Resi Hammerer

Resi Hammerer
nation	Austria
birthday	February 18, 1925
place of birth	Hirschegg
date of death	June 14, 2010
Career
discipline	Slalom , giant slalom , downhill , combination
society	SC Kleinwalsertal, Ski Club Arlberg
End of career	1950
Medal table
Olympic games 0 × 0 × 1 × World championships 0 × 0 × 1 ×
winter Olympics bronze St. Moritz 1948 Departure  Alpine World Ski Championships bronze St. Moritz 1948 Departure

Hammerer Resi from the Kleinwalsertal Ski Club in Lech am Arlberg

Therese "Resi" Hammerer (born February 18, 1925 in Hirschegg ; † June 14, 2010 ) was an Austrian ski racer . She won the bronze medal in the downhill at the 1948 Olympic Winter Games , was four times Austrian champion and won several international races.

Career

Hammerer began skiing as a teenager. The Vorarlberg native from Kleinwalsertal attended business school in Oberstdorf, Swabia , and became a Swabian master in 1944 and 1945. In 1946 she achieved second place in the combined ranking at the Austrian country meeting in Eisenerz with two third places in downhill and slalom. In the same year she also managed her first victory in the downhill of the Gamperney Derby in Grabs .

In the winter of 1946/47 Hammerer won the downhill and the combined in the races for the White Ribbon in St. Moritz , came second in the downhill from Grabs and Austrian champion in slalom. In the 1947/48 season, the Vorarlbergerin reached two third places in the downhill and combined of the west cup in Lech . At the 1948 Winter Olympics in St. Moritz, she won the bronze medal in the downhill, behind the Swiss Hedy Schlunegger and the Austrian Trude Beiser, and finished seventh in the slalom. In the combination she fell back to 12th place after a failed combined slalom (17th place).

In the winter of 1948/49 Hammerer won the Hahnenkamm descent from Kitzbühel and came in second in slalom and combined. She also came second in St. Anton in the slalom and the combination of the Arlberg-Kandahar races , and came third in the downhill. In Villach she won three Austrian championship titles in downhill, slalom and combined. At the 1950 World Championships in Aspen , Hammerer fell short of expectations and did not win a medal. The best result was seventh place in the giant slalom. In the subsequent North American races, she achieved another giant slalom victory on Mount Lincoln in the Sugar Bowl . After the season she ended her sporting career.

Hammerer began producing his own ski clothing as early as 1949 and opened a sports fashion shop in Bregenz . Additional branches in Vienna and Linz followed in the 1950s and 1960s . In addition to winter clothing, she became internationally known for her traditional costume and loden collections and received several awards.

Sporting successes

winter Olympics

• St. Moritz 1948 : 3rd descent, 7th slalom, 12th combination

World championships

• St. Moritz 1948 : 3rd descent, 7th slalom, 12th combination
• Aspen 1950 : 7th giant slalom, 9th slalom, 10th descent

Austrian championships

Hammerer became four times Austrian champion :

• Slalom: 1947 and 1949
• Departure: 1949
• Combination: 1949

Awards

• Medal of honor for sporting achievements in gold from the state of Vorarlberg 1961
• City of Vienna Fashion Prize 1985
• Gold Medal of Merit of the Republic of Austria 1996

literature

• Austrian Ski Association (Ed.): Austrian Ski Stars from A – Z. Ablinger & Garber, Hall in Tirol 2008, ISBN 978-3-9502285-7-1 , pp. 135-136.
• Siegfried Holzer: Kleinwalsertal Century - Review. (PDF) December 31, 1999, p. 18f , accessed June 30, 2009 . 

Web links

• Resi Hammerer in the database of the International Ski Federation (English)
• Resi Hammerer in the database of Ski-DB (English)
• Resi Hammerer in the Sports-Reference database (English; archived from the original )