Alexandra Meissnitzer

Olympic medalist
Alexandra Meissnitzer in December 2002
Medal record
Women's Alpine Skiing
Silver	1998 Nagano	Giant Slalom
Bronze	1998 Nagano	Super-G
Bronze	2006 Turin	Super-G
World Championships
Gold	1999 Vail	Giant Slalom
Gold	1999 Vail	Super-G
Silver	2003 St. Moritz	Downhill

Alexandra Meissnitzer (born 18 June 1973) is a retired alpine skier from Austria. Her specialities are the Downhill, Super-G and Giant Slalom disciplines.

She comes from Abtenau, Salzburg. Her father, Hans Meissnitzer, a mechanic by trade, taught her to ski at an early age.

In 2006 Meissnitzer won the bronze in the 2006 Winter Olympics at Turin in the Super-G race. In 1999 she won the overall Alpine Skiing 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 Alpine World Ski Championships 1999.

Meissnitzer finished third in the Super G at the 2008 World Cup finals in Bormio, Italy on 13 March 2008 and set a new record as the oldest woman to finish on the podium in an alpine skiing World Cup race [1].

World Cup victories

Overall

Season	Discipline
1999	Overall
1999	Giant Slalom
1999	Super-G

Individual races

Date	Location	Race
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	Val-d'Isère	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

External links

• Alexandra Meissnitzer's official web site
• Ski-DB.com - Results - Alexandra Meissnitzer

Awards
Preceded by Renate Götschl	Austrian Sportswoman of the year 1998 – 1999	Succeeded by Stephanie Graf