“Gold-Rosi” is dead: mourning for ski icon Mittermaier

The German ski icon Rosi Mittermaier is dead. Her family announced this on Thursday. The former ski racer and two-time Olympic champion “fell asleep peacefully with her family after a serious illness” on Wednesday. The mother of the former German ski star Felix Neureuther was 72 years old.

Mittermaier created one of the biggest celebrations in German Olympic history when she won two gold medals in downhill and slalom and one silver medal in the giant slalom in Innsbruck in 1976. “These uniquely emotional moments still feel like it was yesterday,” said former DOSB President Alfons Hörmann.

Mittermaier was then regularly asked about Innsbruck. The down-to-earth Upper Bavarian became known as “Gold-Rosi” and was practically a pop star after the Olympics. “In my parents’ house there was a whole room full of mail and packages. The postman told us that 27.000 letters arrived in one month, and he became completely crazy because he had to bring the whole flood up to the Winklmoosalm,” recalled Mittermaier on the occasion of her 70th birthday.

She loved skiing: “For me, pure skiing is still the most beautiful thing there is and it will always make my heart soar,” said the alpine icon, who didn’t want to be reduced to the competitive athlete she was back then.

She had achieved too many other goals in her life for that. She traveled the world as an advertising ambassador. Mittermaier founded a family in Garmisch with her husband, the former ski racer Christian Neureuther. Son Felix later became the most successful German racing driver in World Cup history.

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“Gold-Rosi” is dead: mourning for ski icon Mittermaier

Alpine skiing is in mourning. The ski icon and mother of Felix Neureuther Rosi Mittermaier is dead. In 1976, the down-to-earth German became a star at the Olympics.

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