Double Olympic Champion Rosi Mittermaier Dies at 72
Jan 05, 2023·Alpine Skiing
Rosemarie Mittermaier passed away on Wednesday evening at the age of 72, as announced by the family, due to a severe illness.
"Rosi" was the focal point of a family of champions; her husband is Christian Neureuther, another legend of those wonderful years, and her son is Felix, who wrote other beautiful pages in the last decade before retiring in March 2019.
Rosi was born in Munich on 5 August 1950 and grew up in the heart of Bavaria, in Reit im Winkl, where her parents, who had moved there from the capital city, had a restaurant and a ski school. Mittermaier became a skiing legend in 1975/76 when she won the overall and slalom titles and two Olympic gold medals, one in downhill and one in slalom, and a silver medal in the giant slalom in the 1976 edition.
She won ten World Cup victories (41 podiums in total), from her first in the slalom at Schruns in 1969 to her last double in Copper Mountain in March 1976, consecrating her as the absolute queen of the snow.
FIS expresses her deepest condolences to her family and the DSV for this heartfelt loss.
