- Alexandra Meissnitzer
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Olympic medalist
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].
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World Cup victories
Overall
Season Discipline 1999 Overall 1999 Giant Slalom 1999 Super-G Individual races
Date Location Race 7 December 1995 Val-d'Isère
Super-G 20 December 1995 Veysonnaz
Super-G 15 March 1998 Crans-Montana
Giant Slalom 19 November 1998 Park City
Giant Slalom 29 November 1998 Lake Louise
Super-G 10 December 1998 Val-d'Isère
Super-G 11 December 1998 Val-d'Isère
Giant Slalom 19 December 1998 Veysonnaz
Downhill 24 January 1999 Cortina d'Ampezzo
Giant Slalom 22 February 1999 Åre
Giant Slalom 10 March 1999 Sierra Nevada
Downhill 4 January 2004 Megève
Super-G 11 December 2004 Altenmarkt
Super-G 4 December 2005 Lake Louise
Super-G External links
- Alexandra Meissnitzer's official web site
- Ski-DB.com - Results - Alexandra Meissnitzer
1950: Dagmar Rom | 1952: Andrea Mead-Lawrence | 1954: Lucienne Schmith | 1956: Ossi Reichert | 1958: Lucille Wheeler | 1960: Yvonne Rüegg | 1962: Marianne Jahn | 1964: Marielle Goitschel | 1966: Marielle Goitschel | 1968: Nancy Greene | 1970: Betsy Clifford | 1972: Marie-Theres Nadig | 1974: Fabienne Serrat | 1976: Kathy Kreiner | 1978: Maria Epple | 1980: Hanni Wenzel | 1982: Erika Hess | 1985: Diann Roffe | 1987: Vreni Schneider | 1989: Vreni Schneider | 1991: Pernilla Wiberg | 1993: Carole Merle | 1996: Deborah Compagnoni | 1997: Deborah Compagnoni | 1999: Alexandra Meissnitzer | 2001: Sonja Nef | 2003: Anja Pärson | 2005: Anja Pärson | 2007: Nicole Hosp | 2009: Kathrin Hölzl | 2011: Tina Maze1987: Maria Walliser | 1989: Ulrike Maier | 1991: Ulrike Maier | 1993: Katja Seizinger | 1996: Isolde Kostner | 1997: Isolde Kostner | 1999: Alexandra Meissnitzer | 2001: Régine Cavagnoud | 2003: Michaela Dorfmeister | 2005: Anja Pärson | 2007: Anja Pärson | 2009: Lindsey Vonn | 2011: Elisabeth GörglDancing Stars (Austria season 6) Astrid Wirtenberger · Alexandra Meissnitzer · Mike Galeli · Alfons Haider · Mirna Jukić · Cathy Zimmermann · Dieter Chmelar · Uwe Kröger · Reinhard Nowak · Markus Wolfahrt · Christine Kaufmann · James CottriallAwards Preceded by
Renate Götschl
Austrian Sportswoman of the year
1998 – 1999Succeeded by
Stephanie Graf
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