Alexandra Meissnitzer

Alexandra Meissnitzer
November 2017
Personal information
Born (1973-06-18) 18 June 1973 (age 50)
Abtenau, Salzburg, Austria
OccupationAlpine skier
Height1.65 m (5 ft 5 in)
Skiing career
DisciplinesDownhill, super-G, giant slalom
ClubS.A. Abtenau
World Cup debut7 December 1991
(age 18)
RetiredMarch 2008 (age 34)
Olympics
Teams3 – (1998, 2002, 2006)
Medals3 (0 gold)
World Championships
Teams7 – (19962007)
Medals3 (2 gold)
World Cup
Seasons17 – (19922008)
Wins14 – (2 DH, 7 SG, 5 GS)
Podiums44
Overall titles1 – (1999)
Discipline titles2 – (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
Silver medal – second place 1998 Nagano Giant slalom
Bronze medal – third place 1998 Nagano Super-G
Bronze medal – third place 2006 Turin Super-G
World Championships
Gold medal – first place 1999 Vail Giant slalom
Gold medal – first place 1999 Vail Super-G
Silver medal – second place 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.

World Cup results

Season titles

Season Discipline
1999 Overall
Giant slalom
Super-G

Season standings

Season Age Overall Slalom Giant
Slalom
Super-G Downhill Combined
1992 18 98 48 45
1993 19 89 54 35
1994 20 76 46 38 42
1995 21 23 29 10 21
1996 22 5 9 2 6
1997 23 19 24 17 12
1998 24 5 3 11 8 24
1999 25 1 44 1 1 2 5
2000 26 105 51
2001 27 16 13 12 21
2002 28 15 12 2 43 20
2003 29 8 7 4 10
2004 30 8 7 7 10
2005 31 16 27 6 21
2006 32 9 26 2 6
2007 33 17 34 5 15
2008 34 26 36 9 28

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 France Val-d'Isère Super-G
20 December 1995  Switzerland  Veysonnaz Super-G
15 March 1998  Switzerland  Crans-Montana Giant slalom
19 November 1998 United States Park City Giant slalom
29 November 1998 United States Lake Louise Super-G
10 December 1998 France Val-d'Isère Super-G
11 December 1998 Giant slalom
19 December 1998  Switzerland  Veysonnaz Downhill
24 January 1999 Italy Cortina d'Ampezzo Giant slalom
22 February 1999 Sweden Åre Giant slalom
10 March 1999 Spain Sierra Nevada Downhill
4 January 2004 France Megève Super-G
11 December 2004 Austria Altenmarkt Super-G
4 December 2005 Canada Lake Louise Super-G

World Championship results

  Year    Age   Slalom   Giant 
 Slalom 
Super-G Downhill Combined
1996 22 DNS2 23 16
1997 23 13 17
1999 25 1 1 4
2001 27 DNF2 8 11
2003 29 DNF1 5 2
2005 31 DNF 22
2007 33 8

Olympic results

  Year    Age   Slalom   Giant 
 Slalom 
Super-G Downhill Combined
1998 24 2 3 8
2002 28 4 4
2006 32 3 8

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