Annemarie Moser-Pröll
Annemarie Moser-Pröll | |
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Full name | Annemarie Moser-Pröll |
Born | Kleinarl, Salzburg, Austria | 27 March 1953
World Cup career | |
Seasons | 1969 - 1980 |
Indiv. podiums | 114 |
Indiv. wins | 62 |
Updated on 2010-12-22. |
Olympic medal record | ||
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Representing Austria | ||
Women’s alpine skiing | ||
1980 Lake Placid | Downhill | |
1972 Sapporo | Downhill | |
1972 Sapporo | Giant slalom | |
World Championships | ||
1972 Sapporo | Combined | |
1974 St. Moritz | Downhill | |
1978 Garmisch-Partenkirchen | Downhill | |
1978 Garmisch-Partenkirchen | Combined | |
1970 Val Gardena | Downhill | |
1978 Garmisch-Partenkirchen | Giant Slalom |
Annemarie Moser-Pröll (born 27 March 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. She won five World Championship titles (3 downhill, 2 combined) and one Olympic gold medal.
The way to her first and only Olympic gold medal was quite long: At the 1972 games in Sapporo, Japan, she was considered the clear favourite for downhill and giant slalom, but in both events she finished second behind Swiss Marie-Theres Nadig. At the end of 1975, when she was still the top racer in female World Cup, she interrupted her skiing career to look after her father who had fallen ill with lung cancer, so she missed the 1976 Winter Olympics in Innsbruck, Austria. After the death of her father in June 1976, she resumed competitive skiing and was right away among the best, with second places in the overall World Cup for two seasons (1977, 1978), before she won the title again, for the sixth time, in 1979. Finally at the 1980 Winter Olympics in Lake Placid, USA, she finished her extraordinary career by winning the downhill gold medal in front of Marie-Theres Nadig.
A few weeks after having won the Olympic gold medal she retired from competitive skiing and started to run her own cafe, the "Weltcup-Café Annemarie" in Kleinarl, which was decorated with her extensive cup and trophy collection.
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.
2008, eight months after the death of her husband, she retired from the gastronomy business and sold the cafe to local entrepreneurs who keep runing it as „Café-Restaurant Olympia“.
World Cup victories
Season titles
Season | Discipline |
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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
62 total (36 downhill, 16 giant slalom, 3 slalom, 7 combined)
Date | Location | Race |
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January 17, 1970 | Maribor | Giant Slalom |
January 6, 1971 | Maribor | Slalom |
January 29, 1971 | St. Gervais | Slalom |
February 18, 1971 | Sugarloaf | Downhill |
February 19, 1971 | Sugarloaf | Downhill |
March 10, 1971 | Abetone | Giant Slalom |
March 11, 1971 | Abetone | Giant Slalom |
March 14, 1971 | Åre | Giant Slalom |
December 3, 1971 | St. Moritz | Downhill |
December 17, 1971 | Bardonecchia | Downhill |
January 12, 1972 | Bad Gastein | Downhill |
January 18, 1972 | Grindelwald | Downhill |
January 22, 1972 | St. Gervais | Giant Slalom |
February 19, 1972 | Banff | Giant Slalom |
February 25, 1972 | Crystal Mountain | Downhill |
1 March 1972 | Heavenly Valley | Giant Slalom |
December 7, 1972 | Val d'Isere | Giant Slalom |
December 19, 1972 | Saalbach | Downhill |
December 20, 1972 | Saalbach | Giant Slalom |
January 9, 1973 | Pfronten | Downhill |
January 10, 1973 | Pfronten | Downhill |
January 16, 1973 | Grindelwald | Downhill |
January 20, 1973 | St. Gervais | Giant Slalom |
January 25, 1973 | Chamonix | Downhill |
February 2, 1973 | Schruns | Downhill |
February 10, 1973 | St. Moritz | Downhill |
March 2, 1973 | Mont St. Anne | Giant Slalom |
December 3, 1973 | Val d'Isere | Downhill |
December 19, 1973 | Zell am See | Downhill |
January 5, 1974 | Pfronten | Downhill |
January 23, 1974 | Badgastein | Downhill |
December 7, 1974 | Val d'Isere | Downhill |
December 12, 1974 | Cortina d'Ampezzo | Downhill |
December 15, 1974 | Maribor | Giant Slalom |
January 9, 1975 | Grindelwald | Downhill |
January 10, 1975 | Grindelwald | Giant Slalom |
February 10, 1975 | Grindelwald | Combined |
January 11, 1975 | Grindelwald | Giant Slalom |
January 16, 1975 | Schruns | Combined |
January 31, 1975 | St. Gervais | Combined |
February 22, 1975 | Naeba | Giant Slalom |
December 15, 1976 | Cortina d'Ampezzo | Downhill |
December 16, 1976 | Cortina d'Ampezzo | Combined |
January 7, 1977 | Pfronten | Downhill |
January 9, 1977 | Garmisch | Downhill |
January 6, 1978 | Pfronten | Downhill |
January 7, 1978 | Pfronten | Downhill |
January 13, 1978 | Les Diablerets | Downhill |
March 11, 1978 | Badgastein | Downhill |
March 12, 1978 | Bad Kleinkirchheim | Downhill |
March 17, 1978 | Arosa | Giant Slalom |
December 9, 1978 | Piancavallo | Downhill |
December 17, 1978 | Val d'Isere | Downhill |
January 12, 1979 | Les Diablerets | Downhill |
January 17, 1979 | Meiringen | Downhill |
January 19, 1979 | Meiringen | Combined |
January 26, 1979 | Schruns | Downhill |
February 4, 1979 | Pfronten | Combined |
March 2, 1979 | Lake Placid | Downhill |
December 14, 1979 | Piancavallo | Combined |
December 15, 1979 | Piancavallo | Slalom |
January 6, 1980 | Pfronten | Downhill |
External links
- Template:PND
- Annemarie-Mose-Proell.at - official site - Template:De icon
- FIS-ski.com - results - Annemarie Moser-Pröll
- FIS-ski.com - World Cup season standings - Annemarie Moser-Pröll - 1969-80
- Ski-DB.com - Results - Annemarie Proell