Evi Mittermaier
Evi - Brundobler Mittermeier ( born February 16, 1953 in Munich) is a German former alpine skier. It belonged in the second half of the 1970s, to the best Abfahrerinnen, won two World Cup races and one was German champion. She is the younger sister of the double Olympic champion Rosi Mittermeier and Mittermeier Heidi, who was also a ski racer.
Career
Mid -1970s Mittermaierstrasse succeeded after several violations of the connection to the top. In the 1974 World Cup in St. Moritz they finished 14th in the downhill and just a year later, she won on January 24, 1975 in seventh place in the departure of Innsbruck the first points in the World Cup. A week later, as she reached the Ninth combination of Chamonix her best World Cup result in this discipline. Her breakthrough came in the 1975/76 season when they won d'Ampezzo first German descent in a World Cup Skiing on December 16, 1975 in Cortina. Twelve days earlier she had taken her first World Cup points in the giant slalom in Val d'Isere.
At the Olympic Winter Games in Innsbruck in 1976, which were also counted as World Championship, drove the 22 -year-old ranked 13th in the downhill and finished eighth in the giant slalom. However, they stood like so many times before completely overshadowed by her sister Rosi, who won a silver medal and three gold. At the end of the winter, it achieved a fifth place in the giant slalom at Mont Sainte -Anne her best World Cup result in this discipline.
Following the resignation of her sister Rosi Mittermeier Evi was in the 1976/77 season the most successful German in World Cup Skiing. Your best results they achieved from this winter exclusively in the downhill. With three second places in the last three races of the season they came fourth in the downhill World Cup and eleventh place their best result in the World Cup. The following winter she celebrated on 18 January 1978 the silver jug race in Bad Gastein their second World Cup victory and reached with a further two podiums again ranked fourth in the downhill World Cup. In the 1978 World Cup in Garmisch -Partenkirchen, she took sixth place in the downhill.
In winter 1978/79 Mittermaierstrasse reached on the downhill in Val d'Isere and Les Diablerets each second place and thus their final podium places. With the sixth place in the downhill World Cup it was the third time in a row the best German Abfahrerin. In the season 1979/80 they still reached in five of the seven descents top 10 results, with them as each seventh in the two runs of Pfronten won the last World Cup points in January. Her last major event was the 1980 Winter Olympics in Lake Placid, where she took the same time as the Swiss Doris de Agostini 17 exit rank. 1980 ended Evi Mittermaierstrasse her career. In 1990, she said, as Technical Delegates for the FIS by casting vote a women's World Cup race in the Super -G in Kitzbuhel from, which should be held for the 50th anniversary of the Ski Club Kitzbühel. Later she worked as Skitrainerin and spokeswoman for the Ski Chiemgau.
Personal
Evi Mittermaierstrasse is married to a former doctor and has three children ( born 1985, 1986 and 1991).
Sporting successes
Olympic Winter Games
- Innsbruck 1976: 8 Giant Slalom, Downhill 13
- Lake Placid 1980: 17 Departure
World Championships
- St. Moritz 1974: 14 Departure
- Innsbruck 1976: 8 Giant Slalom, Downhill 13
- Garmisch -Partenkirchen 1978: 6 Departure
- Lake Placid 1980: 17 Departure
World Cup
- 1975/76 season: 8 downhill World Cup
- 1976/ 77: 4 downhill World Cup
- 1977/ 78: 4 downhill World Cup
- 1978/79 season: 6 Downhill World Cup
- 1979/ 80: 9 Downhill World Cup
9 podiums, including two victories:
European Cup
- 1977/ 78: 3rd exit summary
German Championships
- German champion in downhill in 1976