Rosemarie Gebler-Proxauf

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Rosemarie Gebler-Proxauf Alpine skiing
nation AustriaAustria Austria German Empire
German Reich NSGerman Reich (Nazi era) 
birthday January 25, 1921
place of birth Trutnov, Czechoslovakia
job Businesswoman (long-established textile shop in Museumstrasse, Innsbruck)
date of death May 2011 (advertisement in the Tyrolean daily newspaper without exact date)
Place of death Innsbruck, Austria
Career
discipline Slalom , giant slalom ,
downhill , combination
society Innsbruck ski club
End of career 1952
 

Rosemarie Gebler-Proxauf , b. Proxauf (born January 25, 1921 in Trutnov , Czechoslovakia , † May 2011 in Innsbruck ) was an Austrian ski racer . She took part in two world championships and achieved numerous victories in international races before and after the Second World War .

biography

Proxauf grew up in Innsbruck in Tyrol , but was born in Trutnov in Czechoslovakia , her mother's hometown. Like her sister Anneliese , who is one year younger than her, she came to skiing through her parents who are enthusiastic about skiing. After the opening of the Nordkettenbahn, the siblings visited the ski school on the Seegrube , the head of which their first trainer became. They completed their first race in 1933 at the Alpine Club's youth ski day. In 1935 Prox joined the Innsbruck ski club, and in 1936 and 1937 she became a Tyrolean champion in alpine combination. From 1938, after the annexation of Austria , Proxauf belonged to the greater German national team. In 1939 she finished high school with the Matura.

Proxauf achieved its first international victory in 1940 in the descent from Cervinia . She was very successful in the following winter of 1941: She won downhill, slalom and combined of the Tschammer Cup in St. Anton am Arlberg , three giant slaloms in Lech , Hafelekar and Berchtesgaden as well as the German downhill championship in Garmisch-Partenkirchen , at the same time as Hilde Doleschell . At the 1941 World Championships in Cortina d'Ampezzo , which was canceled by the International Ski Federation in 1946 , she just missed the medal ranks: fourth in slalom, fifth in combined and seventh in downhill.

In the years that followed, ski racing largely came to a standstill due to the Second World War . Proxauf married Leonhard Gebler, who died shortly before the end of the war, and gave birth to two daughters. The older woman was also a promising ski racer in the early 1960s, before ending her career in 1964 after two broken legs.

Gebler-Proxauf took part in ski races again after the war and once again caught up with the Austrian top. She could not qualify for the 1948 Winter Olympics, but in the winter of 1949 she celebrated numerous victories again: She won two slaloms in Seefeld , a slalom in Auron , the combination of the Coppa Femina in Abetone and the slalom of the Arlberg-Kandahar race in St. Anton. In the winter of 1950 she was accepted into the team for the World Championship in Aspen , where she only started in the slalom and finished twelfth. In the next year Gebler-Proxauf achieved several top 5 placements, but when she was unable to qualify for the 1952 Winter Olympics, she ended her career.

successes

World championships

Victories in FIS races

  • Departure from Cervinia in 1940
  • Departure of the German Championships in Garmisch-Partenkirchen in 1941
  • Downhill, slalom and combination of the Tschammer Cup in St. Anton 1941
  • Giant slalom in Lech 1941
  • Giant slalom at Hafelekar in 1941
  • Giant slalom in Berchtesgaden 1941
  • Two slaloms in Seefeld in 1949
  • Slalom of the Arlberg-Kandahar race in St. Anton 1949
  • Slalom in Auron 1949
  • Combination of the Coppa Femina in Abetone 1949

literature

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Karl Graf: Tyrolean sports history. Gymnastics and sport in Tyrol until 1955. Haymon-Verlag, Innsbruck 1996, ISBN 3-85218-169-0 , p. 129.
personal data
SURNAME Gebler-Proxauf, Rosemarie
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Austrian ski racer
DATE OF BIRTH January 25, 1921
PLACE OF BIRTH Trutnov , Czechoslovakia
DATE OF DEATH May 2011
Place of death innsbruck