Trude Beiser
Trude Jochum - Beiser ( born September 2, 1927 in Lech am Arlberg, born Trude Beiser ) is a former Austrian alpine skier. The late 1940s and early 1950s, she was one of the best ski racers in the world. It was 1948 Olympic champion in the combination, four years later she won this title in the downhill.
Career
Trude Beiser grew up with ten brothers and sisters, with which it comprises a single pair of skis had to share as a child. End of the 1930s she was admitted to the Ski Club Arlberg, where you deliberately fostered her talent and she soon found following the Austrian top. After the Second World War, it was included in the national squad of the Austrian Ski Federation. As in the first winter after the war the Austrian racers were still excluded from FIS races, they could usually only start in national competitions. The first victory in an international race in 1946 she succeeded in Gamperney derby in Grabs, where it was officially recognized but only in the junior class.
In the 1946/47 season Beiser has already won numerous races, including the departure of the SDS- race in Grindelwald and a departure in Seefeld. In the prestigious Arlberg - Kandahar race in Murren she won the slalom and finished second in the downhill and combined. At the beginning of the season 1947/48 they won the downhill, the slalom and the combination with the West Cup in Lech had but to fight subsequently with health problems. But until the highlight of the season she found back to their top form and celebrated at the Olympic Winter Games in 1948 in St. Moritz their first major success. Already in downhill skiing, which also scored for the combination, she won the silver medal behind the Swiss Hedy Schlunegger. The eighth place in the Combined Slalom handed her finally to win the gold medal in the combination before the US - American Gretchen Fraser.
After the 1948 season Beiser, abruptly ended her career. She married Alfred Jochum and brought her first child into the world. After a year's break, she returned in the winter 1949/50, back to racing. At first you get while no peak results, up to the World Cup 1950 in Aspen but she found her old form again. In the giant slalom, she won the silver medal behind Dagmar Rome, four days later, she was in front of Erika Mahringer downhill world champion.
After this winter Jochum - Beiser returned to private life in order to devote more attention to her young family. In the winter of 1951/52, they had to move again to make a comeback, won early season departure, the slalom and the combination in Lech and the departure in Grindelwald and counted so that once again among the medal contenders at the Olympic Winter Games 1952. She reached in Oslo Slalom and giant slalom Although no top places, but won in the downhill with almost a second ahead of the German Anne Marie Buchner the gold medal.
At the end of the Olympic season Jochum - Beiser finally finished her sporting career, but took a few years on race in her home part. In recognition of their great achievements, she was awarded the 1952 Austrian Sportswoman of the Year and received the 1996 Golden Badge of Honour for Services to the Republic of Austria. She worked for several years as a ski instructor in Lech and opened the Café Olympia, which is now run by her son Alfred Jochum with her husband. With her two gold medals and one silver medal she is still one of the most successful Austrian ski racers in the Olympics.
Sporting successes
Olympic Winter Games
- St. Moritz 1948: 1 combination, 2nd exit
- Oslo 1952: 1st exit, 8, Slalom, Giant Slalom 11
World Championships
- St. Moritz 1948: 1 combination, 2nd exit
- Aspen 1950: 1st exit, 2nd Giant Slalom, Slalom 7
- Oslo 1952: 1st exit, 8, Slalom, Giant Slalom 11
Awards
- Austrian Sportswoman of the Year 1952
- Gold Decoration for Services to the Republic of Austria (1996 )
- Century athletes of Austria - Women 5th place
- Golden Ring of Honor Lech for special services (18 December 2000)