Frieda Danzer

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Frieda Brunner-Dänzer (born November 16, 1930 in Adelboden ; † January 21, 2015 ) was a Swiss ski racer . The five-time Swiss champion was one of the best drivers in the world in the second half of the 1950s.

Dänzer was born as one of eight children to a mountain farming family from the Bernese Oberland . She came into contact with skiing early on, as part of her way to school was only possible on skis in winter.

Dänzer developed into one of the most successful skiers in Switzerland in the 1950s. However, the start of her sporting career was fraught with some hurdles. In January 1950 she suffered a complicated fracture of her right tibia and fibula in a fall, which put her out of action for six months. After her recovery, Dänzer made it back to the Swiss national team. In 1954, however, she was not taken to the World Championships in Åre , although she had recently become Swiss downhill champion on the Lauberhorn in Wengen .

In the following years, however, she achieved great international success. At the 1956 Winter Olympics in Cortina d'Ampezzo , she won the silver medal behind her teammate Madeleine Berthod in the downhill . She won another silver medal in the combined ranking, for which the International Ski Federation only awarded World Championship medals. Two years later she became the star of the women's races at the 1958 World Ski Championships in Badgastein . She won a medal in three of the four competitions and was world champion in the Alpine Combined. Four weeks before this World Cup, she had won the giant slalom at the SDS races in Grindelwald .

She lived with her husband Alfred Brunner in Brunnen SZ until her death .

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Individual evidence

  1. ^ Frieda Brunner-Dänzer obituary notice
  2. ↑ «Current questions of national skiing»; “Sport Zürich”, No. 20 of February 17, 1954, page 2.
personal data
SURNAME Danzer, Frieda
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Brunner-Dänzer, Frieda (married name)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Swiss ski racer
DATE OF BIRTH November 16, 1930
PLACE OF BIRTH Adelboden
DATE OF DEATH January 21, 2015