Rosmarie Bleuer

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Rosmarie Bleuer Alpine skiing
nation SwitzerlandSwitzerland Switzerland
birthday March 16, 1926
place of birth Grindelwald
Career
discipline Downhill , slalom ,
giant slalom , combination
society SC Grindelwald
status resigned
End of career 1951
 

Rosmarie Bleuer , married Hirschy-Bleuer (born March 16, 1926 in Grindelwald ) is a former Swiss ski racer . She became a three-time Swiss champion , achieved several victories and podiums in international races and took part in the 1948 Winter Olympics and the 1950 World Cup.

biography

Rosmarie Bleuer was born as the daughter of the Grindelwald hotelier Christian Bleuer. The then 18-year-old achieved her first major success in early March 1945. As a junior at the Swiss Championships in Engelberg, she set the fastest time in the downhill and was 3.2 seconds ahead of the best elite driver Antoinette Meyer Swiss downhill champion . In 1946 she again won the downhill in the junior class at the Swiss championships in Davos , but this time she lagged significantly behind the best elite rider and Swiss champion Hedy Schlunegger . She also won the junior slalom in 1946 after finishing second in this discipline the previous year.

In the winter of 1947, Bleuer and five other Swiss skiers and team captain Arnold Glatthard took part in a two-month trip to the United States , where the group took part in several competitions. On the podium she achieved a victory in the downhill and a second place in the slalom of the Silver Dollar Derby near Reno , Nevada and a second place in the slalom of the US championships in Snowbasin near Salt Lake City , Utah .

In 1948 Bleuer was one of seven Swiss ski racers at the Winter Olympics in St. Moritz . She was 6th in the combination, 9th in the downhill and 13th in the slalom (the combined slalom, which counts together with the downhill for the combination, she finished in 6th position). Three weeks later she was second in the combined and third in the downhill in the national championships at the same location. She was victorious again at the Swiss Championships in Gstaad in 1949 , when she secured the championship title in the downhill and with another victory in the combination slalom also the title in the combination.

In January 1950 Bleuer won a slalom on the Lauberhorn in Wengen that was used to qualify for the World Cup . At the 1950 World Championships in Aspen , she was 15th in the downhill and 17th in the giant slalom twice in midfield, but in the slalom she was disqualified. At the subsequent Harriman Cup in Sun Valley , she was seventh in slalom, tenth in downhill and eighth in combination. In the same year, Bleuer married the then officer of the Swiss Army and later SSV and OPA presidents and FIS board member Pierre Hirschy (1913-1994).

In January 1951 Bleuer reached third place in the slalom of the SDS races held in her home town . In February of the same year she achieved second place in the slalom behind the Swiss champion Olivia Ausoni at the Swiss championships in Adelboden , before she retired from competitive sports at the end of the season.

successes

winter Olympics

(also counted as world championships)

World championships

Swiss championships

  • Swiss champion in the downhill in 1945 and 1949 as well as in the 1949 combination

More Achievements

  • 2nd place in the slalom of the US championships in Snow Basin 1947
  • Victory in the downhill and second place in the slalom of the Silver Dollar Derby in Reno 1947
  • Victory in the slalom on the Lauberhorn in Wengen 1950
  • 3rd place in the slalom of the SDS race in Grindelwald in 1951

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ a b Jérôme Guisolan: Hirschy, Pierre. In: Historical Lexicon of Switzerland .
  2. ↑ 39th Swiss ski race in Engelberg. In: Yearbook of the Swiss Ski Association, Volume XLI, 1947. pp. 66–71.
  3. ↑ 40th Swiss ski race in Davos. In: Yearbook of the Swiss Ski Association, Volume XLI, 1947. pp. 72–78.
  4. ↑ Hermann Gurtner : Cheerful Ambassadors. In: Yearbook of the Swiss Ski Association, Volume XLI, 1947. pp. 4–33.
  5. ^ Arnold Kaech : Olympic Winter Games St. Moritz 1948. In: Yearbook of the Swiss Ski Association, Volume XLII, 1948. P. 6–34 and 65–70.
  6. ↑ 42nd Swiss Ski Race St. Moritz. In: Yearbook of the Swiss Ski Association, Volume XLII, 1948. P. 72–79.
  7. ↑ 43rd Swiss Ski Race Gstaad. In: Yearbook of the Swiss Ski Association, Volume XLIII, 1949. pp. 55–61.
  8. ↑ Martin Born: Lauberhorn - the story of a myth. AS Verlag, Zurich 2004, ISBN 3-909111-08-4 , pp. 41 and 69.
  9. ^ Marc Hodler : The Alpine World Championships in Aspen. In: Yearbook of the Swiss Ski Association, Volume XLIV, 1950. pp. 22–31.
  10. ↑ Results of the 1950 World Cup at www.alpineskiing-worldchampionships.com/1950.htm, accessed on November 10, 2010 (web link no longer available).
  11. ^ Ski championships for the Harriman Cup in Sun Valley (Idaho). In: Yearbook of the Swiss Ski Association, Volume XLIV, 1950. pp. 31–32.
  12. ^ Hirschy Pierre, 1913, La Chaux-de-Fonds. In: The mountain hare. Yearbook of the Swiss Academic Ski Club. No. 34, 1986-1990. P. 122.
  13. ↑ 1st Swiss Ski Championship Week Adelboden. In: Yearbook of the Swiss Ski Association, Volume XLV, 1951. P. 70.
  14. ^ Ski competition in Switzerland and its current position in the international competition. In: Yearbook of the Swiss Ski Association, Volume XLVI, 1952. P. 55.
personal data
SURNAME Bleuer, Rosmarie
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Swiss ski racer
DATE OF BIRTH March 16, 1926
PLACE OF BIRTH Grindelwald , Switzerland