Alexandra Meissnitzer
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Meissnitzer in December 2002 | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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18 June 1973 (age 43) Abtenau, Salzburg, Austria | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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Alexandra Meissnitzer (born 18 June 1973) is a retired alpine skier from Austria. Her specialities are the downhill, 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 Winter Olympics at Turin in the super-G race. In 1999 she won the overall Alpine Ski 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 Alpine World Ski Championships.
Meissnitzer finished third in the super-G at the 2008 World Cup finals in Bormio, Italy, on 13 March 2008, and 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
| Season | Discipline |
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| 1999 | Overall |
| 1999 | Giant slalom |
| 1999 | Super-G |
Individual races
| Date | Location | Race |
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| 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 |
References
External links
- Alexandra Meissnitzer's official web site
- Ski-DB.com - Results - Alexandra Meissnitzer
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| Preceded by Renate Götschl |
Austrian Sportswoman of the year 1998 – 1999 |
Succeeded by Stephanie Graf |