Rosi Mittermaier dead: Bavaria mourns Skistar – her life in pictures
Created: 05/01/2023 22:41
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 / 24Rosi Mittermaier, the most down-to-earth and perhaps most planned ski superstar in Bavaria.
A life in pictures.
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2 / 24Rosi 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 / 24In action: Rosi Mittermaier training before her greatest triumph on the Axamer Lizum in the Stubaital in 1976. © Münchner Merkur
4 / 24Her 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 race with a half-second advantage 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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5 / 24Two gold 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 her approaching end of her career.
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6 / 24Because she shines so beautifully, here's another medal photo.
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7 / 24Mittermaier with his husband Neureuther skiing.
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8 / 24The 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
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9 / 24Rosi Mittermaier and Christian Neureuther at their wedding in 1980. © Imago
10 / 24Here 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.
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11 / 24A few years later, Christian Neureuther and Rosi Mittermaier had two children: Felix and Amelie Neureuther.
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12 / 24Here with their children Felix, who just won the bronze medal in slalom at the 2017 Alpine World Ski Championships in St. Moritz, and Amelie, a successful fashion designer.
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13 / 24Rosi Mittermaier with her husband Christian Neureuther with her third passion besides diving and skiing: parachuting.
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14 / 24Rosi 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
15 / 24Rosi 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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16 / 24Rosi 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 / 24Eternally connected to the mountains: Rosi Mittermaier on a tour in the Alps.
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18 / 24Rosi Mittermaier with her friend and companion Markus Wasmaier at the presentation of the Bavarian Order of Merit in the Maximilianeum.
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19 / 24Fun for everyone: Rosi Mittermaier at the celebration of the 70th of the Bogner company in a historical ski outfit including wooden skis.
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20 / 24Fun 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 / 24Or like here baking apple strudel in her home in the Garmisch-Partenkirchen area.
© Imago
22 / 24Here with the result and her husband.
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23 / 24Rosi 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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24 / 24Always 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