Marianne Jahn

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Marianne Jahn Alpine skiing
nation AustriaAustria Austria
birthday 14th December 1942 (age 77)
place of birth Zürs ,  German Empire
Career
discipline Slalom , giant slalom ,
downhill , combination
society Ski Club Arlberg
status resigned
End of career 1964
Medal table
World championships 2 × gold 1 × silver 0 × bronze
FIS Alpine World Ski Championships
gold Chamonix 1962 slalom
gold Chamonix 1962 Giant slalom
silver Chamonix 1962 combination
 

Marianne Jahn , married Nutt (born December 14, 1942 in Zürs ) is a former Austrian ski racer . At the beginning of the 1960s she was one of the best slalom and giant slalom runners and became world champion in these disciplines in 1962.

Career

Marianne Jahn grew up as the daughter of a master baker in Zürs am Arlberg . Like her five siblings, she began skiing as a child, where her great talent, especially in the technical disciplines, soon became apparent. Jahn actually wanted to be a nurse, but dropped out of school in favor of skiing. The ÖSV became aware of the young woman from Vorarlberg when she appeared in the 1958 film “ The Black Lightning ” as Maria Perschy's double at Toni Sailer 's side.

In the 1959/60 season Jahn was included in the ÖSV squad. After several good results, including sixth place in the slalom of Grindelwald with the high start number 88, she was also able to start in the slalom at the 1960 Winter Olympics in Squaw Valley . After she was in the excellent second place in the first run, she was disqualified in the second run after a fall shortly before the finish. As the season progressed, the 17-year-old celebrated her first victories and won, for example, the combination in the Harriman Cup in Sun Valley as well as the slalom and combination at the famous Arlberg-Kandahar races in Sestriere .

In December 1960, Jahn was injured in a fall in Val-d'Isère and had to pause for several weeks. After that she won all other slalom races of the season and was able to repeat her slalom victory at the Arlberg-Kandahar races. In 1961 she became Austrian champion in giant slalom.

The 1961/62 season began with further victories, including the slalom races in Oberstaufen ( Staufenpokal ), Grindelwald ( SDS races ) and Bad Gastein ( silver jug ​​races ), making them one of the top favorites at the 1962 World Cup in Chamonix , France . There she fully lived up to the high expectations and celebrated the greatest successes of her career. In the first competition, the giant slalom, the 19-year-old won her first gold medal with seven hundredths of a second ahead of her teammate Erika Netzer . The second gold followed three days later in the slalom, where she crossed the finish line with a lead of almost 1.5 seconds on French Marielle Goitschel . With the 22nd place in the downhill she also reached the second place in the combination behind Goitschel and in front of Netzer.

In the 1962/63 season, Jahn continued her winning streak, winning the slalom and giant slalom of the gold key race in Montafon , among other competitions, and becoming Austrian slalom champion. On April 27, 1963, she married in Balzers , the hometown of her husband Freddy Nutt, and gave birth to their first daughter in the fall (three more followed after her career). Therefore, she went with a clear training deficit in the 1963/64 season, where she was not able to perform as usual and did not reach a podium. At the Olympic Winter Games in Innsbruck in 1964 , she was also unsuccessful. In the slalom she was eliminated in the first round, in the giant slalom she only finished 13th. After the games she still achieved some good results, but after the season at the age of only 21 she announced her retirement from ski racing.

successes

winter Olympics

World championships

Austrian championships

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personal data
SURNAME Jahn, Marianne
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Nutt, Marianne
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Austrian ski racer
DATE OF BIRTH December 14, 1942
PLACE OF BIRTH Zürs