Rosi Mittermaier dead: Bavaria mourns Skistar – her life in pictures
Created: 01/05/2023, 12:10 p.m
By: Klaus-Maria Mehr
Rosi Mittermaier died at the age of 72 after 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 / 13Rosi Mittermaier, the most down-to-earth and perhaps most planned ski superstar in Bavaria.
A life in pictures.
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2 / 13Rosi Mittermaier grew up in the middle of the Winkelmoos-Alm, a widely branched mountain 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.
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3 / 13Her greatest triumph: Rosie Mittermaier after her downhill run at the Winter Olympics in Innsbruck in February 1976. There Mittermaier won a medal in all three alpine skiing competitions: on February 8, she decided the downhill run with a half-second lead over Brigitte Totschnig for herself 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, after 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.
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4 / 13Two gold in the downhill and one silver in the giant slalom: According to her own statement, Rosi Mittermaier had exceptionally trained intensively in the summer for these Olympic Games in order to "finally achieve more" in view of her approaching end of her career.
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5 / 13Because she shines so beautifully, here's another medal photo.
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6 / 13Mittermaier with his husband Neureuther skiing.
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7 / 13The 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
8 / 13Here 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
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9 / 13Rosi Mittermaier with her husband Christian Neureuther with her third passion besides diving and skiing: parachuting.
© Imago
10 / 13Rosi Mittermaier was always a popular part of the Bavarian public long after her career ended.
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
11 / 13Rosi 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.
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12 / 13Rosi 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.
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13 / 13Always 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 after a long illness.
© Angelika Warmuth/dpa
