Antoinette Meyer

Antoinette Josefa Clara Meyer ( born June 19, 1920 in Hospental, † 19 July, 2010 Thun and married Molitor Meyer) was a Swiss ski racer. Her greatest success was winning a silver medal at the Winter Olympics in 1948. She was the wife of Karl Molitor.

Biography

Meyer grew up with two siblings in Hospental in the Canton of Uri, where her parents ran the Hotel Meyerhof. After three years of primary school in Hospental she visited the girls' boarding school in Ingenbohl in Schwyz. In order to perfect their French language skills, followed by three years in the girls' boarding school in Châtel -Saint- Denis. Finally, she went two years in an institute in Varese to learn Italian. Meyer also spoke English and worked every summer in his parents' hotel. This was closed in the winter, so you have much time left for the slalom training.

The Swiss ski federation offered Meyer in 1942 because of their good performance at a training course in Davos, where she met her future husband, the skier Karl Molitor. Meyer was inducted into the national team and won from 1943 to 1945 a total of four Swiss champion titles in downhill, slalom and combined. In 1944 she participated in a Swiss-Swedish Skitreffen in Östersund. In 1947, she traveled with a delegation to the United States to deny numerous races and next to make advertising for tourism in Switzerland. At the Olympic Winter Games 1948, held in St. Moritz, Meyer won the silver medal in the slalom, with half a second behind the American Gretchen Fraser. The alpine ski races counted as World Championships, which is why she also received a World Championship silver medal.

With this success, Meyer ended her skiing career. On November 24 1948 she married Karl Molitor and then moved around to Wengen, where she lived for the next six decades. In 1950 a son. Together with her ​​parents and her husband led Meyer, a sports shop, which also included a branch in Interlaken. She is responsible in particular belonged to the purchase of Skimodeartikel. 1987 gave the couple the sports shop to the son and the daughter. Meyer played golf in their spare time and drove to 2007 also ski. She died at the age of 90 years in a nursing home in Thun.

Achievements

• Winter Olympics 1948: 2nd slalom, downhill 11
• Four Swiss Championship (departure in 1943, Slalom 1944 and 1945, combination 1945)