Frieda Dänzer

Frieda Dänzer (16 November 1930 – 21 January 2015) was a Swiss Alpine skier who competed internationally during the 1950s. She won a silver medal in the downhill at the 1956 Winter Olympics in Cortina d'Ampezzo. At the 1958 World Championships in Bad Gastein she won gold in the alpine combined, as well as silver in the downhill and bronze in the giant slalom. Despite the accident, she later defeated leading Swiss skiers such as Rosmarie Bleuer and Irène Molitor.

After retiring from competitive skiing around 1960, Dänzer obtained a professional ski instructor qualification in 1962. During this training she met Alfred Brunner, whom she married in 1966. The couple later moved to Brunnen in the canton of Schwyz, where they founded and ran a ski school and remained closely connected to the sport.