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Alpine skiing: Traudl Hecher, two-time Olympic downhill medallist, has died - Beauce Média

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INNSBRUCK, Austria — Two-time Olympic downhill medallist Traudl Hecher has died at the age of 79, the Austrian Alpine Ski Federation confirmed Thursday. The federation said in a statement that Hecher died on Tuesday in her home town of Schwaz. The cause of his death was not specified. Hecher was only 16 when she won the bronze medal in the downhill event at the 1960 Squaw Valley Games in California. She also reached the third step of the podium …

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Two-time Olympic downhill medalist Traudl Hecher dies at 79

Two-time Olympic downhill medalist Traudl Hecher has died, the Austrian ski federation said Thursday. She was 79. Hecher's daughter Elisabeth Görgl also won Olympic bronze in downhill four decades after her mother. The federation says Hecher died Tuesday in her…

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Two-time Olympic medalist Traudl Hecher dies

Born in Schwaz on September 28, 1943, Traudl Hecher was a great woman of her time. With Olympic bronze in the USA, the 16-year-old became the youngest female alpine medalist in history at the time.

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