Rosi Sailer

Career
Rosi Sailer
nation	Austria Austria
birthday	August 20, 1931
place of birth	Kitzbühel
size	168 cm
Weight	55 kg
discipline	Slalom, giant slalom, downhill, combination
society	Kitzbühel Ski Club
status	resigned
End of career	1954

Rosi Sailer (born August 20, 1931 in Kitzbühel , Tyrol ) is a former Austrian ski racer . She achieved several top positions in the Hahnenkamm races and took part in the 1952 Winter Olympics.

Career

Rosi Sailer learned to ski as a child, her father Anton was an avid skier himself. Sailer began with racing after the end of the Second World War . In 1950 she celebrated her first victory in the Hahnenkamm downhill run from Kitzbühel, but in the absence of the top runners. In the next winter she also achieved good placings at the Hahnenkamm races, finishing second in the downhill and third in the slalom and combined. With further good performances she succeeded in qualifying for the Olympic Winter Games in Oslo in 1952 , whereby her victory in a qualifying slalom scheduled for this on January 21 in Badgastein earned her the final ticket. There it was only used in the slalom and took 17th place.

In the 1952/53 season, Sailer's best results were second place in the giant slalom in Innsbruck and third place in the giant slalom in Grindelwald . The following winter, she managed to place second in the downhill from Kitzbühel, which brought her to the team for the 1954 World Cup in Åre . There, however, she remained a substitute runner and did not race. After this season Sailer ended her career.

Her two younger brothers Rudi and Toni were also ski racers, the latter was multiple world and Olympic champions.

Sporting successes

winter Olympics

Oslo 1952 : 17th slalom

World championships

Oslo 1952 : 17th slalom

literature

Austrian Ski Association (ed.): Austrian Ski Stars from A – Z , Innsbruck 2008, ISBN 978-3-9502285-7-1 , p. 369

Web links

Rosi Sailer in the Sports-Reference database (English; archived from the original )

Individual evidence

↑ Column 4: “Molterer and Sailer” . In: Arbeiter-Zeitung . Vienna January 22, 1952, p. 8 ( berufer-zeitung.at - the open online archive - digitized).

personal data
SURNAME	Sailer, Rosi
BRIEF DESCRIPTION	Austrian ski racer
DATE OF BIRTH	August 20, 1931
PLACE OF BIRTH	Kitzbühel , Tyrol

[1] Column 4: “Molterer and Sailer” . In: Arbeiter-Zeitung . Vienna January 22, 1952, p. 8 ( berufer-zeitung.at - the open online archive - digitized).