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

Alpine skier
November 2017
Disciplines	Downhill, Super-G, Giant slalom
Club	S.A. Abtenau
Born	(1973-06-18) 18 June 1973 Abtenau, Salzburg, Austria
Height	1.65 m (5 ft 5 in)
World Cup debut	7 December 1991 (age 18)
Retired	March 2008 (age 34)
Olympics
Teams	3 – (1998, 2002, 2006)
Medals	3 (0 gold)
World Championships
Teams	7 – (1996–2007)
Medals	3 (2 gold)
World Cup
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 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 2 1 5 Super-G 7 7 4 Downhill 5 5 6 Parallel 0 0 2 Total 14 13 17 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

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]