Erna Steuri

Erna Steuri ( born April 22, 1917 in Grindelwald, † November 25, 2001 ibid ) was a Swiss ski racer. She scored in the second half of the 1930s several victories in major international races and won at the World Cup 1938 bronze medal in the slalom.

Career

Getting bigger successes achieved Erna Steuri in 1935 with the SDS - race in Grindelwald, when she was the winner of the downhill and the combined second and the slalom. She was thus the first and only locals who won this 1932, first held in 1967 and integrated into the World Cup race of the Swiss women's ski club. The next year, she participated in the 1936 Winter Olympics in Garmisch -Partenkirchen in part and achieved third place in the slalom and fourth in the downhill in fourth place in the combination - only in this Olympic medals were awarded. Two weeks later, they were each fifth in slalom and in the combination and sixth in the downhill at the World Championships in Innsbruck. In addition, it reached 1936 behind Gratia Schimmelpennick second place in the departure of the Arlberg - Kandahar at St. Anton am Arlberg. The next year, Erna decided Steuri the departure of the Arlberg - Kandahar race in Murren before the German Christl Cranz for themselves. In slalom and combined they were each behind Cranz second. Previously, she had already won the downhill, the slalom and the combination of the discharged in Grindelwald British Open Ski Championships 1937. At 31, Great Swiss ski race in 1937 in Les Diablerets Steuri won the departure of junior and was third in the slalom. At the World Cup 1937 in Chamonix, they scored with two fifth places in the downhill and the combination and eighth in the slalom similar results as in the previous year. Again two fifth places in the downhill and combined they occupied at the World Cup 1938 in Engelberg. In the slalom, however, she reached the third place, which they won their only World Championship medal behind Christl Cranz and its Swiss compatriot Nini von Arx - Zogg. At 32 Swiss ski race in Wengen 1938 Steuri was each second behind Cranz in the downhill and slalom Senior I and others in the combination. In March 1938, she won a three-day meeting in Sestriere exit and early April, the downhill and slalom races in the international Abetone.

Numerous victories reach Erna Steuri also in 1939. During 33 Great Swiss ski race in underwater she was champion in the downhill, slalom and Alpine combined. Successfully she was in that same year, at two competitions in the United States - the Harriman Cup at Sun Valley and the U.S. Championships on Mount Hood in Portland, Oregon - to which the Swiss Damenskiteam was invited. When Harriman Cup on 25 and 26 March Steuri won each case before her compatriot Nini von Arx - Zogg in the downhill, slalom and combination. A week later, she won the U.S. Championships in the open class the slalom and the combination. On the descent, she was behind Elizabeth Woolsey Second. At the World Cup 1939 in Zakopane, however, she went only to tenth place in the slalom. In the descent - and therefore also in the combination rating - different from them. In 1940 Steuri was in Gstaad Swiss champion in the downhill and in Davos Parsenn winner of the Derby.

Then Erna Steuri announced her departure from ski racing. She ran until 1948 the eight years earlier called into being children of the group Grindelwald Ski School, but took despite resignation also occasionally still regular competitor. She won the 36th Swiss ski race in 1942 in her home town of Grindelwald, the departure of the seniors class I, was beaten in the championship but the junior Hedy Schlunegger by six seconds. In the slalom, she was behind Verena Fuchs also second.

Achievements

Olympic Winter Games

  • Garmisch -Partenkirchen 1936: 4 combination ( 3 Slalom, 4th exit )

World Championships

  • Innsbruck 1936: 5 Slalom, 5 combination, 6th departure
  • Chamonix 1937: 5th exit, 5 combination, 8 Slalom
  • Engelberg 1938: 3rd slalom, downhill 5, 5 combination
  • Zakopane 1939: 10 Slalom, excreted in the downhill

Other successes

  • Victory in the downhill and the combined SDS- race 1935
  • Victory in the downhill of the Arlberg - Kandahar Race 1937
  • Victory in the downhill, slalom and combined at the British Open Ski Championships 1937
  • Swiss champion in downhill, slalom and combined in 1939
  • Victory in slalom and combined at the U.S. championships in open class 1939
  • Victory at the Harriman Cup 1939 in downhill, slalom and combination
  • Swiss champion in the downhill in 1940
  • Victory in Parsenn Derby 1940
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