From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia Alexandra Meissnitzer
Alexandra Meissnitzer
Season Discipline
1999 Overall
1999 Giant Slalom
1999 Super-G
Olympic medalist set a new record as the oldest woman to finish on the
podium in an alpine skiing World Cup race [1].
World Cup victories
Overall
Individual races
External links
• Alexandra Meissnitzer’s official web site
• Ski-DB.com - Results - Alexandra Meissnitzer
Alexandra Meissnitzer in December 2002
Medal record Persondata
Women’s Alpine Skiing Name Meissnitzer, Alexandra
Alternative names
Silver 1998 Nagano Giant Slalom
Short description Alpine skier
Bronze 1998 Nagano Super-G
Date of birth 18 June 1973
Bronze 2006 Turin Super-G
Place of birth Abtenau, Austria
World Championships Date of death
Gold 1999 Vail Giant Slalom Place of death
Gold 1999 Vail Super-G
Silver 2003 St. Moritz Downhill
Alexandra Meissnitzer (born 18 June 1973) is a retired
alpine skier from Austria. Her specialities are the Down-
hill, Super-G and Giant Slalom disciplines.
She comes from Abtenau, Salzburg. Her father, Hans
Meissnitzer, a mechanic by trade, taught her to ski at an
early age.
In 2006 Meissnitzer won the bronze in the 2006 Win-
ter Olympics at Turin in the Super-G race. In 1999 she
won the overall Alpine Skiing 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 Alpine World Ski Championships
1999.
Meissnitzer finished third in the Super G at the 2008
World Cup finals in Bormio, Italy on 13 March 2008 and
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From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia Alexandra Meissnitzer
Date Location Race
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 Val-d’Isère 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
Awards
Preceded by Austrian Sportswoman of the year Succeeded by
Renate Götschl 1998 – 1999 Stephanie Graf
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• 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
• Olympic bronze medalists for Austria
• Olympic silver medalists for Austria
• Olympic medalists in alpine skiing
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