Evelyn Pinching

Evelyn Pinching
nation	United Kingdom
birthday	March 18, 1915
place of birth	Norwich
date of death	December 24, 1988
Place of death	Westminster
Career
discipline	Downhill , slalom , combination
Medal table
World championships 2 × 1 × 0 ×
Alpine World Ski Championships gold Innsbruck 1936 Departure gold Innsbruck 1936 combination silver Innsbruck 1936 slalom

Evelyn Amy Pinching (born March 18, 1915 in Norwich , † December 24, 1988 in Westminster , London ) was a British ski racer .

As a member of the “Ladies' Ski Club” founded by Arnold Lunn in Mürren , Switzerland , Pinching celebrated his first successes at the Arlberg-Kandahar races . In 1934 she was second in slalom in St. Anton and in 1935 in Mürren also second in slalom and combined. In the same place she finished two fourth and one fifth at the 1935 World Cup .

At the World Championships in Innsbruck in 1936 , she was then two-time world champion in downhill and combined. In the slalom she won the silver medal behind the Austrian runner Gerda Paumgarten .

The trophy of the British Ski Association for the slalom champion is named after her Evie Pinching Salver .

successes

Olympic games

• Garmisch-Partenkirchen 1936 : 9th combination

World championships

• Mürren 1935 : 4th descent, 5th slalom, 5th Alpine combination
• Innsbruck 1936 : 1st descent, 2nd slalom, 1st combination

Web links

• Evelyn Pinching in the database of the International Ski Federation (English)
• Evelyn Pinching in the database of Ski-DB (English)
• Evelyn Pinching in the Sports-Reference database (English; archived from the original )