“I was never called Annemarie Moser-Proell”

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Annemarie Proell was born on March 27, 1953 in Kleinarl (A) in the Salzburg region. 20 years later she married her husband Herbert Moser. From that moment on, the skier was known to the public as Annemarie Moser-Proell. A mistake, as she says in an interview on her 70th birthday in the “Kleine Zeitung”: “I was never called Annemarie Moser-Proell. Only the journalists wrote that.”

Whether it’s Moser or Moser-Proell – the name doesn’t change her status as one of the most successful athletes in ski history. She won the big crystal ball six times, won 62 world cup competitions, was world champion five times and Olympic champion once.

Beaten twice by Nadig

From a Swiss point of view, her duels with Marie-Theres Nadig from Flumser at the 1972 Olympic Games in Sapporo (Jap) are fondly remembered. “Normally, two silver medals are not defeats, on the contrary,” recalls the Austrian. “But everyone expected at least one gold from me. After the descent I thought to myself, I’ll just beat her in the giant slalom. When I finished second again, it hurt.”

Even four years later, nothing happens to Olympic gold – Moser resigns before the games in Innsbruck. “I just couldn’t take it anymore. Today you would probably say I had a burnout: the pressure from the public, the ski association and the ski company to have to function properly. I was also newly married and longed to go home When my father told me he had cancer, that was enough.”

In 1977 she made her comeback. Three years later, her last sports dream comes true: the winner of the Olympic downhill run from Lake Placid is called Annemarie Moser-Proell – or Annemarie Moser for short. (cmu)

Source : Blick