Alexandra Meissnitzer

Alexandra Meissnitzer

Meissnitzer in December 2002
Personal information
Born	18 June 1973 (age 43) 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 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
1999	Overall
1999	Giant slalom
1999	Super-G

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

1. http://www.ski-db.com/db/stats/WC_f_age.asp

External links

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