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Born | Abtenau, Salzburg, Austria | 18 June 1973||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Occupation | Alpine skier | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Height | 1.65 m (5 ft 5 in) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Skiing career | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Disciplines | Downhill, super-G, giant slalom | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Club | S.A. Abtenau | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
World Cup debut | 7 December 1991 (age 18) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Retired | March 2008 (age 34) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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Teams | 3 – (1998, 2002, 2006) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Medals | 3 (0 gold) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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Teams | 7 – (1996–2007) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Medals | 3 (2 gold) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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Seasons | 17 – (1992–2008) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Wins | 14 – (2 DH, 7 SG, 5 GS) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Podiums | 44 | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Overall titles | 1 – (1999) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Discipline titles | 2 – (SG, GS; 1999) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Medal record
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Alexandra Meissnitzer (born 18 June 1973) is a retired World Cup alpine ski racer from Austria. Her specialities were the downhill, super-G, and giant slalom disciplines.
From Abtenau, Salzburg, her father, Hans Meissnitzer, a mechanic by trade, taught her to ski at an early age.
At the 1998 Winter Olympics at Nagano, Meissnitzer won the silver in the giant-slalom and the bronze in the super-G, and at the 2006 Winter Olympics at Turin she won the bronze in the super-G. In 1999, she won the overall 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 1999 World Championships. A serious training crash in November 1999, she missed the remainder of the season. At the 2003 World Championships, she won the silver medal in the downhill race (in a tie with Corinne Rey-Bellet) behind Melanie Turgeon.
Meissnitzer was third in the super-G at the 2008 World Cup finals in Bormio, Italy, and became the oldest woman (age 34) to finish on the podium in an alpine World Cup race. [1]
Season | Discipline |
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1999 | Overall |
Giant slalom | |
Super-G |
Season | Age | Overall | Slalom | Giant Slalom | Super-G | Downhill | Combined |
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1992 | 18 | 98 | — | 48 | 45 | — | — |
1993 | 19 | 89 | — | — | 54 | 35 | — |
1994 | 20 | 76 | — | 46 | 38 | 42 | — |
1995 | 21 | 23 | — | 29 | 10 | 21 | — |
1996 | 22 | 5 | — | 9 | 2 | 6 | — |
1997 | 23 | 19 | — | 24 | 17 | 12 | — |
1998 | 24 | 5 | — | 3 | 11 | 8 | 24 |
1999 | 25 | 1 | 44 | 1 | 1 | 2 | 5 |
2000 | 26 | 105 | — | 51 | — | — | — |
2001 | 27 | 16 | — | 13 | 12 | 21 | — |
2002 | 28 | 15 | — | 12 | 2 | 43 | 20 |
2003 | 29 | 8 | — | 7 | 4 | 10 | — |
2004 | 30 | 8 | — | 7 | 7 | 10 | — |
2005 | 31 | 16 | — | 27 | 6 | 21 | — |
2006 | 32 | 9 | — | 26 | 2 | 6 | — |
2007 | 33 | 17 | — | 34 | 5 | 15 | — |
2008 | 34 | 26 | — | 36 | 9 | 28 | — |
Date | Location | Discipline |
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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 | 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 |
Year | Age | Slalom | Giant Slalom | Super-G | Downhill | Combined |
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1996 | 22 | — | DNS2 | 23 | 16 | — |
1997 | 23 | — | — | 13 | 17 | — |
1999 | 25 | — | 1 | 1 | 4 | — |
2001 | 27 | — | DNF2 | 8 | 11 | — |
2003 | 29 | — | DNF1 | 5 | 2 | — |
2005 | 31 | — | — | DNF | 22 | — |
2007 | 33 | — | — | 8 | — | — |
Year | Age | Slalom | Giant Slalom | Super-G | Downhill | Combined |
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1998 | 24 | — | 2 | 3 | 8 | — |
2002 | 28 | — | 4 | 4 | — | — |
2006 | 32 | — | — | 3 | 8 | — |
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