Jeanette Kessler

Jeanette Kessler
nation	United Kingdom
birthday	4th October 1908
date of death	March 18, 1972
Career
discipline	Downhill , slalom , combination
Medal table
World Cup medals 0 × 0 × 2 ×
Alpine World Ski Championships bronze Murren 1931 slalom bronze Innsbruck 1933 combination

Jeanette Anne Kessler (born October 4, 1908 in Aberdeenshire , † March 18, 1972 in London ) was a British ski racer . She is a two-time medalist at World Ski Championships.

biography

Born in Scotland, Kessler was a member of the Ladies' Ski Club in the Swiss ski resort of Mürren . In the early days of women's ski racing at the beginning of the 1930s, she was one of the defining athletes. At the first World Ski Championships in 1931 , she won the bronze medal in slalom. She was able to repeat this success two years later at the World Championships in Innsbruck in 1933 with a third place in the combined ranking.

In 1934 she won the downhill and the combined at the Arlberg-Kandahar race in St. Anton. At the 1936 Winter Olympics in Garmisch-Partenkirchen, where alpine competitions were on the program for the first time, she came eighth in the combined ranking.

In 1959 she married James Riddell, a former skier and president of various ski clubs . With him she published the travel guide Ski Holidays in the Alps in 1961 .

successes

Olympic games

• Garmisch-Partenkirchen 1936 : 8th combination

World championships

• Mürren 1931 : 3rd slalom, 4th descent
• Innsbruck 1933 : 3rd combination, 4th slalom, 5th descent
• St. Moritz 1934 : 5th descent, 5th combination, 9th slalom
• Mürren 1935 : 9th slalom
• Innsbruck 1936 : 7th descent, 7th combination, 8th slalom

Web links

• Jeanette Kessler in the database of the International Ski Federation (English)
• Jeanette Kessler in the database of Ski-DB (English)
• Jeanette Kessler in the Sports-Reference database (English; archived from the original )