Annemarie Moser-Pröll

Annemarie Moser-Pröll (born 27 March 1953) is a former World Cup alpine ski racer from Austria. Born in Kleinarl, Salzburg, she was the most successful female alpine ski racer during the 1970s, with six overall titles, including five consecutive. Moser-Pröll celebrated her biggest successes in downhill, giant slalom and combined races. In 1980, her last year as a competitor, she secured her third Olympic medal (and first gold) at Lake Placid and won five World Cup races. Her younger sister Cornelia Pröll is also a former Olympic alpine skier.[1]

Annemarie Moser-Pröll
Moser-Pröll in 2010
Born (1953-03-27) 27 March 1953
Kleinarl, Salzburg,
Austria
Height1.70 m (5 ft 7 in)
Ski clubSchiklub Kleinarl
World Cup career
Seasons11 – (1969–80, no '76)
Individual wins62
Indiv. podiums113
Indiv. starts174
Medal record
Women's alpine skiing
Representing  Austria
Olympic Games
1980 Lake Placid Downhill
1972 Sapporo Downhill
1972 Sapporo Giant slalom
World Championships
1972 Sapporo Combined
1974 St. Moritz Downhill
1978 Garmisch Downhill
1978 Garmisch Combined
1970 Val Gardena Downhill
1978 Garmisch Giant slalom
Updated on 2010-12-22.

Career

During her career, Moser-Pröll won the overall World Cup title a record six times, including five consecutive (1971–75). She has 62 individual World Cup victories, second to Lindsey Vonn on the female side. Though her record has been broken in absolute numbers, she is still the best ever woman in winning percentage (races won per races raced) because of the fewer races run each season during her era. She won five World Championship titles (3 downhill, 2 combined) and one Olympic gold medal. Of all female skiers, she is the one who won most races of a single discipline in a row (11 downhill races: all eight of the 1973 World Cup season, plus the first three of the following season).

The way to her first and only Olympic gold medal was quite long: At the 1972 games in Sapporo, Japan, she was considered the clear favourite for downhill and giant slalom, but in both events she finished second behind Marie-Theres Nadig of Switzerland. After winning a fifth consecutive title in overall and downhill, she interrupted her racing career to care for her ailing father, afflicted with lung cancer. She missed the entire 1976 World Cup season, including the 1976 Winter Olympics in Innsbruck, in her home country of Austria.[1] After the death of her father in June 1976, she resumed competitive skiing and was immediately among the best, with second place in the overall World Cup standings for two seasons (1977, 1978), and won the overall title for the sixth time in 1979. At the 1980 Winter Olympics in Lake Placid, USA, she finished her extraordinary career by winning the downhill gold medal – with her 1972-rival Marie-Theres Nadig again on the podium, as bronze medalist.[2]

After racing

Several weeks after the 1980 Olympics, she retired from competitive skiing and ran her own café, the "Weltcup-Café Annemarie" in Kleinarl, which was decorated with her extensive cup and trophy collection.[1]

She married Herbert Moser in 1974 and their daughter Marion was born in 1982. In December 2003 her first grandchild was born.

Eight months after the death of her husband, she retired from the gastronomy business in 2008 and sold the establishment to local entrepreneurs, who keep running it as "Café-Restaurant Olympia."

World Cup results

Season standings
Annemarie Moser-Pröll, c. 1972
SeasonAgeOverallSlalomGiant
Slalom		Super GDownhillCombined
1969151615—First
women's
WC SG
held in
January
1983		5Officially
awarded
in 1976
& 1980
only
19701661438
1971171311
1972181911
19731911821
1974201571
1975211411
197622family leave
19772321132
1978242851
19792512121
19802623722

Season titles
  • 16 titles – (6 overall, 7 downhill, 3 giant slalom) plus unofficial titles in combined
Season Discipline
1971Overall
Downhill
Giant slalom
1972Overall
Downhill
Giant slalom
1973Overall
Downhill
1974Overall
Downhill
1975Overall
Downhill
Giant slalom
Combined
1978Downhill
1979Overall
Downhill
Combined

Race victories
Season Date Location Race
197017 January 1970 Maribor, SloveniaGiant slalom
19716 January 1971 Maribor, SloveniaSlalom
29 January 1971 St. Gervais, FranceSlalom
18 February 1971 Sugarloaf, ME, USADownhill
19 February 1971Downhill
10 March 1971 Abetone, ItalyGiant slalom
11 March 1971Giant slalom
14 March 1971 Åre, SwedenGiant slalom
19723 December 1971 St. Moritz, SwitzerlandDownhill
17 December 1971 Bardonecchia, ItalyDownhill
12 January 1972 Bad Gastein, AustriaDownhill
18 January 1972 Grindelwald, SwitzerlandDownhill
22 January 1972 St. Gervais, FranceGiant slalom
19 February 1972 Banff, AB, CanadaGiant slalom
25 February 1972 Crystal Mtn., WA, USADownhill
1 March 1972 Heavenly Valley, CA, USAGiant slalom
19737 December 1972 Val d'Isère, FranceGiant slalom
19 December 1972 Saalbach, AustriaDownhill
20 December 1972Giant slalom
9 January 1973 Pfronten, West GermanyDownhill
10 January 1973Downhill
16 January 1973 Grindelwald, SwitzerlandDownhill
20 January 1973 St. Gervais, FranceGiant slalom
25 January 1973 Chamonix, FranceDownhill
2 February 1973 Schruns, AustriaDownhill
10 February 1973 St. Moritz, SwitzerlandDownhill
2 March 1973 Mt. St. Anne, QC, CanadaGiant slalom
19743 December 1973 Val d'Isere, FranceDownhill
19 December 1973 Zell am See, AustriaDownhill
5 January 1974 Pfronten, West GermanyDownhill
23 January 1974 Bad Gastein, AustriaDownhill
19757 December 1974 Val d'Isere, FranceDownhill
12 December 1974 Cortina d'Ampezzo, ItalyDownhill
15 December 1974 Maribor, SloveniaGiant slalom
9 January 1975 Grindelwald, SwitzerlandDownhill
10 January 1975Giant slalom
Combined
11 January 1975Giant slalom
16 January 1975 Schruns, AustriaCombined
31 January 1975 St. Gervais, FranceCombined
22 February 1975 Naeba, JapanGiant slalom
197715 December 1976 Cortina d'Ampezzo, ItalyDownhill
16 December 1976Combined
19786 January 1978 Pfronten, West GermanyDownhill
7 January 1978Downhill
9 January 1978 Garmisch, West GermanyDownhill
13 January 1978 Les Diablerets, SwitzerlandDownhill
11 March 1978 Bad Gastein, AustriaDownhill
12 March 1978 Bad Kleinkirchheim, AustriaDownhill
17 March 1978 Arosa, SwitzerlandGiant slalom
19799 December 1978 Piancavallo, ItalyDownhill
17 December 1978 Val d'Isere, FranceDownhill
12 January 1979 Les Diablerets, SwitzerlandDownhill
17 January 1979 Meiringen, SwitzerlandDownhill
19 January 1979Combined
26 January 1979 Schruns, AustriaDownhill
4 February 1979 Pfronten, West GermanyCombined
2 March 1979 Lake Placid, NY, USADownhill
198014 December 1979 Piancavallo, ItalyCombined
15 December 1979Slalom
6 January 1980 Pfronten, West GermanyDownhill

References
  1. Sports Reference / Biography Annemarie Moser-Pröll, archived from the original on 17 April 2020, retrieved 19 December 2014
  2. Sports Reference / Olympic Sports, archived from the original on 18 April 2020, retrieved 19 December 2014
Awards
Preceded by
Trixi Schuba		 Austrian Sportswoman of the year
1973–1975		 Succeeded by
Brigitte Habersatter
Preceded by
Brigitte Habersatter		 Austrian Sportswoman of the year
1977–1980		 Succeeded by
Claudia Kristofics-Binder
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