Annemarie Moser-Pröll (born 27 March 1953) is a former
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alpine ski racer from
Austria
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. Born in
Kleinarl
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Geography
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,
Salzburg
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, 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
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,
giant slalom and
combined races. In
1980, her last year as a competitor, she secured her third
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medal (and first gold) at
Lake Placid and won five World Cup races. Her younger sister
Cornelia Pröll
Cornelia Pröll (born 21 January 1961) is an Austrian former alpine skier who competed in the 1980 Winter Olympics.
She was born in Kleinarl, the younger sister of Annemarie Moser-Pröll.
Cornelia, named "Conny", finished 22nd in the Olympic Down ...
is also a former Olympic alpine skier.
Career
During her career, Moser-Pröll won the overall World Cup title a record six times, including five consecutive (1971–75). She has 62 individual World Cup victories, third behind
Lindsey Vonn
Lindsey Caroline Vonn ( ; born October 18, 1984) is an American former World Cup alpine ski racer on the US Ski Team. She won four World Cup overall championships — second only amongst female skiers to Annemarie Moser-Pröll — with three ...
and
Mikaela Shiffrin
Mikaela Pauline Shiffrin (born March 13, 1995) is an American two-time Olympic Gold Medalist and World Cup alpine skier. She is a four-time Overall World Cup champion, a four-time world champion in slalom, and a six-time winner of the World Cup ...
on the female side. In winning percentage (races won of those entered) her percentage of 35.4% is second only to
Mikaela Shiffrin
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who has won 37.5% of her races. She won five World Championship titles (3 downhill, 2 combined) and one Olympic gold medal. Of all female skiers, she is the one who won most races of a single discipline in a row (11 downhill races: all eight of the
1972–73 World Cup season, plus the first three of the following season).
The way to her first and only Olympic gold medal was quite long: At the
1972 games in
Sapporo
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, Japan, she was considered the clear favourite for downhill and giant slalom, but in both events she finished second behind
Marie-Theres Nadig
Marie-Theres Nadig (born 8 March 1954) is a retired Swiss alpine skier.
Biography
Aged 17, she won gold medals in the downhill and giant slalom events at the 1972 Winter Olympics. During her career, Nadig won 24 world cup races and had 57 podi ...
of Switzerland. After winning a fifth consecutive title in overall and downhill, she interrupted her racing career to care for her ailing father, afflicted with lung cancer. She missed the entire
1975–76 World Cup season, including the
1976 Winter Olympics
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in
Innsbruck, in her home country of Austria.
After the death of her father in June 1976, she resumed competitive skiing and was immediately among the best, with second place in the overall World Cup standings for two seasons (
1977
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,
1977–78), and won the overall title for the sixth time in
1979
Events
January
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. At the
1980 Winter Olympics
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Lake Placid was elected ...
in
Lake Placid, USA, she finished her extraordinary career by winning the downhill gold medal – with her 1972-rival Marie-Theres Nadig again on the podium, as bronze medalist.
After racing
Several weeks after the 1980 Olympics, she retired from competitive skiing and ran her own café, the "Weltcup-Café Annemarie" in
Kleinarl
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Geography
The municipal area is located in the Pongau region within the Central Eastern Alps, on the northern rim of the High Tauern national park ...
, which was decorated with her extensive cup and trophy collection.
She married Herbert Moser in 1974 and their daughter Marion was born in 1982. In December 2003 her first grandchild was born.
Eight months after the death of her husband, she retired from the gastronomy business in 2008 and sold the establishment to local entrepreneurs, who keep running it as "Café-Restaurant Olympia."
World Cup results
Season standings
Season titles
* 16 titles – (6 overall, 7
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, 3
giant slalom) plus unofficial titles in
combined
Race victories
* 62 wins – (36
downhill
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, 16
giant slalom, 3
slalom, 7
combined)
References
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Alpine skiers at the 1972 Winter Olympics
Alpine skiers at the 1980 Winter Olympics
Olympic gold medalists for Austria
Olympic silver medalists for Austria
1953 births
Living people
Olympic medalists in alpine skiing
FIS Alpine Ski World Cup champions
Medalists at the 1980 Winter Olympics
Medalists at the 1972 Winter Olympics
Olympic alpine skiers of Austria
Austrian female alpine skiers
Sportspeople from Salzburg (state)