1940

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Erni Mitchel-Steuri obituary. ( Memento of August 2, 2012 in the web archive archive.today ) Jungfrau Zeitung Online, accessed on February 15, 2012.
  2. ^ Rudolf Rubi : The summer and winter health resort: roads and railways, winter sports. (= In the valley of Grindelwald . Volume III). Verlag Sutter Druck, Grindelwald 1987, pp. 193-194.
  3. ↑ Organizing committee for the IV. Olympic Winter Games 1936 Garmisch-Partenkirchen EV (Ed.): IV. Olympic Winter Games 1936. Official report. Reichssportverlag , Berlin 1936, p. 300.
  4. ^ IV. Olympic Winter Games in Garmisch-Partenkirchen. In: Yearbook of the Swiss Ski Association. Volume 32, 1936. pp. 162-170.
  5. ^ Heinrich Fueter: The World Championships 1936 in Innsbruck. In: The mountain hare. Yearbook of the Swiss Academic Ski Club. Volume 3, No. 10, 1936, pp. 366-373.
  6. ^ Paul Simon: FIS race in Innsbruck 1936. In: Yearbook of the Swiss Ski Association. Volume 32, 1936. pp. 172-181.
  7. ↑ a b Results of the Arlberg-Kandahar Races 1928–1955 ( Memento from October 29, 2013 in the Internet Archive ) ( PDF file, 23 kB).
  8. ↑ Downhill Only. The Annual Journal of the Downhill Only Club. Vol. 1, No. 2, October 1937, p. 21.
  9. ^ Rudolf Rubi : The summer and winter health resort: roads and railways, winter sports. (= In the valley of Grindelwald . Volume III). Verlag Sutter Druck, Grindelwald 1987, p. 195.
  10. ↑ 31 mes Courses nationales suisses de ski aux Diablerets. In: Yearbook of the Swiss Ski Association. Volume 34, 1938. pp. 97-100.
  11. ^ Walter Amstutz : The World Ski Championships 1937. In: Der Schneehase. Yearbook of the Swiss Academic Ski Club. Volume 3, No. 11, 1937, pp. 513-516.
  12. ↑ Courses de la FIS in Chamonix. In: Yearbook of the Swiss Ski Association. Volume 34, 1938. pp. 102-104.
  13. ^ FIS races in Engelberg. In: Yearbook of the Swiss Ski Association. Volume 34, 1938. pp. 110-114.
  14. ↑ 32nd Swiss ski race in Wengen. In: Yearbook of the Swiss Ski Association. Volume 34, 1938. pp. 105-110.
  15. ^ Rudolf Rubi : The summer and winter health resort: roads and railways, winter sports. (= In the valley of Grindelwald . Volume III). Verlag Sutter Druck, Grindelwald 1987, pp. 195-196.
  16. ↑ 33rd Swiss ski race in Unterwasser. In: Yearbook of the Swiss Ski Association. 35th year, 1939. pp. 140-149.
  17. ^ National Ski Association (Ed.): American Ski Annual 1939. Stephen Daye Press, Brattleboro, Vermont, 1939. p. 78.
  18. ^ Elsa Roth : Swiss female skiers in USA In: Yearbook of the Swiss Ski Association. 35th year, 1939. pp. 154–155.
  19. ↑ National Ski Association (ed.): American Ski Annual 1939. Stephen Daye Press, Brattleboro, Vermont, 1939. pp. 199-200.
  20. ↑ Dick Dorworth: High Times at the Harriman. In: Skiing Heritage. Vol. 17, No. 1, March 2005, ISSN  1082-2895 , p. 27.
  21. ↑ National Ski Association (Ed.): American Ski Annual 1939. Stephen Daye Press, Brattleboro, Vermont, 1939. pp. 212-213.
  22. ↑ United States Ski Association (Ed.): A History. United States Ski Association. Colorado Springs 1967, pp. 78-79.
  23. ^ A b Rudolf Rubi : The summer and winter health resort: roads and railways, winter sports. (= In the valley of Grindelwald . Volume III). Verlag Sutter Druck, Grindelwald 1987, p. 196.
  24. ^ Christian Meisser: FIS races in Zakopane (Poland). In: Yearbook of the Swiss Ski Association. 35th year, 1939. pp. 150-154.
  25. ↑ Results of the Alpine World Ski Championships in 1939. In: alpineskiing-worldchampionships.com. Archived from the original on October 1, 2011 ; accessed on April 3, 2017 .
  26. ↑ 34th Swiss ski race in Gstaad. In: Yearbook of the Swiss Ski Association. 36th year, 1940. pp. 101-119.
  27. ^ Winners list of the Parsenn derby 1924–2009 ( PDF file, 29 kB).
  28. ↑ Yearbook of the Swiss Ski Association. Volume 37, 1941. p. 104.
  29. ^ Rudolf Rubi : The summer and winter health resort: roads and railways, winter sports. (= In the valley of Grindelwald . Volume III). Verlag Sutter Druck, Grindelwald 1987, pp. 185, 220, 222.
  30. ↑ 36th Swiss ski race in Grindelwald. In: Yearbook of the Swiss Ski Association. Volume 38, 1942. pp. 38-50.
personal data
SURNAME Steuri, Erna
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Swiss ski racer
DATE OF BIRTH April 22, 1917
PLACE OF BIRTH Grindelwald , Switzerland
DATE OF DEATH November 25, 2001
Place of death Grindelwald , Switzerland