Background
As a young child, Stähle lived in Venezuela, where she learned water skiing from her father.
As a young child, Stähle lived in Venezuela, where she learned water skiing from her father.
Back in the Netherlands, the family lived in Bergen and she went to school in Alkmaar. In 1975, after winning 26 European titles, Stähle retired from water skiing at the age of 21. She became a physiotherapist and a parachuting enthusiast.
On 7 August 1983 she suffered a spinal cord injury in a parachute jump, leaving her paraplegic at the age of 29.
In the late 80s she enrolled as an arts student at the Rietveld Academie. From the 2000s she preferred to live in anonymity.
Stähle"s death was announced on 1 September 2015. She"s buried at the Zorgvlied cemetery in Amsterdam.