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{{Short description|Austrian luger (1929–2011)}}
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{{MedalSport|[[Luge]]}}
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{{MedalGold|[[FIL World Luge Championships 1957|1957 Davos]]|Women's singles}}
{{MedalGold|[[FIL World Luge Championships 1960|1960 Garmisch-Partenkirchen]]|Women's singles}}
{{MedalSilver|[[FIL World Luge Championships 1955|1955 Oslo]]|Women's singles}}
{{MedalSilver|[[FIL World Luge Championships 1955|1955 Oslo]]|Doubles}}
{{MedalSilver|[[FIL World Luge Championships 1959|1959 Villard-de-Lans]]|Women's singles}}
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{{MedalGold|[[FIL European Luge Championships 1952|1952 Garmisch-Partenkirchen]]|Women's singles}}
{{MedalGold|[[FIL European Luge Championships 1953|1953 Cortina d'Ampezzo]]|Women's singles}}
{{MedalGold|[[FIL European Luge Championships 1954|1954 Davos]]|Women's singles}}
{{MedalGold|[[FIL European Luge Championships 1954|1954 Davos]]|Doubles}}
{{MedalGold|[[FIL European Luge Championships 1955|1955 Hahnenklee]]|Women's singles}}
{{MedalSilver|[[FIL European Luge Championships 1956|1956 Imst]]|Women's singles}}
{{MedalBronze|[[FIL European Luge Championships 1951|1951 Igls]]|Women's singles}}
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'''Maria Isser''' (22 October 1929 in [[Matrei am Brenner]] – 25 February 2011 in [[Innsbruck]]<ref>[http://www.tiroler-rodelverband.at/index.php/Rennrodeln_Kunstbahn.html tiroler-rodelverband] {{webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20110321103132/http://www.tiroler-rodelverband.at/index.php/Rennrodeln_Kunstbahn.html |date=21 March 2011 }} (German) retrieved 3 April 2011</ref>) was an [[Austria]]n [[luge]]r who competed during the early 1950s and early 1960s. She won five medals at the [[FIL World Luge Championships]] with two golds (Women's singles: [[FIL World Luge Championships 1957|1957]], [[FIL World Luge Championships 1960|1960]]) and three silvers (Women's singles: [[FIL World Luge Championships 1955|1955]], [[FIL World Luge Championships 1959|1959]]; Doubles: 1955).

At the [[FIL European Luge Championships|European championships]], Isser won six medals in the women's singles event and one in the doubles event. This included five straight golds (Women's singles:[[FIL European Luge Championships 1952|1952]]–[[FIL European Luge Championships 1955|1955]], Doubles: [[FIL European Luge Championships 1954|1954]]), one silver (Women's singles: [[FIL European Luge Championships 1956|1956]]), and one bronze (Women's singles: [[FIL European Luge Championships 1951|1951]]). Maria's European gold in the doubles event in 1954 with her brother [[Josef Isser|Josef]] was the first time a woman ever won a medal in a doubles event at a World Championships, [[Winter Olympics]], or [[FIL European Luge Championships|European Championships]] until the debut of a mixed team event at both the European and World Championships in the late 1980s. Next year Maria and Josef finished at 2nd place in the doubles event at the [[FIL World Luge Championships 1955|1955]] World Championships. In the [[FIL World Luge Championships 1958|1958]] World Championships, the silver and bronze pairs from Poland included one woman each.

==References==
*[https://web.archive.org/web/20070529123634/http://www.hickoksports.com/history/worldluge.shtml Hickok sports information on World champions in luge and skeleton.]
*[https://web.archive.org/web/20080325014953/http://www.eiskanal.com/eiskanal-kunstbahnrennrodeln-europameisterschaften.html List of European luge champions] {{in lang|de}}
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