Elisabeth Nagele (12 June 1933 – 22 June 1993)
was a
Swiss luger who competed in the early 1960s. She won the gold medal in the women's singles at the
1961 FIL World Luge Championships in
Girenbad,
Switzerland. Nagele also finished 12th in the women's singles event at the
1964 Winter Olympics
The 1964 Winter Olympics, officially known as the IX Olympic Winter Games (german: IX. Olympische Winterspiele) and commonly known as Innsbruck 1964 ( bar, Innschbruck 1964, label=Austro-Bavarian), was a winter multi-sport event which was celebr ...
in
Innsbruck. She later served as a delegate to the
International Luge Federation
The International Luge Federation ( French: Fédération Internationale de Luge de Course (FIL); German: Internationaler Rennrodelverband) is the main international federation for all luge sports. Founded by 13 nations at Davos, Switzerland in ...
(FIL) in the late 1980s.
References
Hickok sports information on World champions in luge and skeleton.''RevueOlympique'' article on the FIL featuring Nagele in January-February 1987. p. 55
*[https://web.archive.org/web/20070927035935/http://www.sportquick.com/techlist.asp?SearchResult=Envoi&list0=Luge&list1=Championnats%20du%20Monde%20piste%20artificielle&list2=&shot2=T&shot3=Champion SportQuick.com information on World champions in luge]
Lugers at the 1964 Winter Olympics
Swiss female lugers
Olympic lugers for Switzerland
1933 births
1993 deaths
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