Willy Stähle



Willy Juana Stähle ( 3rd January 1954 ) is a former Dutch world champion, European champion and Dutch waterskiing . She could legged waterskiing.



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[ hide ]  *1 Career waterskiing  ==Career waterskiing [ edit] == In 1968 Willy Stähle debuted and immediately as Dutch champion water ski on the ski jumping part and the second in slalom and figures. There were many national medals.
 * 2 Later life
 * 3 Honours
 * 4 External links

It was in 1971, at age 17, during the World Championships in waterskiing in Banyoles (Spain) World Champion in the figures section. In ski jumping, they achieved in that year a bronze medal. Because of that performance in 1971, she was named in the Netherlands Sportswoman of the Year . In 2006, they still got the corresponding Jaap Eden figurine. In 1973 she won at the world championships in Bogota the silver medal at the figures section.

At the 1972 Olympics in Munich, where water skiing was a demonstration sport, she took part in the figures a gold medal. In the slalom part they managed to obtain the silver medal in ski jumping and the part she was fourth. ==Later life [ edit] == In 1975 she stopped competitions for training physical therapy to follow. [1]  On August 7, 1983 she was an accident at skydiving in Teuge airfield a paraplegic in [2] , after which they had to stop her practice as a physiotherapist. After her rehabilitation she studied briefly at the Art Academy .

In 2000, she was interviewed on the television program Sportpaleis De Jong in the summer of 2011 there was a documentary about her in the program Other Times Sport . Since late 2006, she has severed all ties with the past and lives Willy Stähle in anonymity. ==Honours [ edit] == Overall winner: 1972, 1973, 1975
 * Dutch championship


 * European Championship
 * 1970 - Canzo (It) - 1st ski jumping, 1st figures, 1st slalom, 1st overall
 * 1971 - Canzo (It) - 1st ski jumping
 * 1972 - Temple-sur-Lot (Fr) - 1st ski jumping, 1st figures, 1st slalom, 1st overall
 * 1973 - Vilvoorde (B) - 1st figures
 * 1974 - Hartebeespoort (SAF) - 1st overall
 * 1975 - Trier (D) - 1st figures, 1st slalom, 1st overall
 * World
 * 1971 - Banyoles (Sp) - Figures: 1st Willy Stähle, 2nd Kay Thurlow (Aus), 3rd Sylvia Maurial (Fr)
 * 1973 - Bogota (Col) - Figures: 1st Maria Victoria Carrasco (Ven), 2nd Willy Stähle, 3rd Maria Esperanza Carrasco (Ven)
 * Olympics
 * 1972 - Munich - figures 1st, 2nd slalom, ski jump 4th
 * Sport Price Election Netherlands
 * 1971 - Sportswoman: Willy Stähle, Sportsman: Ard Schenk , Sports Team: Women's hockey team