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Annemarie Moser-Pröll

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Olympic medal record
Women’s alpine skiing
Gold medal – first place 1980 Lake Placid Downhill
Silver medal – second place 1972 Sapporo Downhill
Silver medal – second place 1972 Sapporo Giant slalom
World Championships
Gold medal – first place 1972 Sapporo Combined
Gold medal – first place 1974 St. Moritz Downhill
Gold medal – first place 1978 Garmisch-Partenkirchen Downhill
Gold medal – first place 1978 Garmisch-Partenkirchen Combined
Bronze medal – third place 1970 Val Gardena Downhill
Bronze medal – third place 1978 Garmisch-Partenkirchen Giant Slalom

Annemarie Moser-Pröll (born March 27, 1953 in Kleinarl, Salzburg, Austria) is a former champion alpine ski racer. She was the most successful female World Cup racer during the 1970s. She celebrated her biggest successes in Downhill, Giant Slalom and Combined races. In 1980, her last year as a competitor, she secured her third Olympic medal and first gold medal (in Lake Placid) and won 5 World Cup races.

Career

During her career, she won the overall World Cup title a record six times, including five consecutive (1971–75). She has 62 individual World Cup victories, more than any other female athlete and behind only Ingemar Stenmark and Ole Einar Bjørndalen among all winter ski sport athletes.

In 1980, just after winning the Olympic gold medal she retired from competitive skiing. Since then she has been working in the gastronomy business. Her extensive cup and trophy collection decorates her own cafe, the "Weltcup-Cafe Annemarie" in Kleinarl. She has been married to Herbert Moser since 1974 and her daughter Marion was born in 1982. In December 2003 her first grandchild was born.

World Cup victories

Season titles

Season Discipline
1971 Overall
Downhill
Giant slalom
1972 Overall
Downhill
Giant Slalom
1973 Overall
Downhill
1974 Overall
Downhill
1975 Overall
Downhill
Giant slalom
Combined
1978 Downhill
1979 Overall
Downhill
Combined

Race victories

Additionally 62 World Cup race victories (36 Downhill, 16 Giant Slalom, 3 Slalom, 7 Combined)




Awards
Preceded by Austrian Sportswoman of the year
1973 – 1975
Succeeded by
Preceded by Austrian Sportswoman of the year
1977 – 1980
Succeeded by

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