Irma Schmidegg

Irma Schmidegg
nation	Austria
birthday	January 9, 1901
place of birth	Trieste
date of death	June 12, 1991
Place of death	innsbruck
Career
discipline	Slalom , downhill , combination
society	Innsbruck Skiers Association
End of career	1933
Medal table
World championships 0 × 0 × 1 ×
Alpine World Ski Championships bronze Murren 1931 Departure

Irma Countess von Schmidegg (born January 9, 1901 in Trieste , Austria-Hungary , † June 12, 1991 in Innsbruck ) was an Austrian ski racer . She celebrated several victories in international races in the late 1920s and early 1930s and in 1931 she won the bronze medal in the downhill at the world championship in Mürren.

Career

Schmidegg was born in Trieste , where her father worked as chief inspector of the southern railway . Before they even started school, the family moved to Innsbruck , where they first came into contact with skiing. After finishing school, she started skiing more intensively. Schmidegg celebrated her first successes in 1929 at the Arlberg-Kandahar races in St. Anton , where she finished third in the downhill and finished sixth in the slalom and fifth in the combination. She also became a Tyrolean champion in cross-country skiing . In the winter of 1930 she won the Parsenn Derby in Davos and was third in the downhill from Lauterbrunnen .

1931 took Schmidegg to the later than the first World Cup evaluated FIS -Wettkämpfen in Murren part. There she won the bronze medal in downhill skiing behind the two Britons Esmé MacKinnon and Nell Carroll and in slalom she finished tenth. She finished the “Long Downhill” in third place, but this competition was not recognized as a world championship discipline. After the competitions she won two runs in Innsbruck and Mürren.

In the winter of 1932 Schmidegg won the downhill, slalom and combination at the Austrian championships in Zell am See . At the FIS competitions in Cortina d'Ampezzo , the second world championship , she won no medal this time. She was tenth in the downhill, eighth in the slalom and seventh in the combination. At the Arlberg-Kandahar races in 1932, she was fifth in the downhill and seventh in the combination.

Schmidegg competed in her last race in the winter of 1933, but she mostly only competed in national competitions. After the season she ended her sporting career at the age of 32.

Sporting successes

World championships

• Mürren 1931 : 3rd descent, 10th slalom
• Cortina d'Ampezzo 1932 : 7th combination, 8th slalom, 10th descent

Austrian championships

• Austrian champion in combination in 1932

literature

• Austrian Ski Association (ed.): Austrian Ski Stars from A – Z , Innsbruck 2008, ISBN 978-3-9502285-7-1 , p. 387

Web links

• Irma Schmidegg in the database of the International Ski Association (English)
• Irma Schmidegg in the database of Ski-DB (English)