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Swiss ski idol is dead: companions stunned - "Was the most lovable person"

2020-11-28T10:51:41.761Z


The former Swiss ski star Doris de Agostini is dead. The ski legend was only 62 years old after a brief serious illness.


The former Swiss ski star Doris de Agostini is dead. The ski legend was only 62 years old after a brief serious illness.

  • The

    Swiss ski legend Doris de Agostini died

    at the age of

    62

    .

  • The downer ended

    her career

    at the

    height of

    her career

    in

    1983

    at the age of only

    25

    .

  • Winter sports

    mourn

    de Agostini and

    ennoble

    the

    idol

    .

Airolo -

Doris de Agostini is dead

.

The Swiss ski legend died of a serious illness, the Swiss ski association

Swiss-Ski announced

on Sunday.

She was 62 years old.

She only found out about her serious

illness

in the fall

, as reported by the Swiss tabloid

Blick

.

“This is the most important race of my life.

I have to fight hard now, ”said

de Agostini

after the diagnosis.

It

is not known

which

illness

the ex-ski star suffered from.

Swiss ski star is dead - at the peak, Doris de Agostini resigned

The star of the

Ticino rose

as a

17-year-old

when she sensationally won the

World Cup downhill in Bad Gastein

.

The downhill specialist from Airolo won a total of eight races between 1976 and 1983.

De Agostini

took part in the Olympic Games twice in Innsbruck in 1976 and in Lake Placid in 1980 and won

the bronze medal

in the downhill

at the 1978 World Championships in

Garmisch-Partenkirchen

.

In 1983, at the age of 25, she resigned at the

peak

- as the

winner of the Downhill World Cup

.

In the same year she was also voted

Swiss Sportswoman of the Year

.

(1/2) Swiss-Ski mourns the loss of one of the greatest female racers in Swiss skiing history.

Doris De Agostini died today after a short, serious illness at the age of 62.

- SwissSkiTeam (@swissskiteam) November 22, 2020

After de Agostini's death - Swiss skiing legends mourn

"For us she was 'La Doris', the

ski princess

", she ennobled the Swiss ski legend

Bernhard Russi

in

Blick

.

The downhill lady impressed despite her almost delicate prerequisites.

"We were all the more fascinated by Doris when she

flirted

with the element of

snow

, when she mastered the then still restless racing slopes with her incredible feeling for speed and her fighting spirit at the limit," said

Russi

.

De Agostini

was always considered modest and popular in winter sports, never wanted to be a star.

"She was the most

lovable person

you can imagine," recalls

Hanni Wenzel

, the Liechtenstein member of the Swiss ski team, who often

shared a room

with

de Agostini

, "and she was like that with everyone."

The overall World Cup winner from 2016

Lara Gut-Behrami also

mourns

de Agostini

.

"I was very lucky to get to know her as a person", said the 26-time World Cup winner about

La Regione.

I grew up a little with her and Michela Figini.

Both went with my father and my uncle, ”recalls Gut-Behrami.

"Sometimes she waited at the finish line at the end of my races to

give me a hug

." (Ck)

Source: merkur

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