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Created: 01/11/2023 09:42 am
Von: Klaus-Maria Mehr
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Rosi Mittermaier died at the age of 72 following a serious illness. All of Bavaria mourns the loss of its “Gold-Rosi”. We have compiled their most important places of activity in pictures.
1 / 24 Rosi Mittermaier, the most down-to-earth and perhaps most planned ski superstar in Bavaria. A life in pictures. © Imag/dpa/dpa
2 / 24 Rosi Mittermaier grew up in the middle of the Winkelmoos-Alm, a widely ramified alpine pasture area and high plateau in southern Upper Bavaria (community of Reit im Winkl). Her father, a businessman and innkeeper, is a state-certified ski instructor. He demands a lot from little Rosi early on. In two skiing accidents at the age of twelve, she first broke an ankle, shortly before it healed her lower leg on the same leg and was unable to ski for several months. But just a year later she took part in the youth championships and trained for the national team for the first time in 1965. © Munich Mercury
3 / 24 In action: Rosi Mittermaier training before her greatest triumph on the Axamer Lizum in the Stubaital in 1976. © Münchner Merkur
4 / 24 Her greatest triumph: Rosie Mittermaier following her downhill run at the Innsbruck Winter Olympics in February 1976. There Mittermaier won a medal in all three alpine skiing competitions: on February 8, she won the downhill race with a half-second lead over Brigitte Totschnig and was the first German ski racer to win an Olympic gold medal since Heidi Biebl in 1960 – Mittermaier had never won a downhill race in the World Cup before. Three days later, she also won the slalom with the fastest time in the second run, following her teammate Pamela Behr had initially been in the lead. In the final giant slalom on February 13, she took second place, twelve hundredths of a second behind Canadian Kathy Kreiner. © Munich Mercury
5 / 24 Two golds in the downhill and one silver in the giant slalom: According to her own statements, Rosi Mittermaier had exceptionally trained intensively in the summer for these Olympic Games in order to “finally achieve more” in view of the approaching end of her career. © Imago
6 / 24 Because she shines so beautifully, here’s another medal photo. © dpa
7 / 24 Mittermaier with his husband Neureuther skiing. © Munich Mercury
8 / 24 The love of her life, Christian Neureuther, also a ski racer, here at the 1974 Alpine World Ski Championships in St. Moritz, married Rosi Mittermaier in 1980. © dpa
9 / 24 Rosi Mittermaier and Christian Neureuther at their wedding in 1980. © Imago
10 / 24 Here the two enjoy their honeymoon in the Dominican Republic in 1980. Rosi Mittermaier was a passionate diver, parachutist and surfer. In the spring of 1973 she injured herself while surfing in Hawaii and thus missed the end of the season and the possible victory in the slalom world cup. © Imago
11 / 24 A few years later, Christian Neureuther and Rosi Mittermaier had two children: Felix and Amelie Neureuther. © Imago
12 / 24 Here with their children Felix, who just won the bronze medal in the slalom at the 2017 Alpine World Ski Championships in St. Moritz, and Amelie, a successful fashion designer. © Sammy Minkoff/Imago
13 / 24 Rosi Mittermaier with her husband Christian Neureuther in her third passion besides diving and skiing: skydiving. © Imago
14 / 24 Long following her career ended, Rosi Mittermaier was always a popular part of the Bavarian public. Here in conversation with the then mayor of Munich, Christian Ude. Our Merkur photographer Klaus Haag took the photo with the Garmisch Alps in the background. © Klaus Haag
15 / 24 Rosi Mittermaier in Bonn in 1997 when she was appointed the first German “Ambassador for Sport, Tolerance and Fair Play”. Incidentally, Mittermaier was a sports teacher in her other life. © dpa
16 / 24 Rosi Mittermaier and her husband were among those who made Nordic Walking big in Germany, here at a book launch at the Chinese Tower in Munich. © Sigi Jantz
17 / 24 Eternally connected to the mountains: Rosi Mittermaier on a tour in the Alps. © tz
18 / 24 Rosi Mittermaier with her friend and companion Markus Wasmaier at the presentation of the Bavarian Order of Merit in the Maximilianeum. © Marcus sleep
19 / 24 To have fun for everyone: Rosi Mittermaier at the celebration of the 70th of the Bogner company in a historical ski outfit including wooden skis. © Jantz
20 / 24 To have fun for everyone: Rosi Mittermaier at the celebration of the 70th of the Bogner company in a historical ski outfit including wooden skis. © Sigi Jantz
21 / 24 Or like here baking apple strudel in her home in the Garmisch-Partenkirchen area. © Imago
22 / 24 Here with the result and her husband. © Imago
23 / 24 Rosi Mittermaier was involved in numerous charitable projects: here as patron of the nationwide children’s rheumatism foundation with children suffering from rheumatism in Garmisch-Partenkirchen. © dpa
24 / 24 Always good for a smile: Rosi Mittermaier on her 70th birthday. After that it became quiet around the Bavarian superstar. Rosi Mittermaier died on January 4th following a long illness. © Angelika Warmuth/dpa
