Career
Born in Kleinarl, Salzburg, she was the most successful female alpine ski racer during the 1970s, with six overall titles, including five consecutive. Moser-Pröll celebrated her biggest successes in downhill, giant slalom and combined races. Her younger sister Cornelia Pröll is also a former Olympic alpine skier.
She has 62 individual World Cup victories, second to Lindsey Vonn on the female side, and behind only Ingemar Stenmark and Ole Einar Bjørndalen among all winter ski sport athletes.
The way to her first and only Olympic gold medal was quite long: At the 1972 games in Sapporo, Japan, she was considered the clear favourite for downhill and giant slalom, but in both events she finished second behind Marie-Theres Nadig of Switzerland. She missed the entire 1976 World Cup season, including the 1976 Winter Olympics in Innsbruck, in her home country of Austria.
Several weeks after the 1980 Olympics, she retired from competitive skiing and ran her own café, the "Weltcup-Café Annemarie" in Kleinarl, which was decorated with her extensive cup and trophy collection. Season standings
Season titles
16 titles – (6 overall, 7 downhill, 3 giant slalom) plus unofficial titles in combined
Race victories
62 wins – (36 downhill, 16 giant slalom, 3 slalom, 7 combined).
