Alexandra Meissnitzer


Alexandra Meissnitzer is a retired World Cup alpine ski racer from Austria. Her specialities were the downhill, super-G, and giant slalom disciplines.
From Abtenau, Salzburg, her father, Hans Meissnitzer, a mechanic by trade, taught her to ski at an early age.
At the 1998 Winter Olympics at Nagano, Meissnitzer won the silver in the giant-slalom and the bronze in the super-G, and at the 2006 Winter Olympics at Turin she won the bronze in the super-G. In 1999, she won the overall World Cup, to which she added the super-G and giant slalom World Cups for the same season. She also won two world titles at the 1999 World Championships. A serious training crash in November 1999, she missed the remainder of the season. At the 2003 World Championships, she won the silver medal in the downhill race behind Melanie Turgeon.
Meissnitzer was third in the super-G at the 2008 World Cup finals in Bormio, Italy, and became the oldest woman to finish on the podium in an alpine World Cup race.

World Cup results

Season titles

Season standings

Race victories

DateLocationDiscipline
7 December 1995 Val-d'IsèreSuper-G
20 December 1995 VeysonnazSuper-G
15 March 1998 Crans-MontanaGiant slalom
19 November 1998 Park CityGiant slalom
29 November 1998 Lake LouiseSuper-G
10 December 1998 Val-d'IsèreSuper-G
11 December 1998 Val-d'IsèreGiant slalom
19 December 1998 VeysonnazDownhill
24 January 1999 Cortina d'AmpezzoGiant slalom
22 February 1999 ÅreGiant slalom
10 March 1999 Sierra NevadaDownhill
4 January 2004 MegèveSuper-G
11 December 2004 AltenmarktSuper-G
4 December 2005 Lake LouiseSuper-G

World Championship results

Olympic results