Alexandra Meissnitzer
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Disciplines | Downhill, Super-G, Giant slalom | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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Club | S.A. Abtenau | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Born | Abtenau, Salzburg, Austria | 18 June 1973|||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Height | 1.65 m (5 ft 5 in) | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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 – (5 DH, 7 SG, 2 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]
World Cup results[]
Season titles[]
Season | Discipline |
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1999 | Overall |
Giant slalom | |
Super-G |
Season standings[]
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 | — |
Race victories[]
Date | Location | Discipline |
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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 | ![]() |
Super-G |
11 December 1998 | Giant slalom | |
19 December 1998 | ![]() |
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 | ![]() |
Super-G |
World Championship results[]
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 | — | — |
Olympic results[]
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 | — |
References[]
External links[]
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- Alexandra Meissnitzer at the International Ski Federation
- Alexandra Meissnitzer World Cup standings at the International Ski Federation
- Alexandra Meissnitzer at Ski-DB Alpine Ski Database
- Alexandra Meissnitzer at Olympics at Sports-Reference.com (archived)
- Alexandra Meissnitzer's official web site
- 1973 births
- Austrian female alpine skiers
- Alpine skiers at the 1994 Winter Olympics
- Alpine skiers at the 1998 Winter Olympics
- Alpine skiers at the 2002 Winter Olympics
- Alpine skiers at the 2006 Winter Olympics
- Olympic alpine skiers of Austria
- Medalists at the 1998 Winter Olympics
- Medalists at the 2006 Winter Olympics
- Olympic medalists in alpine skiing
- Olympic silver medalists for Austria
- Olympic bronze medalists for Austria
- FIS Alpine Ski World Cup champions
- People from Hallein District
- Living people
- Sportspeople from Salzburg (state)