Rösli Streiff (1901, Glarus – 7 February 1997) was a Swiss alpine skier and world champion.
| Medal record | ||
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Representing  Switzerland
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| Women's Alpine skiing | ||
| World Championships | ||
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1932 Cortina | Slalom |
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1932 Cortina | Combined |
Streiff received two gold medals at the 1932 World Championships in Cortina d'Ampezzo, winning the slalom event and the combined.[1]
Biography
editStreiff skied her first ski races in 1928 and was a founding member of the Swiss Ladies Ski Club in 1929. In July 1929, she won the slalom of the summer ski race at Jungfraujoch, and finished third in the downhill.[2] At the 1931 Arlberg-Kandahar races in Mürren, she finished third in the slalom and combined, and fourth in the downhill. That same year, also in Mürren, Streiff competed in the first Alpine World Ski Championships, where she achieved placings in the midfield.[3]
At the first SDS races of the Swiss Ladies Ski Club on 15 January 1932, Streiff won all disciplines. Two weeks later she was also a triple winner in downhill, slalom and combined at the Great Ski Race of Switzerland – the Swiss Ski Championships – in Zermatt, for which, however, no championship titles were awarded at the time, only traveling prizes.[4] Streiff reached the peak of her career in early February at the 1932 World Championships in Cortina d'Ampezzo. She first finished eighth in the downhill, and the next day became world champion in the slalom with a lead of more than ten seconds over Britain's Audrey Sale-Barker, thus also securing the world title in the combined.[4]
References
edit- ^ Official results for the FIS Alpine World Ski Championships – FIS-ski.com - (Retrieved on 20 November 2008)
- ^ Frenken, Goswin (1 January 1929). "Der Erzpoet und das Kloster St. Martin in Köln". Jahrbuch des Kölnischen Geschichtsvereins. 11–12 (jg). doi:10.7788/jbkgv-1929-jg04. ISSN 0341-9320. S2CID 183488898.
- ^ "Arlberg Kandahar Results 1928–55" (PDF). 29 October 2013. Archived from the original (PDF) on 29 October 2013. Retrieved 25 October 2022.
- ^ a b Scherberger, R. R.; Kaess, H.; Brückner, S. (September 1975). "[Studies on the action of an anticholinergic agent in combination with a tranquilizer on gastric juice secretion in man]". Arzneimittel-Forschung. 25 (9): 1460–1463. ISSN 0004-4172. PMID 26.
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