Olympic Skiing Champion Rosi Mittermaier Dies at 72

Olympic Skiing Champion Rosi Mittermaier Dies at 72
Rosi Mittermaier looks on during a press conference at BMW Welt in Munich on Nov. 9, 2011. Alexander Hassenstein/Bongarts/Getty Images
The Associated Press
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GARMISCH-PARTENKIRCHEN, Germany—Rosi Mittermaier, who won downhill and slalom gold medals at the 1976 Winter Olympics and narrowly missed a sweep of all three women’s Alpine skiing events at the Games, has died. She was 72.

German news agency dpa cited a statement from Mittermaier’s family that she died peacefully on Wednesday “following a serious illness.”