Alexandra Meissnitzer | |
Disciplines: | Downhill, super-G, giant slalom |
Club: | S.A. Abtenau |
Birth Date: | 18 June 1973 |
Birth Place: | Abtenau, Salzburg, Austria |
Height: | 1.65 m |
Wcdebut: | 7 December 1991 (age 18) |
Retired: | March 2008 (age 34) |
Olympicteams: | 3 – (1998, 2002, 2006) |
Olympicmedals: | 3 |
Olympicgolds: | 0 |
Worldsteams: | 7 – (1996–2007) |
Worldsmedals: | 3 |
Worldsgolds: | 2 |
Wcseasons: | 17 – (1992–2008) |
Wcwins: | 14 – (2 DH, 7 SG, 5 GS) |
Wcpodiums: | 44 |
Wcoveralls: | 1 – (1999) |
Wctitles: | 2 – (SG, GS; 1999) |
Show-Medals: | yes |
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 | |
---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
18 | 98 | — | 48 | 45 | — | — | ||
19 | 89 | — | — | 54 | 35 | — | ||
20 | 76 | — | 46 | 38 | 42 | — | ||
21 | 23 | — | 29 | 10 | 21 | — | ||
22 | 5 | — | 9 | 2 | 6 | — | ||
23 | 19 | — | 24 | 17 | 12 | — | ||
24 | 5 | — | 3 | 11 | 8 | 24 | ||
25 | 1 | 44 | 1 | 1 | 2 | 5 | ||
26 | 105 | — | 51 | — | — | — | ||
27 | 16 | — | 13 | 12 | 21 | — | ||
28 | 15 | — | 12 | 2 | 43 | 20 | ||
29 | 8 | — | 7 | 4 | 10 | — | ||
30 | 8 | — | 7 | 7 | 10 | — | ||
31 | 16 | — | 27 | 6 | 21 | — | ||
32 | 9 | — | 26 | 2 | 6 | — | ||
33 | 17 | — | 34 | 5 | 15 | — | ||
34 | 26 | — | 36 | 9 | 28 | — |
Date | Location | Discipline | |
---|---|---|---|
7 December 1995 | Super-G | ||
20 December 1995 | Super-G | ||
15 March 1998 | Giant slalom | ||
19 November 1998 | Giant slalom | ||
29 November 1998 | Super-G | ||
10 December 1998 | Val-d'Isère | Super-G | |
11 December 1998 | Giant slalom | ||
19 December 1998 | Veysonnaz | Downhill | |
24 January 1999 | Giant slalom | ||
22 February 1999 | Giant slalom | ||
10 March 1999 | Downhill | ||
4 January 2004 | Super-G | ||
11 December 2004 | Super-G | ||
4 December 2005 | Lake Louise | Super-G |
Year | Age | Slalom | Giant Slalom | Super-G | Downhill | Combined | |
---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
22 | — | DNS2 | 23 | 16 | — | ||
23 | — | — | 13 | 17 | — | ||
25 | — | 1 | 1 | 4 | — | ||
27 | — | DNF2 | 8 | 11 | — | ||
29 | — | DNF1 | 5 | 2 | — | ||
31 | — | — | DNF | 22 | — | ||
33 | — | — | — | — |
Year | Age | Slalom | Giant Slalom | Super-G | Downhill | Combined | |
---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
24 | — | ||||||
28 | — | ||||||
32 | — |