Olympic champion Geisenberger via Dahlmeier
“The only consolation is that she died where her heart beat”
07/30/2025 – 4:52 p.m.Reading time: 2 min.
Laura Dahlmeier was fatal when it comes to mountaineering. The six-time Olympic champion Natalie Geisenberger is “shocked” and mourns the loss of the ex-biathlete.
Double Olympic champion Laura Dahlmeier is dead. The former biathlete was killed in mountaineering at Laila Peak in the Pakistani Karakorum Mountains. Her rescue operation was unsuccessful and was discontinued. The management said: “It was Laura Dahlmeier’s express and written will that in a case like no one, nobody should risk his life to recover her. In this case, her wish was to leave her body back on the mountain.”
In addition to her family, Federal President Frank-Walter Steinmeier and the German Ski Association also commented on Dahlmeier. The winter sports world mourns the loss of an exceptional athlete-and is stunned.
The six-time Olympic champion and former German racing tobogganist Natalie Geisenberger says when asked by T-Online: “I don’t want to say much, because I don’t know what. I’m so shocked and sad.”
Geisenberger and Dahlmeier both took part in the 2018 Winter Olympics in Pyeongchang. Dahlmeier also won gold twice for the German team like Geisenberger (single and team).
The nine-time world champion in racing tobogganing also says T-Online about Dahlmeier: “Laura was so down-to-earth and modest, she was really a great person. I think the only comfort is that she died exactly where her heart beat. In the highest and most demanding mountains in the world.”
Dahlmeier devoted herself to new hobbies after her career end in 2019 and has been a state-certified mountain and ski leader and mountain rescuer since 2023. In addition to her Olympic medals, she also won seven gold medals at World Championships as a biathlete.