Alexandra Meissnitzer

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.

Alexandra Meissnitzer
November 2017
Personal information
Born (1973-06-18) 18 June 1973
Abtenau, Salzburg, Austria
OccupationAlpine skier
Height1.65 m (5 ft 5 in)
Skiing career
DisciplinesDownhill, super-G, giant slalom
ClubS.A. Abtenau
World Cup debut7 December 1991
(age 18)
RetiredMarch 2008 (age 34)
Olympics
Teams3 – (1998, 2002, 2006)
Medals3 (0 gold)
World Championships
Teams7 – (19962007)
Medals3 (2 gold)
World Cup
Seasons17 – (19922008)
Wins14 – (2 DH, 7 SG, 5 GS)
Podiums44
Overall titles1 – (1999)
Discipline titles2 – (SG, GS; 1999)
Medal record
Women's alpine skiing
Representing  Austria
International alpine ski competitions
Event 1st 2nd 3rd
Olympic Games 0 1 2
World Championships 2 1 0
Total 2 2 2
World Cup race podiums
Event 1st 2nd 3rd
Giant 5 5 6
Super-G 7 7 4
Downhill 2 1 5
Parallel 0 0 2
Total 14 13 17
Olympic Games
1998 NaganoGiant slalom
1998 NaganoSuper-G
2006 TurinSuper-G
World Championships
1999 VailGiant slalom
1999 VailSuper-G
2003 St. MoritzDownhill

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.

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