Lina Mittner

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Lina Mittner-Simmen (born February 10, 1919 in Chur ; † February 25, 2013 there ) was a Swiss ski racer . In 1948 she was two-time Swiss champion in downhill and combined and took part in the winter games in St. Moritz as a member of the Swiss Olympic team.

Career

Mittner learned to ski at the age of four in the Brambrüesch region . She belonged to the Swiss women's ski club and began her sporting career immediately after the end of the Second World War. In January 1946 she qualified for the Swiss alpine ski team in Mürren . At this point in time their first daughter was born. The all-rounder competed in all three disciplines - downhill, slalom and combined. In the same year she won the international downhill race in Megève .

She achieved the greatest success of her career on January 7, 1947, when she won the first and only Lauberhorn descent for women in Wengen . The steep and fast route suited her bold driving style very well and in the end she was five seconds ahead of the favored Frenchwoman Françoise Gignoux with a time of 4:08 minutes . For Mittner, this victory meant the final breakthrough to the national elite.

With her successes in Megève and Wengen, Mittner had recommended herself for a two-month trip to North America for the national ski team, which was planned in early 1947. After a counter-speech from Louis Guisan , the President of the Swiss Ski Association, Mittner had to stay at home because of her family ties.

In the Olympic season of 1948 Mittner confirmed her athletic achievements. She was two-time Swiss champion in downhill and combined. At the Winter Games in her native St. Moritz, the Graubünden woman competed in downhill and combined and rounded off the excellent result of the Swiss women's national team with fifth place in the downhill.

After the end of the games, she announced her resignation from the national team for family reasons, because she could no longer combine family and sport in anticipation of her second daughter. However, she remained involved in alpine racing as a referee for the Swiss Ski Association and as a technical delegate for the World Ski Association (FIS) until 1982.

Mittner skied well into old age. It was not until 2001 that a knee operation forced her to put her skis in the basement.

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winter Olympics

Swiss championships

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Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Curriculum vitae at lauberhorn.ch, accessed on February 11, 2016.
personal data
SURNAME Mittner, Lina
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Mittner-Simmen, Lina
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Swiss ski racer
DATE OF BIRTH February 10, 1919
PLACE OF BIRTH Chur , Switzerland
DATE OF DEATH February 25, 2013
Place of death Chur , Switzerland