Sabine Gasteiger
Appearance
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Nationality | Austrian | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Born | October 28, 1956 | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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Country | Austria | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Sport | Para-alpine skiing | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Event(s) | Downhill Slalom Giant slalom Super combined Super-G | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Medal record
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Sabine Gasteiger (born 28 October 1956) is an Austrian Paralympic Gold medallist. She was awarded a gold medal in 2006, as part of her Decoration of Honour for Services to the Republic of Austria.
Life
Gasteiger was born in 1956. She has very poor eyesight and she therefore competes as a paralympian. She skis for the Austrian national team.
She won a gold medal, two bronze and a silver at the 2006 Winter Paralympics in Turin.[1]
She has two silver medals at the 2010 Winter Paralympics in Vancouver. She won the second silver medal in the Women’s Giant Slalom (Visually Impaired).[2] She was the 2009 Austrian disabled sportsperson of the year.
References
- ^ Sabine Gasteiger and Alexander Hohlrieder honored in Salzburg Archived 2007-08-18 at the Wayback Machine, oepc.at, retrieved 15 February 2014
- ^ Giant Slalom Races Feature Rain and Great Finishes, March 2010, paralympic.org, retrieved 15 February 2014