Andrea Fischbacher (born 14 October 1985) is a retired
alpine ski racer from Austria.
Career
Born in
Schwarzach im Pongau
Schwarzach im Pongau is a market town in the St. Johann im Pongau District in the Austrian state of Salzburg.
Geography
It is located in the valley of the Salzach river, between the Hohe Tauern mountain range (Goldberg and Ankogel groups) in the ...
,
Salzburg
Salzburg (, ; literally "Salt-Castle"; bar, Soizbuag, label= Austro-Bavarian) is the fourth-largest city in Austria. In 2020, it had a population of 156,872.
The town is on the site of the Roman settlement of ''Iuvavum''. Salzburg was founded ...
, Fischbacher now lives in
Eben im Pongau
Eben im Pongau is a municipality in the St. Johann im Pongau district in the Austrian state of Salzburg.
Geography
The municipality lies on the northwest edge of the Radstadt basin in the Ennspongau. To the south is the valley of the upper Enns, ...
. She made her
World Cup
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debut in March 2004 in
Sestriere
Sestriere (/se'strjɛre/) ( oc, Sestrieras, pms, Ël Sestrier, french: Sestrières) is a ski resort in Piedmont, Italy, a ''comune'' (municipality) of the Metropolitan City of Turin. It is situated in Val Susa, from the French border. Its name ...
, Italy, where she would claim her first World Cup victory four years later, a dead-heat tie with
Fabienne Suter. Fischbacher competed for Austria at the
Winter Olympics
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in
2006 and again in
2010, where she won the gold medal in the
Super-G
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, ahead of
Tina Maze
Tina Maze (; born 2 May 1983) is a retired Slovenian World Cup alpine ski racer.
Career
Maze is the most successful Slovenian ski racer in history with a career that culminated with two gold medals at the 2014 Winter Olympics. She was awarded t ...
and
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 ...
. In the
Downhill
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on February 17, she finished 4th, missing the bronze medal by 0.03 seconds.
Left off the
Austrian team for the
2014 Winter Olympics, Fischbacher responded with a victory in the first race after the games, her first World Cup podium in over four years.
World Cup results
Race podiums
*3 wins – (2
DH, 1
SG)
*10 podiums – (3
DH, 6
SG, 1
GS)
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Tie for first with Fabienne Suter.
Season standings
World Championship results
Olympic results
Personal
Fischbacher is a
second cousin
Most generally, in the lineal kinship system used in the English-speaking world, a cousin is a type of familial relationship in which two relatives are two or more familial generations away from their most recent common ancestor. Commonly, ...
of
Hermann Maier
Hermann Maier (born 7 December 1972) is an Austrian former World Cup champion alpine ski racer and Olympic gold medalist. Nicknamed the "Herminator", Maier ranks among the greatest alpine ski racers in history, with four overall World Cup tit ...
, a multiple Olympic, World Cup, and world champion.
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References
External links
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Austrian Ski team– official site – Andrea Fischbacher – '
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1985 births
Austrian female alpine skiers
Alpine skiers at the 2006 Winter Olympics
Alpine skiers at the 2010 Winter Olympics
Olympic alpine skiers of Austria
Medalists at the 2010 Winter Olympics
Olympic medalists in alpine skiing
Olympic gold medalists for Austria
People from St. Johann im Pongau District
Living people
Sportspeople from Salzburg (state)