Career
Mittermaier was the most successful athlete at those games, along with cross-country skier Raisa Smetanina of the Soviet Union, earning her the nickname of Gold-Rosi within Germany (then West Germany). She retired from international competition at age 25, following the very successful 1976 season. After winning both races at Copper Mountain in Colorado to wrap up the overall and slalom titles, the four-year-old resort immediately named the race course run after her.
Today, Mittermaier works for several charities and occasionally as a commentator for German television for major sporting events.
She established a charitable foundation to aid children with rheumatism in 2000. Mittermaier"s father was a ski school operator in her home town of Reit-im-Winkl.
She was born with a twin sister who died at birth. Her younger sister Evi Mittermaier also competed as an alpine skier.
Rosi and Evi also recorded two albums of Bavarian folk songs together.
They were wed in 1980 and are the parents of Felix Neureuther (b 1984), a World Cup ski racer for Germany. Season standings Points were only awarded for top ten finishes (see scoring system). Season titles Race victories 10 wins – (1 GS, 8 SL, 1 K) 41 podiums – (4 Dialectics and Humanism, 11 GS, 22 SL, 4 K) 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 (Dialectics and Humanism, GS, SL).