Alexandra Meissnitzer

Alexandra Meissnitzer

Meissnitzer in 2017
Personal information
Born	18 June 1973 (1973-06-18) (age 45) Abtenau, Salzburg, Austria
Medal record Women's alpine skiing Representing  Austria Olympic Games 1998 Nagano Giant slalom 1998 Nagano Super-G 2006 Turin Super-G World Championships 1999 Vail Giant slalom 1999 Vail Super-G 2003 St. Moritz Downhill

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 the 1998 Winter Olympics at Nagano, Meissnitzer won the silver in the giant-slalom and the bronze in the super-G race, and in the 2006 Winter Olympics at Turin she won the bronze 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. Being heavy injured after a fell in a training in November 1999, she missed the following seasons. At the 2003 Alpine World Ski Championships, she won the silver medal in the downhill race (in a tie with Corinne Rey-Bellet) behind Melanie Turgeon.

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

Individual races

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

References

External links

• Alexandra Meissnitzer's official web site
• Ski-DB.com - Results - Alexandra Meissnitzer

Awards
Preceded by Renate Götschl	Austrian Sportswoman of the year 1998 – 1999	Succeeded by Stephanie Graf