Gratia Schimmelpenninck van der Oye

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Gratia Schimmelpenninck van der Oye

Gratia Maria Margretha Baronesse Schimmelpenninck van der Oye (born July 10, 1912 in Doorn , † February 12, 2012 in The Hague ) was a Dutch ski racer . She was the first and so far only female athlete in her country to advance to the top in alpine skiing.

Life

Gratia Maria Margretha, from the Schimmelpenninck family , was born as the third daughter of Baron Alphert Schimmelpenninck van der Oye and the young mistress Henriette Huyssen van Kattendijke. Through her father, who was chairman of the Dutch Olympic Committee and member of the IOC , she came into contact with competitive sports very early on. Gratia Schimmelpenninck van der Oye grew up with her mother in Austria and so found her way to skiing. She trained first with local youth and later with French and English runners in Switzerland and South Tyrol .

In the mid-1930s, it made a name for itself on international downhill runs . In 1935 she was sixth in downhill skiing at the World Ski Championships in Mürren, Switzerland, and won the Hahnenkamm race in Kitzbühel in downhill, slalom and combined . In the following year she won the downhill of the Arlberg-Kandahar race in St. Anton and was victorious again in the combined classification of the Hahnenkamm race in Kitzbühel.

After all, in 1936 in Garmisch-Partenkirchen, she was the first woman to compete for the Netherlands at the Winter Olympics . Their participation was overshadowed by a scandal. On the eve of her competition, she received a call at her hotel and was informed that she was not allowed to start because of a violation of the amateur rules. After her father protested to the Reich Sports Leader Hans von Tschammer und Osten , who was not aware of this incident, Schimmelpenninck started on the morning of February 7, 1936. In the downhill race she was 13th, in the slalom the next day she fell in the second run and ended up in 14th place in the combined ranking from both competitions.

Gratia Schimmelpenninck van der Oye won the Dutch championships, which have been held since 1935, five times : in 1935, 1936, 1937, 1939 and again in 1947, when the championships were held again for the first time after the Second World War after a seven-year break.

After her marriage to Henri van den Bergh in 1939 and the end of World War II, she became a member of the Executive Council of the International Ski Federation (FIS).

Varia

On December 16, 1938, Gratia Schimmelpenninck van der Oye opened one of the first ski lifts in Switzerland, the Tschuggen ski lift in Arosa , as a lady of honor , by being the first to ski through the ribbon in a short skirt and a bouquet of flowers in her arms.

Web links

Commons : Gratia Schimmelpenninck van der Oye  - Collection of images, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ First Nederlandse vrouw op Spelen overleden
  2. ^ In memoriam Gratia Schimmelpenninck van der Oye. ( Memento of the original from January 24, 2015 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. In: Nederlandse Ski Vereniging (Ed.): Nederlandse (Jeugd) Kampioenschappen Alpine 2012. p. 19.  @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / issuu.com
  3. ↑ Photo of the Tschuggen ski lift opening ride at www.seilbahn-nostalgie.ch
  4. ^ Hans Danuser : Arosa - as it was back then (1928-1946). Vol. 3. Self-published by Danuser, Arosa 1999, p. 164.
personal data
SURNAME Schimmelpenninck van der Oye, Gratia
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Schimmelpenninck van der Oye, Gratia Maria Margretha Baronesse (full name)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Dutch ski racer
DATE OF BIRTH July 10, 1912
PLACE OF BIRTH Doorn , Netherlands
DATE OF DEATH February 12, 2012
Place of death The Hague , Netherlands