Lydia Gstrein

Lydia Gstrein
nation	Austria
birthday	December 11, 1931
place of birth	Kitzbühel
Career
discipline	Downhill, giant slalom, slalom, combination
society	Kitzbühel Ski Club
status	resigned
End of career	1952

Lydia Gstrein (* 11. December 1931 in Kitzbuehel ) is a former Austrian alpine skier . She won several international FIS races in the late 1940s and early 1950s and took part in the 1950 World Championships in Aspen .

Career

Gstrein learned to ski as a child and took part in his first competitions after the end of the Second World War. As a 15-year-old she won the giant slalom on Pengelstein in 1947 and was a good fourth in the Hahnenkamm run in Kitzbühel . In the winter of 1947/48 she already achieved numerous podium places and won the Madloch downhill run in Lech and the second Hahnenkamm downhill run in Kitzbühel. In the next winter, victories in the descent from Gröbming and in the slalom from Garmisch followed . Now Gstrein has been accepted into the Austrian national team. With a third place in the downhill section of the West Cup in Lech, she was also accepted into the team for the 1950 World Cup in Aspen . There she first achieved sixth place in the giant slalom, but did not start in the slalom. In downhill, her strongest discipline, she fell behind expectations with eleventh place. In the subsequent North American races, she achieved two podium places. Her only win this winter was the giant slalom on the Steinbergkogel .

In January 1951 Gstrein again achieved two podium places in the slalom from Lech and in the descent from Cortina d'Ampezzo . Because of an injury, she had to end the season early. At the beginning of the 1951/52 season it did not regain its old strength, which is why it was not used at the Olympic Games in Oslo. At the races in Montafon , she achieved some top positions again: She won the downhill in Schruns , came second in the slalom and in the combination and third in the downhill from Tschagguns . At the end of winter Gstrein was injured again and in the summer of 1952 she ended her career at the age of only 20.

Sporting successes

World championships

• Aspen 1950 : 6th giant slalom, 11th descent

FIS races

• 7 wins, 8 second and 7 third places

literature

• Austrian Ski Association (ed.): Austrian Ski Stars from A – Z , Innsbruck 2008, ISBN 978-3-9502285-7-1 , p. 124