Elisabeth Osterwalder Explained

Elisabeth Osterwalder
Sport:Alpine skiing
Paralympic athletics

Elisabeth Osterwalder is a Swiss Para-alpine skier and athlete. She represented Switzerland at the 1984 Paralympic Winter Games. She won a total of seven medals.[1]

Career

She competed at the 1976 Winter Paralympics, in Örnsköldsvik, in giant slalom IV A winning a gold medal, with a time of 3:02:07.[2] [3] [4]

She competed at the 1980 Winter Paralympics in Geilo, winning gold medals in giant slalom 2B - in 3:39:11,[5] and slalom 2B - in 2:07:16.[6]

She competed at the 1984 Winter Paralympics, in Innsbruck, winning a silver medal in the LW4 super combined race (in 7'08" 33  ),[7] and finishing fourth in Women's downhill LW4.

Osterwalder also competed in the Paralympic athletics competitions at the 1980 Summer Paralympics in Arnhem winning a gold medal in the shot put C1 (with the measure of 6.01 m),[8] a silver medal in the throw of the C1 javelin (result 14.94 m),[9] and a bronze in the C1 discus (a throw of 14.02 m  ).[10]

References

  1. Web site: Elisabeth Osterwalder - Alpine skiing, Athletics Paralympic Athlete Profile . 2022-10-31 . International Paralympic Committee . en.
  2. Web site: Ornskoldsvik 1976 - alpine-skiing – womens-giant-slalom-iv . 2022-10-31 . International Paralympic Committee . en.
  3. Web site: Paralympics 1976 Örnsköldvsik . 2022-10-31 . Swiss Paralympic . de-DE.
  4. Web site: Winter Paralympics 1976 Oernskoeldsvik SWE . oepc.at.
  5. Web site: Geilo 1980 - alpine-skiing – womens-giant-slalom-2b . 2022-10-31 . International Paralympic Committee . en.
  6. Web site: Geilo 1980 - alpine-skiing – womens-slalom-2b . 2022-10-31 . International Paralympic Committee . en.
  7. Web site: Innsbruck 1984 - alpine-skiing – womens-alpine-combination-lw4 . 2022-10-31 . International Paralympic Committee . en.
  8. Web site: Arnhem 1980 - athletics – womens-shot-put-c1 . 2022-10-31 . International Paralympic Committee . en.
  9. Web site: Arnhem 1980 - athletics – womens-javelin-c1 . 2022-10-31 . International Paralympic Committee . en.
  10. Web site: Arnhem 1980 - athletics – womens-discus-throw-c1 . 2022-10-31 . International Paralympic Committee . en.