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.

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 standings Season Age Overall Slalom GiantSlalom 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 251 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)

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 —