Alexandra Meissnitzer
Alexandra Meissnitzer is a retired FIS Alpine Ski [World Cup|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
Race victories
- 14 wins –
- 44 podiums –
| Date | Location | Discipline |
| 7 December 1995 |  |