Trude Jochum-Beiser

Trude Jochum-Beiser
nation	Austria
birthday	2nd September 1927 (age 92)
place of birth	Lech am Arlberg , Austria
Career
discipline	Downhill , combined , slalom , giant slalom
society	Ski Club Arlberg
status	resigned
End of career	1952
Medal table
Olympic games 2 × 1 × 0 × World championships 3 × 2 × 0 ×
winter Olympics silver St. Moritz 1948 Departure gold St. Moritz 1948 combination gold Oslo 1952 Departure  Alpine World Ski Championships silver St. Moritz 1948 Departure gold St. Moritz 1948 combination silver Aspen 1950 Giant slalom gold Aspen 1950 Departure gold Oslo 1952 Departure

Trude Jochum-Beiser (born September 2, 1927 in Lech am Arlberg ; born as Trude Beiser ) is a former Austrian ski racer . In the late 1940s and early 1950s, she was one of the best female ski racers in the world. In 1948 she became Olympic champion in combined, four years later she won this title in downhill.

Career

Trude Beiser grew up with ten siblings, with whom she had to share one pair of skis as a child. At the end of the 1930s she was accepted into the Ski Club Arlberg , where her talent was specifically promoted and she soon made contact with the Austrian top. After the Second World War she was accepted into the national team of the ÖSV . Since the Austrian racers were still excluded from FIS races in the first post-war winter, they could mostly only start in national competitions. Her first victory in an international race came in 1946 in the Gamperney Derby in Grabs , where she was officially only rated in the junior class.

In the 1946/47 season Beiser was able to win numerous races, including the downhill of the SDS races in Grindelwald and a downhill in Seefeld . At the prestigious Arlberg-Kandahar races in Mürren , she won the slalom and came second in downhill and combined. At the beginning of the 1947/48 season she won the downhill, the slalom and the combination at the West Cup in Lech, but subsequently had to struggle with health problems. By the time of the season's climax, however, she found her top form again and celebrated her first major success at the 1948 Winter Olympics in St. Moritz . She won the silver medal behind the Swiss Hedy Schlunegger in the downhill run, which was also part of the combination . Eighth place in the combi slalom was enough for her to win the gold medal in the combination in front of the American Gretchen Fraser .

After the 1948 season, Beiser ended her career for the time being. She married Alois Jochum in 1948 and gave birth to her first child, son Alfred, a year later. After a one-year break, she returned to racing in the winter of 1949/50. In the beginning she did not achieve top results, but she found her old form again by the 1950 World Cup in Aspen . In the giant slalom she won the silver medal behind Dagmar Rom , and four days later she was downhill world champion ahead of Erika Mahringer .

After this winter, Jochum-Beiser returned to private life to devote more time to her young family. In the winter of 1951/52 she was encouraged to make a comeback again, winning the downhill, the slalom and the combined in Lech as well as the downhill in Grindelwald at the beginning of the season and was once again among the medal contenders at the 1952 Winter Olympics . Although she did not achieve top positions in the slalom and giant slalom in Oslo , she won the gold medal in the descent with almost a second advantage over the German Annemarie Buchner .

At the end of the Olympic season, Jochum-Beiser finally ended her sporting career, but took part in races in her home country for a few more years. In recognition of her great achievements, she was named Austrian Sportswoman of the Year in 1952 and in 1996 received the Golden Decoration of Honor for Services to the Republic of Austria . She worked as a ski instructor in Lech for several years and opened the Café Olympia with her husband , which is now run by her son Alfred Jochum. With her two gold medals and one silver medal, she is still one of the most successful Austrian ski racers at the Olympic Games.

Sporting successes

winter Olympics

• St. Moritz 1948 : 1st combination, 2nd descent
• Oslo 1952 : 1st descent, 8th slalom, 11th giant slalom

World championships

• St. Moritz 1948 : 1st combination, 2nd descent
• Aspen 1950 : 1st descent, 2nd giant slalom, 7th slalom
• Oslo 1952 : 1st descent, 8th slalom, 11th giant slalom

Awards

• 1952: Austrian sportswoman of the year
• 1996: Gold Medal for Services to the Republic of Austria
• Austrian athletes of the century - women, 5th place
• 2000: Golden Ring of Honor of the Lech community for special merits

literature

• Austrian Ski Association (Ed.): Austrian Ski Stars from A – Z. Ablinger & Garber, Hall in Tirol 2008, ISBN 978-3-9502285-7-1 , pp. 184-185.

Web links

• Trude Jochum-Beiser in the database of the International Ski Federation (English)
• Trude Jochum-Beiser in the database of Ski-DB (English)
• Trude Jochum-Beiser in the Sports-Reference database (English; archived from the original )
• Entry on Trude Jochum-Beiser in the Austria Forum  (in the AEIOU Austria Lexicon )
• Café Olympia