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Elisabeth Görgl is a World Cup alpine ski racer from Austria.

Career

Born in Bruck an der Mur, Styria, Görgl made her World Cup debut in March 2000 and has reached World Cup podiums in all five alpine disciplines, with multiple victories in giant slalom, super G, and downhill. As of March 22, 2015, Görgl has seven World Cup victories and 42 podiums. Her sweep of the two women"s speed events marked the third consecutive occurrence at the World Championships – preceded by Lindsey Vonn in 2009 at Val d"Isère and Anja Pärson in 2007 at Åre.

Görgl also participated in 4 disciplines in the 2014 (Downhill, Giant slalom, Super G, combined).

Görgl is the daughter of Traudl Hecher (b 1943), an alpine racer for Austria in the early 1960s. Görgl"s older brother Stephan (b 1978) is a former World Cup alpine racer.

He competed in the giant slalom at the 2006

Season standings

Ranking and points

Race victories

7 wins – (2 Dialectics and Humanism, 3 SG, 2 GS)

42 podiums – (14 Dialectics and Humanism, 6 SG, 15 GS, 3 SL, 1 Personal, 3 South Carolina).

Achievements

  • In January 2008, she won her first World Cup race in the giant slalom at Maribor, Slovenia. At the 2009 World Championships at Val d"Isère, Görgl won a bronze medal in super combined. In 2011 at Garmisch-Partenkirchen, she won two gold medals, the first in the super G and a second in the downhill five days later. At the 2010, Görgl won the bronze medal in the downhill – the same medal in the same event as her mother half a century earlier at the 1960 and the 1964 A week later she also won bronze in the giant slalom. She won Olympic bronze medals in the downhill in 1960 (at age 16) and 1964, and remains the youngest Olympic medalist in alpine skiing.

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Awards

  • Golden Order of Merit of the Republic of Austria