Petra Kronberger

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Petra Kronberger
Personal information
Born (1969-02-21) 21 February 1969 (age 55)
St. Johann im Pongau, Austria
Occupation Alpine skier
Height1.74 m (5 ft 9 in)
Skiing career
Disciplines Slalom, giant slalom, super-G,
Downhill, combined
ClubSC Werfenweng
World Cup debut20 March 1987 (age 18)
Retired28 December 1992 (age 23)
Olympics
Teams2 – (1988, 1992)
Medals2 (2 gold)
World Championships
Teams2 – (1989, 1991)
Medals1 (1 gold)
World Cup
Seasons6 – (19881993)
Wins16
Podiums35
Overall titles3 – (1990, 1991, 1992)
Discipline titles1 – (SL: 1991)
Medal record
Women's alpine skiing
Representing Flag of Austria.svg  Austria
World Cup race podiums
Event1st2nd3rd
Slalom314
Giant slalom301
Downhill622
Super-G233
Combined212
Total16712
International competitions
Event1st2nd3rd
Olympic Games 200
World Championships 100
Junior World Championships 010
Total310
Olympic Games
Gold medal icon (G initial).svg 1992 Albertville Slalom
Gold medal icon (G initial).svg 1992 Albertville Alpine combined
World Championships
Gold medal icon (G initial).svg 1991 Saalbach Downhill
Junior World Ski Championships
Silver medal icon (S initial).svg1987 HemsedalGiant slalom

Petra Kronberger (born 21 February 1969) is an Austrian former alpine skier, who participated in all disciplines. She was the first female alpine skier to win in all five World Cup events.

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Career

Kronberger entered the World Cup circuit in the 1987/88 season. She gained several podiums and was expected to be a strong competitor at the 1988 Winter Olympic Games in Calgary. She did not win any medals there, but she did give a good performance for an athlete still in her teen years: she finished sixth in the downhill and eleventh in the combined.

Kronberger only won her first World Cup events, two downhill races, in December 1989, but by the end of that season, she had captured the World Cup overall title. This made her an instant hero in Austria: ever since that country's skiing star of the 1970s, Annemarie Pröll (later Moser-Pröll) had retired, the Swiss team had almost completely dominated the alpine world, which had long rankled the Austrian fans.

She successfully defended her World Cup overall champion title twice. Over the course of thirty-eight days in December 1990 and January 1991, Kronberger became the first skier in the modern era to win one race in each of the five alpine events in one season. Four of those wins in all but the combined came in the month of December alone, another notable feat.

At the 1991 World Championships she won a gold medal in her first event, the downhill, and was suspected to be able to win four more medals. However, she fell in her second event, the Super-G, and injured her right knee, forcing her to miss the rest of the races. (Despite her fall, she still finished sixth in that event.)

Her performances at the 1992 Winter Olympic Games in Albertville, France, were even better. She won two gold medals, one in the slalom and one in the combined, and finished a respectable fourth (with only 0.01 sec. behind the podium) the Super-G, and fifth in the downhill. [1]

It was a great surprise when she retired as alpine skier on 25 December 1992, saying that she had lost her motivation.[ citation needed ]

After career

Kronberger did catch up on her matriculation, did start studies in German philology and history of art at the university in the borough of Salzburg, did act as an assistant at a university. In later time she lived in Berlin and Hamburg. After dissolution she returned to the borough of Salzburg. She did work in adult vocational training and was an art guide in the "Salzburg Museum" (museum in Salzburg) and "Festung Hohensalzburg" ("Hohensalzburg Castle"), and she was a member of the Organizing Committee of the FIS Alpine Skiing World Championships 2013 at Schladming. She also is a singer in the "Salzburger Domchor" (cathedral choir at Salzburg) and the "KlangsCala" (a famous chamber choir in Salzburg). Since November 2015 she is employed at the Austrian Skiing Federation, and since 16 January 2016 she is a "Frauenbeauftragte" (maybe translated as commissioner for women's affairs) there (cit. the German Wikipedia).

World Cup victories

Overall

SeasonDiscipline
1990 Overall
1991 Overall
1991 Slalom
1992 Overall

Individual races

DateLocationRace
16 December 1989 Flag of Canada (Pantone).svg Panorama Downhill
17 December 1989 Flag of Canada (Pantone).svg Panorama Downhill
8 January 1990 Flag of Austria.svg Hinterstoder Giant slalom
14 January 1990 Flag of Austria.svg Haus im Ennstal Combined
28 January 1990 Flag of Italy.svg Santa Caterina Giant slalom
13 March 1990 Flag of Sweden.svg Vemdalen Slalom
1 December 1990 Flag of Italy.svg Val Zoldana Giant slalom
2 December 1990 Flag of Italy.svg Val Zoldana Slalom
9 December 1990 Flag of Austria.svg Altenmarkt-Zauchensee Super-G
21 December 1990 Flag of France.svg Morzine Downhill
7 January 1991 Flag of Austria.svg Bad Kleinkirchheim Combined
13 January 1991 Flag of Slovenia.svg Kranjska Gora Slalom
18 January 1991 Flag of France.svg Méribel Downhill
19 January 1991 Flag of France.svg Méribel Super-G
21 December 1991 Flag of France.svg Serre Chevalier Downhill
14 March 1992 Flag of Canada (Pantone).svg PanoramaDownhill

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References

  1. Evans, Hilary; Gjerde, Arild; Heijmans, Jeroen; Mallon, Bill; et al. "Petra Kronberger". Olympics at Sports-Reference.com. Sports Reference LLC. Archived from the original on 17 April 2020.