Alexandra Meissnitzer

Who is Alexandra Meissnitzer?

Alexandra Meissnitzer 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 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 at the 1999 Alpine World Ski Championships.

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.