Roswitha Stadlober (née Steiner) (born 14 June 1963 in Radstadt,

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n former alpine skier.

Career

She concluded her career at the end of the 1987/1988 season by clinching her second Slalom World Cup title, also winning her last race in

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. She is married to

Alois Stadlober Alois Stadlober (born 11 April 1962 in Judenburg) is an Austrian former cross-country skier who competed from 1988 to 2000. He earned two medals at the 1999 FIS Nordic World Ski Championships with a gold in the 4 x 10 km relay an ...

, a former

n cross-country skier and world champion at the 1999 FIS Nordic World Ski Championships. Their son Luis Stadlober and daughter Teresa Stadlober are also competitive cross-country skiers. Roswitha has served as a member of the executive committee of the Austrian Ski Federation since 2011. In October 2021, she became the first female president of the Federation, after having served as senior vice-president.

Achievements

1984 Winter Olympics The 1984 Winter Olympics, officially known as the XIV Olympic Winter Games (Serbo-Croatian language, Serbo-Croatian and Slovene language, Slovene: ; Serbian Cyrillic alphabet, Serbian Cyrillic: ; ) and commonly known as Sarajevo '84 (Serbian Cy ...

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: * fourth place at

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Slalom

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: * fourth place at

Slalom Alpine skiing World Championship 1982 in

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: * tenth at

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* seventh at Slalom Alpine skiing World Championship 1987 in

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place at Slalom 1984 Austrian Alpine Ski Championships * first place at Slalom skiing 8 World Cup race victories at Slalom Two time Slalom World Cup winner 1985/86 and 1987/88 (There are statistics, that she would have shared first title with

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; she and Erika did gain 110 points, but Roswitha did achieve four victories, therefore she is the sole winner.)

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* * {{DEFAULTSORT:Steiner, Roswitha 1963 births Living people Austrian female alpine skiers Olympic alpine skiers for Austria Alpine skiers at the 1984 Winter Olympics Alpine skiers at the 1988 Winter Olympics FIS Alpine Ski World Cup champions Skiing executives People from Radstadt Skiers from Salzburg (federal state) 20th-century Austrian sportswomen 21st-century Austrian women