![Blowing the competition out of the water: Rösli Streiff won the slalom and combined titles at the World Ski Championships in Italy in 1932.](https://blog.nationalmuseum.ch/app/uploads/streiff-titel-300x225.jpg)
Switzerland's first women's ski champion
Rösli Streiff won both the slalom and combined titles at the second Alpine World Ski Championships in Cortina d’Ampezzo in 1932. A look back at the life of the trailblazing skier from Glarus and the early days of women’s downhill skiing.
![An aerial photo of the Streiff family’s bleachery (centre) taken in 1924.](https://blog.nationalmuseum.ch/app/uploads/bleicherei-300x209.jpg)
![SDS meeting in the 1930s. Rösli Streiff is in the centre, wearing the number 10 bib.](https://blog.nationalmuseum.ch/app/uploads/sds-treffen-300x214.jpg)
![Unlike her male counterparts, who often worked as ski instructors, Rösli Streiff and her fellow national team mates did not get the same amount of time on the slopes.](https://blog.nationalmuseum.ch/app/uploads/ski-mann-und-frau-300x140.jpg)
![Poster advertising the 1931 World Ski Championships in Mürren.](https://blog.nationalmuseum.ch/app/uploads/plakat-ski-wm-muerren-211x300.jpg)
![Rösli Streiff taking part in the No Fall Race in Mürren in 1934 (photographer unknown).](https://blog.nationalmuseum.ch/app/uploads/streiff-rennen-300x177.jpg)
![Rösli Streiff’s World Cup trophy, won in 1932 in Cortina d’Ampezzo.](https://blog.nationalmuseum.ch/app/uploads/pokal-rosli-streiff-284x300.jpg)
![The 1932 world champion remained physically active into old age. Rösli Streiff at a veterans race in Grindelwald in 1963.](https://blog.nationalmuseum.ch/app/uploads/streiff-in-action-290x300.jpg)
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This text was produced in collaboration with Swiss Sports History, the portal for the history of sports in Switzerland. The portal focuses on education in schools and information for the media, researchers and the general public. Find out more at sportshistory.ch