Grete Alt-Lantschner

Grete Alt-Lantschner (born: Grete Lantschner ; born June 2, 1906 in Igls ; † January 6, 1989 there ) was an Austrian ski racer . She became Austrian champion in 1933 , achieved several podium places in international races and took part in the 1935 World Championship .

Career

Grete Lantschner and her brother Hellmut came from the famous Lantschner ski family that shaped alpine skiing in the late 1920s and 1930s. She went to school in Innsbruck and started skiing as a teenager. Lantschner belonged to the Innsbruck skiers' association and competed for the first time in the 1920s. In 1927 she became Tyrolean champion and repeated this victory a year later. Her first top result in an international race was second place behind Lisbeth Polland in the descent of the first Arlberg-Kandahar race in 1928 in St. Anton . In the same year she was third in the downhill at the first Austrian women's championship, behind her cousin Inge and Käthe Lettner from Salzburg . After she had to pause almost the entire 1928/29 season due to health problems, Lantschner returned to the slopes the next winter and achieved two fourth places in the downhill and slalom of the Arlberg-Kandahar race. The combination there finished in fifth place. Over the next few years she again had problems with her health and was unable to contest races for two seasons. During this time she married Ludwig Alt.

In 1933 Alt-Lantschner made her comeback and celebrated several great successes: At the Austrian championships in Kitzbühel, she was third in slalom, second in downhill and champion in combination. At the end of winter she celebrated her next victory in the downhill on the Marmolada . In 1934 their son Helmut was born, who also achieved some success as a ski racer in the 1950s, but never made it to the top of the world. So she had to take another year off. Then Alt-Lantschner returned to racing again and took part in their only world championship in 1935 in Mürren , Switzerland, where they did not, however, achieve any top positions. She did not achieve top results in the rest of the season either and ended her career in the spring of 1935.

Sporting successes

World championships

• Mürren 1935 : 23rd slalom, 24th combination, 28th descent

Austrian championships

• Austrian combined champion in 1933

literature

• Austrian Ski Association (Ed.): Austrian Ski Stars from A – Z , Innsbruck 2008, ISBN 978-3-9502285-7-1 , p. 12