| NADIG Marie-Therese (SUI) |
08.03.1954 Flums
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SKI: Spolding -Blizzard
BOOTS:
BINDING:
1982 retired
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| Gringelwald 75 |
Pfronten 80 |
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World Cup Ranking
General
1972/5th, 1973/17th, 1974/6th, 1975/4th,
1976/14th, 1977/6th, 1978/10th,
1979/5th, 1980/3rd, 1981/1st.
Special
1972 DH/3rd, 1974 DH/2nd, 1975 DH/3rd, 1977
DH/3rd, 1978 DH/3rd,
1979 DH/3rd,GS/4th, 1980 DH/1st,GS/2nd, 1981 DH/1st,GS/2nd.
World Championships
1974 St.Moritz DH/5th.
1978 Garmisch DH/4th.
Olympic Games
1972 Sapporo DH/1st, GS/1st.
1976 Innsbruck GS/5th.
1980 Lake Placid DH/3rd.
WCup - 24 w. (13 DH, 6 GS, 5 K)
| 1. |
DH: |
Innsbruck 75, Jackson Hole 75, Val d'Isere
77, 79, 80,
Piancavallo 79,80, Zell am see 79, Pfronten
80,
Arosa 80, Badgastein 80, Crans Montana 81,
Megeve 81 |
| GS: |
Furano 79,79,81 Val d'Isere 79, Limone Piemonte
80,
Maribor 81 |
| K: |
Crans Montana 77, Val d'Isere 78, 79, 80,
Piancavallo 80 |
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It was long time between victories for Marie-Therese Nadig.
A surprising double Olympic champion in downhill and GS in 1972 over favorite
Annemarie Proell, Nadig had to wait three more years before winning again.
She won the pre-Olympic downhill at Innsbruck in 1975.
An attack of flu kept her out of the Olympics in 1976. Nadig bounced back
with several more victories in the 1977/78 season but failed to any more
gold medals in major races.
In 1980 she was the skier to beat at the Olympic downhill in Lake Placid
after winning six downhill races leading up the event. But strong winds
kept her from clocking the fastest time.
The title went to her arch-rival Moser-Proell.
That frustration gave her the motivation to fight a one last year for the
Overall World Cup in 1981.
In fact, the aggressive Swiss dominated that season with seven victories
- finishing with a remarkable triumph at the last GS in Japan's Furano.
Nadig won it by an incredible margin of 5.2 seconds over Hanni Wenzel, the largest winning margin in modern ski racing.
A passionate soccer player, "Maite" Nadig was considered the
foundation of the strong Swiss team which dominated the women's scene during
that time along with Lise Marie Morerod, Erika Hess, Michaela Figini, Maria
Walliser and Vreni Schneider.
All together they won dozens of gold medals and eleven Overall World Cup
titles.
After stepping down as a racer, Marie-Therese remained involved by running private ski clinics and became the first woman to train a national team.
She also ran the Liechtenstein ski team and later worked with the Swiss
Federation. Her brother Theo has also been a successful coach for two decades.
During the 1999/2000, Nadig trains the Swiss women's downhill team. |
Biorama Basel |
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