Giustina Demetz
Giustina Demetz (* April 27, 1941 in Santa Cristina in Val Gardena, South Tyrol ) is an Italian former Alpine skier. She was particularly successful in the disciplines of downhill and giant slalom.
Biography
In the second half of the 1960s Demetz was by far the most successful alpine skier in Italy. From 1965 to 1969 she won ten Italian league titles in four different disciplines, as many as any other athlete in that time. International, she made her first appearance at the Olympic Winter Games in 1964 in Innsbruck, two years later she was in the discharged in the summer of 1966 World Cup in Chile Portillo Fifth in the combination and sixth in the giant slalom.
From 1967 Demetz took part in the newly created World Cup. She won on 3 March this year the downhill in Sestriere, but had to share the victory with the contemporaneous French Marielle Goitschel. At the end of the season it was clear as the third best female skier in the world. The results of the first World Cup season could not confirm Demetz and she fell into midfield. After failing to qualify for the World Cup 1970, she retired from professional sports.
Achievements
Olympic games
- Innsbruck 1964: 11 Downhill, Giant Slalom 14
- Grenoble 1968: 13 Downhill, Giant Slalom 14
World Championships
- Portillo 1966: 5 combination, 6 Giant Slalom
World Cup
- Season 1967: 9th overall, 3rd exit summary
- 1968/69 season 9 departure rating
- 14 finishes in the top ten, including 1 win:
Other successes
10 Italian league titles:
- Departure: 1965, 1968, 1969
- Giant Slalom: 1965, 1966, 1967, 1968
- Slalom: 1967, 1968
- Combination: 1968