Background
Her father, Hans Meissnitzer, a mechanic by trade, taught her to ski at an early age.
Her father, Hans Meissnitzer, a mechanic by trade, taught her to ski at an early age.
Her specialities are the downhill, super-G and giant slalom disciplines. She comes from Abtenau, Salzburg. Meissnitzer finished third in the super-G at the 2008 World Cup finals in Bormio, Italy, on 13 March 2008, and set a new record as the oldest woman to finish on the podium in an alpine skiing World Cup race.
Overall
Individual races.
In 2006 Meissnitzer won the bronze in the 2006 Winter Olympics at Turin in the super-G race. In 1999 she won the overall Alpine Ski World Cup, to which she added the super-G and giant slalom World Cups for the same season. She also won two world titles (super-G and giant slalom) at the 1999 Alpine World Ski Championships.
