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She also finished fifth in the giant slalom at the 1952 Olympics in Oslo, Norway, and fifth in the combined at the 1954 World Championships in Åre, Sweden.
She also finished fifth in the giant slalom at the 1952 Olympics in Oslo, Norway, and fifth in the combined at the 1954 World Championships in Åre, Sweden.
At age 19, Rodolph was the top North American in two of the three races at the 1950 World Championships in Aspen, with a fifth in the downhill and eighth in the giant slalom. Named to the 1956 Olympic team, she incurred neck and knee fractures in downhill training at Kitzbühel on January 14, less than two weeks before the games began at Cortina d"Ampezzo. Born in Denver, Colorado, Rodolph grew up in Hayden and learned to ski and race at nearby Howelsen Hill in Steamboat Springs.
While on the United States. Ski Team in the early 1950s, she resided in Sun Valley, Idaho, and worked as a waitress.
Rodolph was featured on the cover of Newsweek magazine in January 1952, and was inducted into the United States. Ski Hall of Fame in 1966. While still in plaster from her Kitzbühel injuries, Rodolph married William Wyatt, an officer in the United States. Air Force, in a civil ceremony in Las Vegas in February 1956.
That marriage was kept secret for nearly a year, until the 1952 Winter Olympics in February, when rumors of a romance between Rodolph and new gold medalist Stein Eriksen made the wire services. After a crash on his third jump in the Nordic combined, suffered a mild concussion and was hospitalized.
At the Olympics, was on temporary leave from training as a naval aviation cadet, and United States. Navy regulations required candidates to be unmarried. was removed from the program and then served enlisted duty in Guam.
Rodolph moved to Reno and worked as a waitress, and gained a divorce in January 1953. The Wyatts settled in Las Vegas and raised three children. Rodolph-Wyatt died of complications of a rare blood disease at age 63 in 1994.
From 1948 through 1980, the Winter Olympics were also the World Championships for alpine skiing.
She was a member of four world championship and Olympic teams in the 1950s.
