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 an all-time women's record of six overall titles, including five consecutively. She had most success 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 alpine Olympian. is second only to Mikaela Shiffrin who has won 37.5% of her races. 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 1972–73 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 1975–76 World Cup season, including the 1976 Winter Olympics in Innsbruck, in her home country of Austria. 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, 1977–78), 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.

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.

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

Season Age Overall Slalom Giantslalom Super G Downhill Combined 1969 15 16 15 — Firstwomen'sWC SGheld inJanuary1983 5 Officiallyawardedin 1976& 1980only 1970 16 6 14 3 8 1971 17 1 3 1 1 1972 18 1 9 1 1 1973 19 1 18 2 1 1974 20 1 5 7 1 1975 21 1 4 1 1 1976 22 family leave 1977 23 2 11 3 2 1978 24 2 8 5 1 1979 25 1 2 12 1 1980 26 2 3 7 2 2

Season titles Moser-Pröll won sixteen titles (six overall, seven downhill and three giant slalom).

Season Discipline 1971 Overall Downhill Giant slalom 1972 Overall Downhill Giant slalom 1973 Overall Downhill 1974 Overall Downhill 1975 Overall Downhill Giant slalom Combined 1978 Downhill 1979 Overall Downhill Combined

Race victories Moser-Pröll's race wins total 62, comprising 36 downhill, 16 giant slalom, 3 slalom and 7 combined. Season Date Location Race 1970 17 January 1970 Maribor, Yugoslavia Giant slalom 1971 6 January 1971 Maribor, Yugoslavia Slalom 29 January 1971 St. Gervais, France Slalom 18 February 1971 Sugarloaf, ME, USA Downhill 19 February 1971 Downhill 10 March 1971 Abetone, Italy Giant slalom 11 March 1971 Giant slalom 14 March 1971 Åre, Sweden Giant slalom 1972 3 December 1971 St. Moritz, Switzerland Downhill 17 December 1971 Bardonecchia, Italy Downhill 12 January 1972 Bad Gastein, Austria Downhill 18 January 1972 Grindelwald, Switzerland Downhill 22 January 1972 St. Gervais, France Giant slalom 19 February 1972 Banff, AB, Canada Giant slalom 25 February 1972 Crystal Mtn., WA, USA Downhill 1 March 1972 Heavenly Valley, CA, USA Giant slalom 1973 7 December 1972 Val d'Isère, France Giant slalom 19 December 1972 Saalbach, Austria Downhill 20 December 1972 Giant slalom 9 January 1973 Pfronten, West Germany Downhill 10 January 1973 Downhill 16 January 1973 Grindelwald, Switzerland Downhill 20 January 1973 St. Gervais, France Giant slalom 25 January 1973 Chamonix, France Downhill 2 February 1973 Schruns, Austria Downhill 10 February 1973 St. Moritz, Switzerland Downhill 2 March 1973 Mt. St. Anne, QC, Canada Giant slalom 1974 3 December 1973 Val d'Isere, France Downhill 19 December 1973 Zell am See, Austria Downhill 5 January 1974 Pfronten, West Germany Downhill 23 January 1974 Bad Gastein, Austria Downhill 1975 7 December 1974 Val d'Isere, France Downhill 12 December 1974 Cortina d'Ampezzo, Italy Downhill 15 December 1974 Maribor, Yugoslavia Giant slalom 9 January 1975 Grindelwald, Switzerland Downhill 10 January 1975 Giant slalom Combined 11 January 1975 Giant slalom 16 January 1975 Schruns, Austria Combined 31 January 1975 St. Gervais, France Combined 22 February 1975 Naeba, Japan Giant slalom 1977 15 December 1976 Cortina d'Ampezzo, Italy Downhill 16 December 1976 Combined 1978 6 January 1978 Pfronten, West Germany Downhill 7 January 1978 Downhill 9 January 1978 Garmisch, West Germany Downhill 13 January 1978 Les Diablerets, Switzerland Downhill 11 March 1978 Bad Gastein, Austria Downhill 12 March 1978 Bad Kleinkirchheim, Austria Downhill 17 March 1978 Arosa, Switzerland Giant slalom 1979 9 December 1978 Piancavallo, Italy Downhill 17 December 1978 Val d'Isere, France Downhill 12 January 1979 Les Diablerets, Switzerland Downhill 17 January 1979 Meiringen, Switzerland Downhill 19 January 1979 Combined 26 January 1979 Schruns, Austria Downhill 4 February 1979 Pfronten, West Germany Combined 2 March 1979 Lake Placid, NY, USA Downhill 1980 14 December 1979 Piancavallo, Italy Combined 15 December 1979 Slalom 6 January 1980 Pfronten, West Germany Downhill