Alexandra Meissnitzer

November 2017
Personal information
Born	(1973-06-18) 18 June 1973 Abtenau, Salzburg, Austria
Occupation	Alpine skier
Height	1.65 m (5 ft 5 in)
Skiing career
Disciplines	Downhill, super-G, giant slalom
Club	S.A. Abtenau
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 – (2 DH, 7 SG, 5 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 5 5 6 Super-G 7 7 4 Downhill 2 1 5 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

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.

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]

World Cup results

Race victories

• 14 wins – (2 DH, 7 SG, 5 GS)
• 44 podiums – (8 DH, 18 SG, 16 GS, 2 PS)

Date	Location	Discipline
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		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

World Championship results

Olympic results

References

External links

• Alexandra Meissnitzer at FIS (alpine)
• Alexandra Meissnitzer at Olympedia
• Alexandra Meissnitzer at Ski-DB Alpine Ski Database
• Alexandra Meissnitzer's official web site