Lina Mittner
Lina Mittner Simmen ( born February 10, 1919 in Chur) is a former Swiss ski racer. It was 1948 in the downhill and the combined two-time Swiss champion and participated in the same year as a member of the Swiss Olympic team at the Winter Games in St. Moritz in part.
Career
Mittner learned at the age of four years in the region Brambruesch skiing. She belonged to the Swiss women's ski club and began her sports career immediately after the end of World War II. In January 1946, she qualified for the Alpine skiing team in Murren Switzerland. At that time it was already their first daughter in the world. The all-rounder went in all three disciplines - downhill, slalom and combined - at the start. In the same year she won the international downhill skiing in Megeve.
The biggest success of her career she succeeded on January 7, 1947, when she decided in Wengen Lauberhorn downhill, the first and only for ladies for themselves. The steep and rapid route was their daring driving style very accommodating and at the end she lay with a time of 4:08 minutes, five seconds ahead of the favorite Frenchwoman Françoise Gignoux. For Mittner this victory meant the final breakthrough of the national elite.
With their success in Megève and Wengen to Mittner had recommended for the beginning of 1947 planned two -month trip to the ski team to North America. After rebuttal of Louis Guisan, President of the Swiss Ski Federation, because of their family ties had to stay at home Mittner.
In the Olympic season of 1948 Mittner confirmed their athletic performance. She was two-time Swiss champion in the downhill and the combined. At the Winter Games in St. Moritz from Grisons domestic competed in downhill and combination, and rounded to the fifth place in the downhill the outstanding results of the Swiss Women's National Team from.
After the end of the games she explained her resignation for family reasons from the national team because they could not unite in anticipation of her second daughter, family and sports. However, the alpine racing they remained connected to 1982 as an arbiter of the Swiss Ski Federation and as a technical delegate of the World Ski Federation ( FIS ).
Into old age Mittner was on skis untwerwegs. It was not until 2001 forced a knee surgery to put the skis in the basement.
Statistics
Olympic Winter Games
- St. Moritz 1948: 5 exit 14 combination
Swiss Championships
- Swiss champion in the downhill and in the Alpine combined 1948