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Ida Schöpfer-Bieri (born October 29, 1929 in Flühli ; † June 7, 2014 there ) was a Swiss ski racer . She was ten times Swiss champion . In 1954 she became double world champion in downhill and combined.

biography

Schöpfer came from a long-established family of mountain farmers from Flühli ( Canton Lucerne ). She skied for the first time at the age of four. Later on, the way to school, which she covered on skis in winter, was everyday training. She won her first race in 1938 at the age of nine. In the following years Schöpfer collected numerous titles at the regional official ski championships and the central Swiss championships.

At the national level, Schöpfer first drew attention to herself in 1948 when she won the junior women’s combined slalom at the Swiss Championships. In the following year she made the leap into the Swiss national ski team. At the beginning of the 1950s, she then advanced to become the most successful skier in Swiss ski racing. Between 1951 and 1954 she won ten titles in national championships: 1951 in giant slalom, 1952 in downhill, slalom and combined, 1953 in giant slalom, downhill and combined, 1954 in giant slalom, slalom and in Combination.

International success initially lagged a little behind this national dominance. Despite some notable successes - such as third place in the downhill race of the SDS races in 1949 or second place in the giant slalom at the pre-Olympic competitions on Holmenkollen in 1951 - Schöpfer was initially unable to pull Swiss women's ski racing out of its international second class. At the Olympic Winter Games in Oslo , she was one of the top Swiss women with a tenth place in the downhill and 16th in the giant slalom.

That changed at the 1954 World Ski Championships in Åre, Sweden . Originally, the Swiss Ski Association did not want to send a women's team to these championships for financial reasons. When Schöpfer threatened never to compete for the association again, the officials changed their stance and let her and her team-mate Madeleine Berthod travel to Sweden by train. The World Cup was the highlight of Schöpfer's career. First of all, she distanced the favored Austrian Trude Klecker by a tenth of a second in downhill skiing and thus won the first World Championship title for the Swiss women's team since Anny Rüegg in the slalom at the World Championship in Mürren in 1935 (apart from the fact that Hedy Schlunegger's at the 1948 Olympics fetched downhill gold also counts as World Cup gold). After finishing only eighth on her parade course, the giant slalom, she won the silver medal in the slalom with an excellent second run. With her slalom performance, she also won the combined ranking with a clear lead over her compatriot Madeleine Berthod and became double world champion.

Ida Schöpfer was then the first woman to be voted Swiss athlete of the year 1954 . In 2004 the Flühli Ski Club organized a “World Cup week” in her honor, during which documents and objects were exhibited and in which Karl Erb and Bernhard Russi also took part. Ida Schöpfer died in her hometown of Flühli in June 2014 at the age of 84.

statistics

1952 Winter Olympics in Oslo :

  • 10th departure
  • 16. Giant slalom
  • Slalom disqualified

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ 42nd Swiss Ski Race St. Moritz. In: Yearbook of the Swiss Ski Association. Volume XLII, 1948. p. 74.
  2. ^ Ski world champion Ida Schöpfer has passed away , accessed on June 15, 2014
personal data
SURNAME Creator, Ida
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Creator Bieri, Ida
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Swiss ski racer
DATE OF BIRTH October 29, 1929
PLACE OF BIRTH Flühli
DATE OF DEATH June 7, 2014
Place of death Flühli