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Alexandra Meissnitzer

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Alexandra Meissnitzer (born 18 June 1973) 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. Read more on Wikipedia

Her biography is available in 22 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 20 in 2024). Alexandra Meissnitzer is the 383rd most popular skier (up from 412th in 2024), the 1,207th most popular biography from Austria (up from 1,216th in 2019) and the 59th most popular Austrian Skier.

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Among SKIERS

Among skiers, Alexandra Meissnitzer ranks 383 out of 817Before her are Corinne Rey-Bellet, Josef Polig, Tamara Tikhonova, Frida Hansdotter, Sigrid Wolf, and Günther Csar. After her are Kateřina Neumannová, Ole Kristian Furuseth, Charlotte Kalla, Manfred Deckert, Svetlana Nageykina, and Wendy Holdener.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1973, Alexandra Meissnitzer ranks 715Before her are Kasia Kowalska, Kenneth Carlsen, Anjelika Krylova, Steve Corica, Eddy Mazzoleni, and Dario Frigo. After her are Bruno Campos, Anna Gomis, Kateřina Neumannová, Catarina Martins, Giuseppe Zappella, and Jeyhun Bayramov.

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In Austria

Among people born in Austria, Alexandra Meissnitzer ranks 1,207 out of 1,424Before her are Klaus Sulzenbacher (1965), Emanuel Pogatetz (1983), Klaudia Tanner (1970), Sigrid Wolf (1964), Ingo Appelt (1961), and Günther Csar (1966). After her are Ulla Weigerstorfer (1967), Barbara Paulus (1970), Walter Kogler (1967), Susanne Riess (1961), Robert Pecl (1965), and Christoph Leitgeb (1985).

Among SKIERS In Austria

Among skiers born in Austria, Alexandra Meissnitzer ranks 59Before her are Christian Hoffmann (1974), Heinz Kuttin (1971), Andreas Kofler (1984), Klaus Sulzenbacher (1965), Sigrid Wolf (1964), and Günther Csar (1966). After her are Helmut Mayer (1966), Anna Veith (1989), Manuel Fettner (1985), Fritz Strobl (1972), Martin Koch (1982), and Matthias Mayer (1990).