Regina Schöpf
Regina Schöpf 
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| birthday | September 16, 1935 | ||||||||||||
| place of birth | innsbruck | ||||||||||||
| date of death | October 30, 2008 | ||||||||||||
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Slalom , giant slalom , downhill , combination |
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| society | SC Seefeld | ||||||||||||
| End of career | 1956 | ||||||||||||
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Regina Schöpf (born September 16, 1935 in Innsbruck ; † October 30, 2008 ) was an Austrian ski racer . In the 1950s, she celebrated several victories in international races and won the silver medal in slalom at the 1956 Winter Olympics .
Career
After the end of the Second World War , Schöpf began skiing, joined the Seefeld Ski Club and developed into a good runner, especially in the technical disciplines of slalom and giant slalom. After some success in junior races, she celebrated her first victory in the giant slalom in Innsbruck in the winter of 1952/53 and achieved further podium places in the giant slalom on the Zugspitze and in her home town of Seefeld. The next winter she won the slaloms in Kitzbühel and Méribel as well as the giant slalom in Seefeld. At her first major event, the 1954 World Cup in Åre , Sweden , the then 18-year-old missed a medal by just five hundredths of a second and finished fourth in the slalom.
In the winter of 1954/55 Schöpf won the slalom in Saint-Gervais-les-Bains and came second in the slalom in Kitzbühel and in the giant slalom in Vall de Núria . In the 1955/56 season she was able to win the giant slalom in Saalfelden , the slalom in Zakopane as well as the slalom and giant slalom in Seefeld and became Austrian slalom champion . She celebrated her greatest success at the 1956 Winter Olympics in Cortina d'Ampezzo . After she only finished ninth in the giant slalom on January 27th, when she started with an injury of the Achilles tendon during training on January 25th, she won the silver medal in the slalom behind the Swiss Renée Colliard .
After the Olympic season, Schöpf surprisingly ended her career at the age of only 20.
Sporting successes
winter Olympics
- Cortina d'Ampezzo 1956 : 2nd slalom, 9th giant slalom
World championships
- Åre 1954 : 4th slalom
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Cortina d'Ampezzo 1956
: 2nd slalom, 9th giant slalom
Austrian championships
- Austrian champion in slalom 1956
Awards
literature
- Austrian Ski Association (Ed.): Austrian Ski Stars from A – Z. Ablinger & Garber, Hall in Tirol 2008, ISBN 978-3-9502285-7-1 , p. 395.
Web links
- Regina Schöpf in the database of the International Ski Association (English)
- Regina Schöpf in the database of Ski-DB (English)
- Regina Schöpf in the database of Sports-Reference (English; archived from the original )
Individual evidence
- ↑ Regina Schöpf-Bacher passed away. ( Memento of the original from November 15, 2012 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. Austrian Olympic Committee, November 9, 2008.
- ^ "Regina Schöpf injured again" . In: Arbeiter-Zeitung . Vienna January 26, 1956, p. 8 ( berufer-zeitung.at - the open online archive - digitized).
- ↑ List of all decorations awarded by the Federal President for services to the Republic of Austria from 1952 (PDF; 6.9 MB)
| personal data | |
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| SURNAME | Schöpf, Regina |
| ALTERNATIVE NAMES | Schöpf-Bacher, Regina |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | Austrian ski racer |
| DATE OF BIRTH | September 16, 1935 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | innsbruck |
| DATE OF DEATH | October 30, 2008 |