Jeanette Kessler
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nation | United Kingdom | |||||||||
birthday | 4th October 1908 | |||||||||
date of death | March 18, 1972 | |||||||||
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discipline | Downhill , slalom , combination | |||||||||
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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 )
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SURNAME | Kessler, Jeanette |
ALTERNATIVE NAMES | Kessler, Jeanette Anne |
BRIEF DESCRIPTION | British ski racer |
DATE OF BIRTH | 4th October 1908 |
DATE OF DEATH | March 18, 1972 |
Place of death | London |