Rösli Streiff

Rösli Streiff
nation	Switzerland
birthday	January 16, 1901
place of birth	Glarus
date of death	February 7, 1997
Place of death	Glarus
Career
discipline	Downhill , slalom , combination
society	SDS Glarus
Medal table
World championships 2 × 0 × 0 ×
Alpine World Ski Championships gold Cortina d'Ampezzo 1932 slalom gold Cortina d'Ampezzo 1932 combination

Rosa ("Rösli") Streiff (born January 16, 1901 in Glarus ; † February 7, 1997 there ) was a Swiss ski racer . She won two gold medals at the Alpine World Ski Championships in 1932 and achieved several victories and podiums in national and international races.

biography

Streiff competed in her first ski race in 1928 and was a founding member of the Swiss women's ski club in 1929 . In July 1929 she won the slalom of the summer ski race on Jungfraujoch , and came third in the downhill. At the Arlberg-Kandahar races in Mürren in 1931 she was third in slalom and combined and fourth in the downhill. In the same year, Streiff also took part in the first Alpine World Ski Championships in Mürren , where they placed in the midfield.

Streiff won all disciplines in the first SDS races of the Swiss Women's Ski Club on January 15, 1932. Two weeks later, she was also a three-time winner in downhill, slalom and combined at the Great Ski Race in Switzerland - the Swiss Ski Championships - in Zermatt , for which at that time no championship titles were awarded, only hiking prizes. Streiff reached the high point of her career in early February at the 1932 World Cup in Cortina d'Ampezzo . She initially took eighth place in the downhill run, and the next day she was more than ten seconds ahead of the British Audrey Sale-Barker , becoming world champion in slalom and thus also securing the combined world title.

At the second SDS race in 1933, Streiff was second in the downhill and third in both slalom and combination. At the 1933 World Championships in Innsbruck she was fifth in slalom, but only 22nd in downhill and eighth in combination. A year later she achieved top 10 results in all disciplines again at the 1934 World Championships in St. Moritz , finishing sixth in the downhill, eighth in the slalom and seventh in the combination. At the 1935 World Championships in Mürren, Streiff was affected by a training injury that she had suffered shortly before the start of the competitions. Nevertheless, she finished sixth in the slalom, but only 29th in the downhill, which meant 16th place in the combination. Before that, she was second in the slalom at the Austrian Championships in 1935 and fifth in the slalom at the Arlberg-Kandahar races. At her last World Cup participation in Innsbruck in 1936 , a 13th place in the slalom was her best result.

In 1939, Streiff registered for the first women's recruiting school in Basel and became a truck driver in the women's service . Together with her brother Christian, she was the managing director of the Streiff bleaching plant in Glarus, founded by her grandfather in 1863 .

successes

World championships

• Mürren 1931 : 8th slalom, 10th combination, 12th descent (7th long descent)
• Cortina d'Ampezzo 1932 : 1st slalom, 1st combination, 8th descent
• Innsbruck 1933 : 5th slalom, 8th combination, 22nd descent
• St. Moritz 1934 : 6th descent, 7th combination, 8th slalom
• Mürren 1935 : 6th slalom, 16th combination, 29th descent
• Innsbruck 1936 : 13th slalom, 15th combination, 16th descent

More Achievements

• Summer ski race on Jungfraujoch 1929: 1st slalom, 3rd descent
• Arlberg-Kandahar race 1931: 3rd slalom, 3rd combination, 4th descent
• SDS race 1932: Victory in downhill, slalom and combined
• SDS race 1933: 2nd downhill, 3rd slalom, 3rd combination

Web links

• Reto Müller: Rösli Streiff. In: Historical Lexicon of Switzerland .
• Rösli Streiff in the database of the International Ski Federation (English)
• Rösli Streiff in the database of Ski-DB (English)

Individual evidence

1. ^ Walter Amstutz : The 12th summer ski race on the Jungfraujoch. In: The mountain hare. Yearbook of the Swiss Academic Ski Club. Vol. 1, No. 3, 1929. pp. 242-244.
2. ↑ ^{a b} Results of the AK races 1928–1955. ( Memento of the original from October 29, 2013 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. ( PDF file, 23 kB) 
3. ↑ 26th big Swiss ski race in Zermatt. In: Yearbook of the Swiss Ski Association, 28th year, 1932. pp. 148–160.
4. ↑ ^{a b} Results of the world championships according to the reports in the yearbooks of the Swiss Ski Association and the no longer accessible website www.alpineskiing-worldchampionships.com.
5. ↑ FIS races for downhill and slalom in Mürren. In: Yearbook of the Swiss Ski Association, 31st year, 1935. p. 163.
6. ^ History. Promedical AG website, accessed April 30, 2012.