Ida Schöpfer

Ida Creator ( born October 29, 1929 in Fluhli ) is a former Swiss ski racer. She is ten times Swiss champion. In 1954, she was double world champion in the downhill and the combined.

Creator comes from a long-established mountain peasant family from the canton of Lucerne. For the first time on skis she was at the age of four years. Later was the way to school, she lay back on skis, everyday training. Your first race she won in 1938 at the age of nine. In the following years Creator collected numerous titles at the regional Amtsskimeisterschaften and the Central Swiss Championships.

At national level, Creator made the first time in 1948 attracted attention when she the combination of slalom Juniors decided at the Swiss championship. The following year, she made ​​the jump to the Swiss National Ski Team. In the early 1950s she became then the most successful driver of the Swiss ski racing. Between 1951 and 1954 she won ten titles at the national championships: 1951 in the giant slalom in 1952 in Downhill, Slalom and in combination, in 1953 in the giant slalom, in the downhill and in combination, in 1954 in the giant slalom, slalom and in combination.

This national dominance lagged somewhat behind the international success initially. Despite some notable successes as third place in the downhill race of the SDS in 1949 and second place in the giant slalom at the pre-Olympic competitions in 1951 at Holmenkollen creator could it not initially to lead the Swiss Damenskirennsport from its international second-tier level. At the Olympic Winter Games in Oslo, she was one of the top-ranked Swiss women with a tenth place in the downhill and 16th place in the giant slalom.

That changed at the World Ski Championships 1954 in Åre, Sweden. Originally wanted the Swiss Ski Federation from financial considerations, send no women's team to the Championships. As creators threatened to never wanting to go for the association back to the start, the officials changed their attitude and let her and her teammate Madeleine Berthod by train travel to Sweden. The World Cup was the climax in Creator's career. First, they distanced in downhill skiing favored Austrian Trude spills around a tenth of a second and overtook the first world title for the Swiss women's team since 1935. Having been on their parade route, the giant slalom, only Eighth, she won the slalom with a superb second run the silver medal. With her performance, she won the slalom and the combined score well ahead of her compatriot Madeleine Berthod and became double world champion.

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Olympic Winter Games 1952 in Oslo:

1952 Winter Olympics FIS Alpine World Ski Championships 1954 Trude Klecker Paula Wiesinger Christl Cranz Evelyn Pinching Lisa Resch Hedy Schlunegger Lucile Wheeler Heidi Biebl Christl Haas Marielle Goitschel Olga Pall Gerry Sorensen Michela Figini Maria Walliser Petra Kronberger Kate Pace Picabo Street Hilary Lindh Michaela Dorfmeister Marion Rolland Anne Heggtveit Nancy Greene Fabienne Serrat Erika Hess Tamara McKinney Pernilla Wiberg Kathrin Zettel Anna Fenninger
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