Rosi Mittermaier, who won downhill and slalom gold medals at the 1976 Winter Olympics and narrowly missed a sweep of all three women's Alpine skiing events at the Games, has died. She was 72.
FILE - German alpine ski racer Rosi Mittermaier shows two gold medals and one silver, she won at the Winter Olympic Games at the Olympic village in Innsbruck, Austria, February 15, 1976. Rosi Mittermaier, who won downhill and slalom gold medals at the 1976 Winter Olympics and narrowly missed a sweep of all three women's Alpine skiing events at the Games, has died. She was 72.
FILE - German alpine ski racer Rosi Mittermaier shows two gold medals and one silver, she won at the Winter Olympic Games at the Olympic village in Innsbruck, Austria, February 15, 1976. Rosi Mittermaier, who won downhill and slalom gold medals at the 1976 Winter Olympics and narrowly missed a sweep of all three women's Alpine skiing events at the Games, has died. She was 72.
GARMISCH-PARTENKIRCHEN, Germany — Rosi Mittermaier, who won downhill and slalom gold medals at the 1976 Winter Olympics and narrowly missed a sweep of all three women’s Alpine skiing events at the Games, has died. She was 72. German news agency dpa cited a statement from Mittermaier’s family that she died peacefully on Wednesday “following a serious illness.”She nearly became the first woman to win three Alpine skiing gold medals at the same Olympics but missed out by .12 seconds to Canada’s Kathy Kreiner in the last event, the giant slalom, and took the silver.
Mittermaier’s Olympic successes made her a celebrity in Germany, and in a 2020 interview with dpa she recalled her postman’s difficulties delivering 27,000 letters of fan mail to her parents’ mountain home in a single month. Mittermaier worked as a TV sports commentator and was well known in Germany for her support of charitable causes.
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