She will never be forgotten. On January 4, 2023, the sports world was overshadowed by sad news: Rosi Mittermaier (✝72) lost the battle against her serious cancer. Now it is the first anniversary of the ski racer’s death. To this day, the Munich native remains one of the most successful German winter sports athletes of all time. As a reminder of Rosie Glamial now gives you an outline of her moving life!
The 72-year-old started skiing at the age of six. Trained in the fall of 1965 Rosie for the first time with the national team. The athlete achieved her greatest successes around ten years later at the Winter Olympics in Innsbruck: There she won two gold medals in the downhill and slalom as well as the silver medal in the giant slalom. The mother of two then ended her active career.
Even after her remarkable sports career ended Rosie present in the media. Together with her husband Christian Neureuther (74), she became involved as an advertiser and sports ambassador. On top of that, the former Olympic champion published several books – including her biography “I’m Happy Anyway”. A special event in her public life was when she became the very first person from winter sports to be inducted into the German Sports Hall of Fame in 2006.
