Isolde Kostner

Isolde Kostner

Personal information
Born	(1975-03-20) 20 March 1975 Bolzano, Italy
Height	171 cm (5 ft 7 in)
Weight	66 kg (146 lb)
Sport
Club	Fiamme Gialle
Medal record Woman's alpine skiing Representing Italy Olympic Games 2002 Salt Lake City Downhill 1994 Lillehammer Super G 1994 Lillehammer Downhill World Championships 1996 Sierra Nevada Super G 1997 Sestrières Super G 2001 St. Anton Super G

Isolde Kostner (born 20 March 1975) is an Italian former Alpine skier who won two bronze medals at the 1994 Winter Olympics and a silver medal at the 2002 Winter Olympics. She was the Italian flag bearer at the opening ceremony of the 2002 Olympics.

Biography

Kostner won two gold medals in Super-G at the Alpine Ski World Championships in 1996 and 1997, and in 2001 and 2002 she won the World Cup discipline title in Downhill. Her first World Cup win was in the downhill on 29 January 1994, at Garmisch-Partenkirchen this was, however, overshadowed by the death of Ulrike Maier on the same day.

Kostner was born in Bolzano. Her cousin and goddaughter is Carolina Kostner, the 2012 World champion and 2014 Olympic bronze medalist in figure skating.

She announced her retirement on 10 January 2006.

World Cup victories

Overall victories

Season	Discipline
2001	Downhill
2002	Downhill

Individual victories

Date	Location	Race
29 January 1994	Garmisch Partenkirchen	Downhill
20 January 1996	Cortina d'Ampezzo	Downhill
24 January 1997	Cortina d'Ampezzo	Downhill
25 January 1997	Cortina d'Ampezzo	Super-G
24 January 1998	Cortina d'Ampezzo	Downhill
27 November 1999	Lake Louise	Downhill
8 December 1999	Val d'Isère	Super-G
17 December 1999	Saint Moritz	Downhill
10 February 2000	Santa Caterina Valfurva	Downhill
2 December 2000	Lake Louise	Downhill
19 January 2001	Cortina d'Ampezzo	Downhill
24 February 2001	Lenzerheide	Super-G
29 November 2001	Lake Louise	Downhill
30 November 2001	Lake Louise	Downhill
31 January 2004	Haus im Ennstal	Downhill

See also

• Italian sportswomen multiple medalists at Olympics and World Championships
• Italy national alpine ski at the World championships
• Italian skiers who closed in top 10 in overall World Cup

External links

• Isolde Kostner at FIS (alpine)
• Isolde Kostner at Olympedia
• Isolde Kostner at the Italian National Olympic Committee (in Italian)