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Death of German Alpine skiing great Cranz, aged 90
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Germany's Christl Cranz, achieved 12 World Championship titles, including four slalom (1934 and 1937–39), three downhill (1935, 1937, and 1939), and five combined (1934, 1935, and 1937–39), the most ever held by a woman.

Introduced as an Olympic event at the Garmisch Games of 1936, watched by Hitler, Germany's Christl Cranz won the first women's alpine skiing gold medal in the alpine combined, also taking the slalom. She came close to a hat trick of golds but fell in the downhill, getting up to finish 6th.

The British were instrumental in having women’s ski racing introduced as an Olympic sport, despite some resistance from the Committee. GB included women in races from the early days of the sport, with Esme Mackinnon winning both women’s downhill and slalom in the first ever World Cup in 1931. To have alpine racing at all, the Olympic brass had to take on women’s racing, too.

She was found dead at her home in Steibis, in the Bavarian Alps.
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