Alexandra Meissnitzer

Alexandra Meissnitzer
Olympic medalist
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Alexandra Meissnitzer in December 2002.
Medal record
Women's Alpine Skiing
Silver 1998 Nagano Giant Slalom
Bronze 1998 Nagano Super-G
Bronze 2006 Turin Super-G
World Championships
Gold 1999 Vail Giant Slalom
Gold 1999 Vail Super-G
Silver 2003 St. Moritz Downhill

Alexandra Meissnitzer (born 18 June 1973) is a retired alpine skier from Austria. Her specialities are the Downhill, Super-G and Giant Slalom disciplines.

She comes from Abtenau, Salzburg. Her father, Hans Meissnitzer, a mechanic by trade, taught her to ski at an early age.

In 2006 Meissnitzer won the bronze in the 2006 Winter Olympics at Turin in the Super-G race. In 1999 she won the overall Alpine Skiing World Cup, to which she added the Super-G and Giant Slalom World Cups for the same season. She also won two world titles (Super-G and Giant Slalom) at the Alpine World Ski Championships 1999.

Meissnitzer finished third in the Super G at the 2008 World Cup finals in Bormio, Italy on 13 March 2008 and set a new record as the oldest woman to finish on the podium in an alpine skiing World Cup race [1].

Contents

World Cup victories

Overall

Season Discipline
1999 Overall
1999 Giant Slalom
1999 Super-G

Individual races

Date Location Race
7 December 1995 France Val-d'Isère Super-G
20 December 1995 Switzerland Veysonnaz Super-G
15 March 1998 Switzerland Crans-Montana Giant Slalom
19 November 1998 United States Park City Giant Slalom
29 November 1998 United States Lake Louise Super-G
10 December 1998 France Val-d'Isère Super-G
11 December 1998 France Val-d'Isère Giant Slalom
19 December 1998 Switzerland Veysonnaz Downhill
24 January 1999 Italy Cortina d'Ampezzo Giant Slalom
22 February 1999 Sweden Åre Giant Slalom
10 March 1999 Spain Sierra Nevada Downhill
4 January 2004 France Megève Super-G
11 December 2004 Austria Altenmarkt Super-G
4 December 2005 Canada Lake Louise Super-G

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Awards
Preceded by
Austria Renate Götschl
Austrian Sportswoman of the year
1998 – 1999
Succeeded by
Austria Stephanie Graf