Rosemarie "Rosi" Mittermaier-Neureuther (born 5 August 1950, Reit im Winkl

Reit im Winkl

Reit im Winkl is a small village in the southeastern part of Bavaria, Germany, in the Traunstein district. It is situated southwest of Ruhpolding in the Alps. The village area has borders with two states of Austria, Tyrol and Salzburg. The small village of Kössen in Tyrol is the next village...

, Bavaria

Bavaria

Bavaria, formally the Free State of Bavaria is a state of Germany, located in the southeast of Germany. With an area of , it is the largest state by area, forming almost 20% of the total land area of Germany...

, Germany

Germany

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) is a former alpine ski racer

Alpine skiing

Alpine skiing is the sport of sliding down snow-covered hills on skis with fixed-heel bindings. Alpine skiing can be contrasted with skiing using free-heel bindings: Ski mountaineering and nordic skiing – such as cross-country; ski jumping; and Telemark. In competitive alpine skiing races four...

. She won two gold medals and one silver at the 1976 Winter Olympics

Alpine skiing at the Winter Olympics

Alpine skiing has been contested at every Winter Olympics since 1936, when a combined event was held in Garmisch-Partenkirchen, Germany. From 1948–80, the Winter Olympics also served as the World Championships in Olympic years...

 in Innsbruck

Innsbruck

- Main sights :- Buildings :*Golden Roof*Kaiserliche Hofburg *Hofkirche with the cenotaph of Maximilian I, Holy Roman Emperor*Altes Landhaus...

, Austria

Austria

Austria , officially the Republic of Austria , is a landlocked country of roughly 8.4 million people in Central Europe. It is bordered by the Czech Republic and Germany to the north, Slovakia and Hungary to the east, Slovenia and Italy to the south, and Switzerland and Liechtenstein to the...

, becoming the most successful athlete there along with Raisa Smetanina

Raisa Smetanina

Raisa Petrovna Smetanina is a former Soviet/Russian Nordic skiing champion. She is the first woman in history to win ten Winter Olympic medals . Smetanina took part in five Olympics, representing the USSR team four times and the Unified Team once...

 of Soviet Union, and earning her the nickname of Gold-Rosi within Germany (then West Germany

West Germany

West Germany is the common English, but not official, name for the Federal Republic of Germany or FRG in the period between its creation in May 1949 to German reunification on 3 October 1990....

).

Mittermaier made her World Cup

Alpine skiing World Cup

The FIS Alpine Ski World Cup is the top international circuit of alpine skiing competitions, launched in 1966 by a group of ski racing friends and experts which included French journalist Serge Lang and the alpine ski team directors from France and the USA...

 debut in the inaugural season of 1967

1967 Alpine Skiing World Cup

The first season of World Cup races began in early January in West Germany and concluded in late March in the United States. Jean-Claude Killy of France dominated the men's competition, winning each of the three disciplines and the overall title...

 at age 16, won her first World Cup race two seasons later, and retired from international competition following the very successful 1976

1976 Alpine Skiing World Cup

The 10th World Cup season began in December 1975 in France and concluded in March 1976 in Canada. Ingemar Stenmark of Sweden won the first of his three consecutive overall titles...

 season, at age 25. In addition to the overall World Cup title, she also won the season title in slalom

Slalom skiing

Slalom is an alpine skiing discipline, involving skiing between poles spaced much closer together than in Giant Slalom, Super-G or Downhill, thereby causing quicker and shorter turns.- Origins :...

 and combined

Alpine skiing combined

Combined is an alpine skiing event. Although not technically a discipline of its own, it is sometimes referred to as a fifth alpine discipline, along with downhill, super G, giant slalom, and slalom.-Traditional & Super-Combined:...

 in 1976.

Today, she works for several charities and occasionally as a commentator for German television for major sporting events. She is married to Christian Neureuther, winner of six World Cup slalom races, and is the mother of Felix Neureuther

Felix Neureuther

Felix Neureuther is a German alpine ski racer on the World Cup circuit.Neureuther was born at Garmisch-Partenkirchen, Bavaria...

, a World Cup ski racer for Germany.

Season titles

Season	Discipline
1976 1976 Alpine Skiing World Cup The 10th World Cup season began in December 1975 in France and concluded in March 1976 in Canada. Ingemar Stenmark of Sweden won the first of his three consecutive overall titles...	Overall
1976 1976 Alpine Skiing World Cup The 10th World Cup season began in December 1975 in France and concluded in March 1976 in Canada. Ingemar Stenmark of Sweden won the first of his three consecutive overall titles...	Slalom
1976 1976 Alpine Skiing World Cup The 10th World Cup season began in December 1975 in France and concluded in March 1976 in Canada. Ingemar Stenmark of Sweden won the first of his three consecutive overall titles...	Combined

Individual victories

Date	Location	Race
16 January 1969	Schruns Schruns Schruns is the main village of the Montafon valley in Vorarlberg, Austria, in the Bludenz district.In the west, one can see one of the most popular hiking and climbing mountains in Vorarlberg, the Zimba, which is called the "Vorarlberger Matterhorn"....	Slalom
14 March 1970	Voss Voss is a municipality in Hordaland county, Norway. It is part of the traditional district of Voss. The administrative center of the municipality is the village of Vossevangen....	Slalom
2 February 1973	Schruns	Slalom
27 February 1974	Abetone Abetone Abetone is a comune in the Province of Pistoia in the Italian region Tuscany, located about 80 km northwest of Florence and about 49 km northwest of Pistoia...	Slalom
8 March 1974	Vysoké Tatry Vysoké Tatry Vysoké Tatry can be:*the Slovak name of the High Tatras mountains*the name of a town in these mountains, see Vysoké Tatry...	Slalom
13 December 1974	Cortina d'Ampezzo Cortina d'Ampezzo Cortina d'Ampezzo is a town and comune in the southern Alps located in Veneto, a region in Northern Italy. Located in the heart of the Dolomites in an alpine valley, it is a popular winter sport resort known for its ski-ranges, scenery, accommodations, shops and après-ski scene...	Slalom
22 January 1976	Bad Gastein Bad Gastein Bad Gastein is a spa town in the Austrian state of Salzburg, situated at the northern rim of the Hohe Tauern national park. It has 5,838 inhabitants. The name "Bad" means "spa", reflecting the town's history as a health resort. It is located at the head of the Gastein valley, about 1,000 metres ...	Slalom
5 March 1976	Copper Mountain Copper Mountain (Colorado) Copper Mountain is a mountain located in Summit County, Colorado, about west of Denver on Interstate 70. Opened in late 1972, its most notable use is as a ski resort, owned and operated by Intrawest until Dec...	Giant Slalom
6 March 1976	Copper Mountain	Slalom

External links

• FIS-ski.com - race results - top ten finishes - Rosi Mittermaier
• FIS-ski.com - World Cup season standings - Rosi Mittermaier - 1967-76
• Ski-DB.com - Results - Rosi Mittermaier