Erika Hess
Template:Short description Template:DMCA Script error: No such module "Template wrapper".Script error: No such module "Check for conflicting parameters". Erika Hess (born 6 March 1962) is a former World Cup alpine ski racer from Switzerland. One of the best female racers of the 1980s, Hess had 31 World Cup wins (22 in slalom), four slalom titles (1981–83 and 1985), and two overall titles (1982, 1984). She also won six World Championship gold medals between 1982 and 1987, and took bronze in the slalom at the 1980 Winter Olympics at age 17. Hess missed another medal in 1985, when she led after the first run of the slalom at the "Stelvio" course at Bormio, but failed to finish the second leg.[1]
Biography
Born in Wolfenschiessen, Nidwalden, Hess' first World Cup start was at age fifteen in Berchtesgaden, West Germany, on January 25, 1978, and her first podium was on December 6, 1979, at Val-d'Isère, France. She retired at age 25 following the 1987 season with 31 World Cup victories, 76 podiums, and 146 top tens in 165 starts.[2] She won six World Cup Slalom Races in a row from January to the season finish in March 1981.
Hess was awarded with the »Skieur d’Or« (»The ski racer in gold«, later named "Serge Lang Trophy" - named after Serge Lang - an award given by "The Association Internationale des Journalistes de Ski", an international Consortium of journalists competent for ski sports) on November 22, 1982 (5 points ahead to Phil Mahre). She tied for the slalom title in 1986, but was runner-up to Roswitha Steiner due to the tiebreaker: Steiner had four slalom wins and Hess had two.
Her cousin Monika Hess (b. 1964) also was an alpine ski racer.[3]
She explained her retirement in an article in the newspaper Sport that an important reason for her career end before Calgary 1988 was the factors given at the Olympic Games such as weather, hustle and bustle, nervous pressure, which weigh many times more heavily at the Olympics than at a normal race. She had not been able to cope with these circumstances.[4]
Hess married Jacques Reymond (her trainer); the couple and three sons were living at Saint-Légier-La Chiésaz in Vaud at the time of Reymond's death in May 2020 (due to COVID-19).
Erika is organizing races and training camps for upcoming ski racers.
World Cup results
Season titles
| Season | Discipline |
|---|---|
| 1981 | Slalom |
| 1982 | Overall |
| Slalom | |
| 1983 | Slalom |
| 1984 | Overall |
| Giant slalom | |
| Combined | |
| 1985 | Slalom |
Season standings
| Season | Age | Overall | Slalom | Giant Slalom |
Super G | Downhill | Combined |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1978 | 15 | 28 | 16 | 21 | not run |
— | — |
| 1979 | 16 | 15 | 18 | 10 | — | — | |
| 1980 | 17 | 7 | 6 | 5 | — | — | |
| 1981 | 18 | 2 | 1 | 3 | 34 | 4 | |
| 1982 | 19 | 1 | 1 | 3 | 35 | 2 | |
| 1983 | 20 | 3 | 1 | 4 | not awarded (w/ GS) |
— | 4 |
| 1984 | 21 | 1 | 4 | 1 | 35 | 1 | |
| 1985 | 22 | 4 | 1 | 12 | — | 5 | |
| 1986 | 23 | 2 | 2 | 7 | 20 | 25 | 2 |
| 1987 | 24 | 4 | 3 | 4 | 18 | 32 | 3 |
Race victories
| Season | Date | Location | Race |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1981 | 13 January 1981 | Template:Flagicon Schruns, Austria | Slalom |
| 21 January 1981 | Template:Flagicon Crans-Montana, Switzerland | Slalom | |
| 31 January 1981 | Template:Flagicon Les Diablerets, Switzerland | Slalom | |
| 3 February 1981 | Template:Flagicon Zwiesel, West Germany | Slalom | |
| 15 March 1981 | Template:Flagicon Furano, Japan | Slalom | |
| 24 March 1981 | Template:Flagicon Wangs–Pizol, Switzerland | Slalom | |
| 25 March 1981 | Giant slalom | ||
| 1982 | 13 December 1981 | Template:Flagicon Piancavallo, Italy | Slalom |
| 21 December 1981 | Template:Flagicon St. Gervais, France | Slalom | |
| 3 January 1982 | Template:Flagicon Maribor, Yugoslavia | Slalom | |
| 20 January 1982 | Template:Flagicon Bad Gastein, Austria | Slalom | |
| Combined | |||
| Template:Flagicon 1982 World Championships | |||
| 20 March 1982 | Template:Flagicon L'Alpe d'Huez, France | Giant slalom | |
| 21 March 1982 | Slalom | ||
| 1983 | 8 December 1982 | Template:Flagicon Val-d'Isère, France | Giant slalom |
| 17 December 1982 | Template:Flagicon Piancavallo, Italy | Slalom | |
| 9 February 1983 | Template:Flagicon Maribor, Yugoslavia | Slalom | |
| 1984 | 1 December 1983 | Template:Flagicon Kranjska Gora, Yugoslavia | Slalom |
| 11 December 1983 | Template:Flagicon Val-d'Isère, France | Giant slalom | |
| 14 December 1983 | Template:Flagicon Sestriere, Italy | Combined | |
| 15 January 1984 | Template:Flagicon Maribor, Yugoslavia | Slalom | |
| 22 January 1984 | Template:Flagicon Verbier, Switzerland | Combined | |
| 29 January 1984 | Template:Flagicon St. Gervais, France | Giant slalom | |
| 17 March 1984 | Template:Flagicon Jasná, Czechoslovakia | Giant slalom | |
| 1985 | 19 March 1985 | Template:Flagicon Park City, UT, USA | Slalom |
| Template:Flagicon 1985 World Championships | |||
| 22 March 1985 | Template:Flagicon Heavenly Valley, CA, USA | Slalom | |
| 1986 | 12 December 1985 | Template:Flagicon Sestriere, Italy | Combined |
| 15 December 1985 | Template:Flagicon Savognin, Switzerland | Slalom | |
| 11 March 1986 | Template:Flagicon Park City, UT, USA | Slalom | |
| 1987 | 5 December 1986 | Template:Flagicon Waterville Valley, NH, USA | Slalom |
| 21 December 1986 | Template:Flagicon Val Zoldana, Italy | Slalom | |
| Template:Flagicon 1987 World Championships | |||
World Championship results
| Year | Age | Slalom | Giant Slalom |
Super-G | Downhill | Combined |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1978 | 15 | — | 9 | not run | — | — |
| 1980 | 17 | 3 | DNF2 | — | — | |
| 1982 | 19 | 1 | 1 | — | 1 | |
| 1985 | 22 | DNF2 | 11 | — | 1 | |
| 1987 | 24 | 1 | — | — | 7 | 1 |
From 1948 through 1980, the Winter Olympics were also the World Championships for alpine skiing.
At the World Championships from 1954 through 1980, the combined was a "paper race" using the results of the three events (DH, GS, SL).
Olympic results
| Year | Age | Slalom | Giant Slalom |
Super-G | Downhill | Combined |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1980 | 17 | 3 | DNF2 | not run | — | not run |
| 1984 | 21 | 5 | 7 | — |
See also
References
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- ^ Page Module:Citation/CS1/styles.css has no content."Erika Hess - Athlete Information". fis-ski.com. Retrieved 1 March 2021.
- ^ Ski-db.com – results – Erika Hess – accessed 2010-03-13
- ^ Page Module:Citation/CS1/styles.css has no content."Miss Quario of Italy Takes Cup Slalom". New York Times. 15 December 1983. Retrieved 24 September 2021.
- ^ Page Module:Citation/CS1/styles.css has no content.Brandes, Holger (2001), ""Ich hatte Angst, dass man mir das ansehen könnte ..."", Der männliche Habitus, Wiesbaden: VS Verlag für Sozialwissenschaften, pp. 149–151, doi:10.1007/978-3-322-97541-6_19, ISBN 978-3-8100-3257-7, retrieved 25 October 2022
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External links
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