Name Alexandra Meissnitzer | Role Olympic athlete | |
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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 the 1998 Winter Olympics at Nagano, Meissnitzer won the silver in the giant-slalom and the bronze in the super-G race, and in the 2006 Winter Olympics at Turin she won the bronze in the super-G race. In 1999 she won the overall Alpine Ski 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 1999 Alpine World Ski Championships. Being heavy injured after a fell in a training in November 1999, she missed the following seasons. At the 2003 Alpine World Ski Championships, she won the silver medal in the downhill race (in a tie with Corinne Rey-Bellet) behind Melanie Turgeon.
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.