Růžena Beinhauerová

Career
Růžena Beinhauerová

nation	Czechoslovakia Czechoslovakia
birthday	September 23, 1912
place of birth	Moravian Ostrau , Austria-Hungary
job	High school and university teacher, trainer
date of death	May 16, 1968
Place of death	Ivančice , Czechoslovakia
discipline	Alpine skiing cross-country skiing basketball rowing
society	LK Brno (ski club), ČVK Brno (rowing), AC Arsenal Husovice (basketball)
End of career	1950 (skiing), 1957 (rowing)

Růžena "Ruža" Beinhauerová , also: Růžena Beinhauer, b. Dostálová, (born September 23, 1912 in Mährisch Ostrau , Austria-Hungary , † May 16, 1968 in Ivančice , Czechoslovakia ), was a Czechoslovak Nordic and Alpine skier, basketball player and rower .

In the 1930s and 1940s she was considered the most successful alpine and Nordic skier in her country, took part in the Winter Olympics in Garmisch-Partenkirchen and two World Ski Championships , won eight Czechoslovak championship titles in alpine skiing, most of them in downhill skiing , three in cross-country skiing as well 24 more in rowing .

Private

Beinhauerová was born as the daughter of the builder František Dostál and his wife Růžena Dostálová. Tichá was born in Moravian Ostrau.

She attended the girls' high school in Slezská Ostrava and studied English , geography and sports at the Masaryk University in Brno . After a short time as a high school and physical education teacher in secondary education, she later worked as a lecturer in physical education at the Pedagogical Faculty of Masaryk University.

On January 3, 1935, she married the ski sportsman and engineer Karl Beinhauer from Brno in the Ostrava district of Witkowitz ( Vítkovice ) . The marriage was (presumably) divorced in 1939. During the occupation of Czechoslovakia, her husband was active as a fighter pilot with the rank of lieutenant as a member of the 313rd RAF fighter squadron of the Czechoslovak army in exile in the resistance against the German Reich .

Růžena Beinhauerová died after a serious illness at the age of 55 in Ivančice near Brno.

Sports career

At the age of 14 she took part in her first cross-country skiing races and stayed true to skiing even during her studies. In 1934 it started for the first time in an alpine descent in the High Tatras and immediately took second place. Due to her talent but also in view of the lack of competition, she was soon ranked as the best skier of the Czechoslovak Ski Association.

As the only representative of her association, she took part in the Alpine Combination at the 1936 Winter Olympics in Garmisch-Partenkirchen . The Czechoslovak squad included Hilde Walter and Trude Möhwald , who belong to the Main Association of German Winter Sports Clubs of the Czechoslovak Republic (HDW) , but both of them were not allowed to compete in the second run due to their deficit in the first slalom run. Beinhauerová finished 22nd in the downhill and 25th in the slalom . In the combination she came in 22nd place.

At the World Ski Championships in Chamonix-Mont-Blanc in 1937 , in a competition weakened by the absence of the teams from Austria , Italy and France , she took 12th place in the downhill, 10th place in the slalom, with this rank being the first top 10 place of a Czechoslovakian athlete at Alpine World Ski Championships and ranked 11th in the Alpine Combined.

In Engelberg in 1938 , she was 18th in downhill skiing, ninth in slalom, ahead of the best female runners from Austria, the USA and Great Britain, and 15th in alpine combined.

Limelight she moved again in the skiing competitions of the 4th International Winter Sports Week of Garmisch-Partenkirchen in February 1940. In the downhill, she was to be the best "foreign" driver fifth behind German Stars Cranz , Resch , Gödl and gardeners . In the slalom and in the alpine combination, she came in sixth place.

During the German occupation , however, their skiing activities were increasingly restricted, and from 1941 they were no longer able to ski. Beinhauerová shifted to the basketball game in AC Arsenal Husovice and pushed the rowing sport operated since 1939 in the Czech rowing club Brno (ČVK Brno, later "Sokol" or "Sparta" Brno).

After the war , she started skiing again, but was part of the Czechoslovak Olympic team for St. Moritz in 1948 but without a commitment and in 1950 achieved her best post-war result with second place in the Czechoslovak championship. After suffering a fracture of her right leg and shoulder in the same year , she retained permanent damage to her leg and was unable to continue her successful skiing career.

She now completely shifted her sporting ambitions to rowing. In various individual disciplines as well as with the female rowing eight of ČVK Brno, she achieved a total of 24 national championship honors. After her career ended in 1957, she successfully trained several future national champions and European competition participants as a trainer in the Brno rowing club and also worked as a functionary and referee for the forerunner of today's Czech rowing association.

Success in skiing

winter Olympics

winter Olympics	competition
winter Olympics	Departure	slalom	Alpine combination
1936 Garmisch-Partenkirchen	(22.)	(25.)	22nd
1948 St. Moritz	replacement	replacement	replacement

Alpine World Ski Championships

Alpine World Ski Championships	competition
Alpine World Ski Championships	Departure	slalom	Alpine combination
1937 Chamonix-Mont-Blanc	12.	10.	11.
1938 Engelberg	18th	9.	15th

swell

Vzpomínka na Růženu Beinhauerovou article from September 22, 2012 on the website of the Czech Rowing Association " Český veslařský svaz "; accessed on November 21, 2017; (in Czech )
Zapomenutá mistryně československého lyžařského sportu article from February 10, 2014 on the website of the Národní muzeum ; accessed on November 22, 2017; (in Czech)
Lucie Swierczekova: Růžena Beinhauerová (1912-1968) short biography and source collection

Individual evidence

↑ Historické kalendárium - September 23, 1912 Entry on the website of the city of Ostrava; accessed on November 22, 2017 (in Czech);
↑ Encyklopedie dějin města Brna - profile osobnosti - Růžena Beinhauerová Entry on the Internetová Encyklopedie dějin Brna page ; accessed on November 22, 2017 (in Czech)
↑ ^a ^b Historické kalendárium - September 23, 1912 Entry on the website of the city of Ostrava; accessed on November 22, 2017 (in Czech)
↑ Encyklopedie dějin města Brna - profile osobnosti - Karel Beinhauer Entry on the Internetová Encyklopedie dějin Brna page ; accessed on November 22, 2017 (in Czech)
↑ Josef Jennewein ran the best time of the day. Christl Cranz won the women's downhill race in: Volks-Zeitung of February 4, 1940, p. 9
↑ Despite the fall of Christl Cranz. Jennewein won the men's competition. in: Volks-Zeitung of February 5, 1940, p. 3

personal data
SURNAME	Beinhauerová, Růžena
ALTERNATIVE NAMES	Beinhauer, Růžena; Beinhauerová, Růža; Dostálová, Růžena (maiden name)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION	Czechoslovak ski racer, cross-country skier, basketball player and rower
DATE OF BIRTH	September 23, 1912
PLACE OF BIRTH	Moravian Ostrau , Crown Land of Bohemia, Austria-Hungary
DATE OF DEATH	May 16, 1968
Place of death	Ivančice , Okres Brno-venkov, Czechoslovakia

[1] Historické kalendárium - September 23, 1912 Entry on the website of the city of Ostrava; accessed on November 22, 2017 (in Czech);

[2] Encyklopedie dějin města Brna - profile osobnosti - Růžena Beinhauerová Entry on the Internetová Encyklopedie dějin Brna page ; accessed on November 22, 2017 (in Czech)

[ostrava.cz-3] Historické kalendárium - September 23, 1912 Entry on the website of the city of Ostrava; accessed on November 22, 2017 (in Czech)

[4] Encyklopedie dějin města Brna - profile osobnosti - Karel Beinhauer Entry on the Internetová Encyklopedie dějin Brna page ; accessed on November 22, 2017 (in Czech)

[5] Josef Jennewein ran the best time of the day. Christl Cranz won the women's downhill race in: Volks-Zeitung of February 4, 1940, p. 9

[6] Despite the fall of Christl Cranz. Jennewein won the men's competition. in: Volks-Zeitung of February 5, 1940, p. 3