Renate Götschl

Renate Götschl (born 6 August 1975) is an Austrian former alpine ski racer. She is a two-time individual World Champion in the combined and downhill (1999), and has won a total of 9 World Championships medals. She also won two Olympic medals in 2002, the bronze medal in downhill and the silver medal in the combined.

Career Götschl made her World Cup debut in 1993, on 14 March 1993, winning the slalom in Lillehammer, Norway. This was followed by more than 100 podium (top 3) results, including at least one win in four of the five disciplines; only a giant slalom win has eluded her, the best result in this discipline being a second place in Lienz in December 2003.

She won the overall World Cup title in 2000, and she has also won five World Cup discipline titles in downhill (1997, 1999, 2004, 2005 and 2007), three in super-G (2000, 2004 and 2007), and two in combined (2000 and 2002).

Götschl has won nine medals at the World Championships, including gold medals in combined (1997) in downhill (1999) and in team event (2007). At the 2002 Winter Olympics, she won a silver medal in combined and a bronze medal in the downhill.

On 28 January 2007, when she was second in a super-G in San Sicario, she celebrated her 100th podium in World Cup. Her total of 46 World Cup race wins (as of 14 March 2007) is fifth all-time among women, behind only Lindsey Vonn, Mikaela Shiffrin, Annemarie Moser-Pröll, and Vreni Schneider. One of her favorite slopes is in Cortina d'Ampezzo, Italy, where on 20 January 2007 she became the first alpine skier ever to win 10 races at a single World Cup venue. This highscore was held until December 2011 when Lindsey Vonn celebrated her ninth, tenth and eleventh victory on three consecutive days in Lake Louise, Canada.

World Cup statistics

Race wins 46 wins (24 DH / 17 SG / 1 SL / 4 KB) Downhill Date Location 7 December 1996 Vail 18 January 1998 Altenmarkt 27 November 1998 Lake Louise 28 November 1998 Lake Louise 27 February 1999 Åre 5 March 1999 St. Moritz 19 February 2000 Åre 25 February 2000 Innsbruck 17 December 2000 St. Moritz 13 January 2001 Haus 26 January 2002 Cortina d'Ampezzo 2 February 2002 Åre 18 January 2003 Cortina d'Ampezzo 12 March 2003 Lillehammer Hafjell 20 December 2003 St. Moritz 10 January 2004 Veysonnaz 10 March 2004 Sestriere 15 January 2005 Cortina d'Ampezzo 10 March 2005 Lenzerheide 28 January 2006 Cortina d'Ampezzo 13 January 2007 Altenmarkt 20 January 2007 Cortina d'Ampezzo 27 January 2007 San Sicario 14 March 2007 Lenzerheide Super-G Date Location 10 January 1995 Flachau 22 January 1999 Cortina d'Ampezzo 16 January 2000 Altenmarkt 27 February 2000 Innsbruck 16 March 2000 Bormio 2 December 2000 Lake Louise 17 January 2003 Cortina d'Ampezzo 28 February 2003 Innsbruck 7 December 2003 Lake Louise 16 January 2004 Cortina d'Ampezzo 21 February 2004 Åre 12 January 2005 Cortina d'Ampezzo 14 January 2005 Cortina d'Ampezzo 3 December 2006 Lake Louise 16 December 2006 Reiteralm 26 January 2007 San Sicario 4 March 2007 Tarvisio Slalom Date Location 14 March 1993 Lillehammer Hafjell

Combined Date Location 19 December 1993 St. Anton 12 February 2000 Santa Caterina 13 January 2002 Saalbach-Hinterglemm 3 February 2002 Åre

Individual races 46 wins (24 DH / 17 SG / 1 SL / 4 KB) 110 podiums (59 DH / 41 SG / 4 GS / 1 SL / 5 KB) Regarding the most podium positions, Götschl ranks third to Annemarie Moser-Pröll, who leads with 113 and Lindsey Vonn.

Cup standings SeasonAgeOverallDHSGGSSLKB 1993 17 57. – – – 18. – 1994 18 15. 18. 46. 28. 24. 3. 1995 19 14. 10. 4. – 31. – 1996 20 10. 7. 5. 51. 47. – 1997 21 8. 1. 12. 39. – – 1998 22 7. 2. 2. – – 14. 1999 23 3. 1. 5. 28. 37. 9. 2000 24 1. 2. 1. 10. 14. 1. 2001 25 2. 2. 2. 14. 24. 3. 2002 26 2. 5. 4. 36. 25. 1. 2003 27 7. 2. 2. 51. – – 2004 28 2. 1. 1. 13. 47. – 2005 29 3. 1. 2. 16. – 7. 2006 30 19. 3. 19. 38. – – 2007 31 4. 1. 1. 26. – – 2008 32 9. 2. 4. – – – 2009 33 23. 9. 13. – – –

World Championship results Year Age Slalom Giant Slalom Super G Downhill Combined 1996 20 — — 20 8 4 1997 21 — — 6 8 1 1999 23 — — 2 1 2 2001 25 — DNF DNF 2 DNF 2003 27 — — 8 5 — 2005 29 — — 23 3 DNF 2007 31 — — 3 7 — 2009 33 — — DNF 24 —

Olympic results Year Age Slalom Giant Slalom Super G Downhill Combined 1994 18 — — DNF DNF DNF 1998 22 — — 5 DNF DNF 2002 26 DNF — 8 3 2 2006 30 — — 26 4 —