Corinne Rey-Bellet
Rey-Bellet, pictured 2003 | |||||||||||||||
| Personal information | |||||||||||||||
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| Born | 2 August 1972 Les Crosets, Valais, Switzerland | ||||||||||||||
| Died | 30 April 2006 (aged 33) Les Crosets, Valais, Switzerland | ||||||||||||||
| Occupation | Alpine skier ♀ | ||||||||||||||
| Height | 163 cm (5 ft 4 in) | ||||||||||||||
| Weight | 62 kg (137 lb) | ||||||||||||||
| Spouse |
Gerold Stadler (m. 2002) | ||||||||||||||
| Children | 1 | ||||||||||||||
| Skiing career | |||||||||||||||
| Disciplines | Downhill, super-G, giant slalom | ||||||||||||||
| World Cup debut | 1992 | ||||||||||||||
| Retired | 2003 | ||||||||||||||
| Website | rey-bellet.com | ||||||||||||||
| World Championships | |||||||||||||||
| Medals | 1 | ||||||||||||||
| World Cup | |||||||||||||||
| Wins | 5 | ||||||||||||||
Medal record
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Corinne Rey-Bellet (2 August 1972 – 30 April 2006) was a Swiss alpine skier. Rey-Bellet shared a World Championship silver medal in the downhill event in St. Moritz in 2003 (tying with Alexandra Meissnitzer) and won a total of five World Cup races, three downhill and two super-G. Her double win at St Anton am Arlberg on 16 January 1999 is the first and only double win on the same day in the women's Alpine World Cup. She retired in 2003 due to a series of injuries sustained to her right knee.
On 30 April 2006, her husband Gerold Stadler murdered her and her brother, shortly after she separated from him. He killed himself two days later. Her murder attracted a significant amount of public attention and resulted in increased political and institutional pressure to fight domestic violence, and influenced the debate on changing Swiss gun laws. Stadler was a captain in the Swiss Armed Forces, and used his service pistol in her murder; following her death, rules were changed to prohibit the keeping of military ammunition by soldiers at home. In 2021, Rey-Bellet was honored by the Swiss government as part of the Hommage 2021 project to honor women significant to Swiss history.