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 Alpine skiing at the 1998 [Winter Olympics|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 FIS [Alpine World Ski Championships 1999|1999 World Championships]. A serious training crash in November 1999, she missed the remainder of the season. At the FIS Alpine [World Ski Championships 2003|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 |  |