Alexandra Meissnitzer, Date of Birth, Place of Birth

Alexandra Meissnitzer

Austrian former alpine skier

Date of Birth: 18-Jun-1973

Place of Birth: Abtenau, Salzburg, Austria

Profession: alpine skier

Nationality: Austria

Zodiac Sign: Gemini

Alexandra Meissnitzer (born 18 June 1973) is a retired alpine skier from Austria.
Her specialities are the downhill, super-G and giant slalom disciplines. She comes from Abtenau, Salzburg.
Her father, Hans Meissnitzer, a mechanic by trade, taught her to ski at an early age. In the 1998 Winter Olympics at Nagano, Meissnitzer won the silver in the giant-slalom and the bronze in the super-G race, and in the 2006 Winter Olympics at Turin she won the bronze 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.
Being heavy injured after a fell in a training in November 1999, she missed the following seasons.
At the 2003 Alpine World Ski Championships, she won the silver medal in the downhill race (in a tie with Corinne Rey-Bellet) behind Melanie Turgeon. 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.