Annemarie Moser-Pröll (born 27 March 1953) is a former

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alpine ski racer from

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. Born in

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, she was the most successful female alpine ski racer during the 1970s, with six overall titles, including five consecutive. Moser-Pröll celebrated her biggest successes in

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and combined races. In

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, her last year as a competitor, she secured her third

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medal (and first gold) at Lake Placid and won five World Cup races. Her younger sister

Cornelia Pröll Cornelia Pröll (born 21 January 1961) is an Austrian former alpine skier who competed in the 1980 Winter Olympics. She was born in Kleinarl, the younger sister of Annemarie Moser-Pröll. Cornelia, named "Conny", finished 22nd in the Olympic Down ...

is also a former Olympic alpine skier.

Career

During her career, Moser-Pröll won the overall World Cup title a record six times, including five consecutive (1971–75). She has 62 individual World Cup victories, third behind

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and

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on the female side. In winning percentage (races won of those entered) her percentage of 35.4% is second only to

who has won 37.5% of her races. She won five World Championship titles (3 downhill, 2 combined) and one Olympic gold medal. Of all female skiers, she is the one who won most races of a single discipline in a row (11 downhill races: all eight of the 1972–73 World Cup season, plus the first three of the following season). The way to her first and only Olympic gold medal was quite long: At the 1972 games in

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, Japan, she was considered the clear favourite for downhill and giant slalom, but in both events she finished second behind

Marie-Theres Nadig Marie-Theres Nadig (born 8 March 1954) is a retired Swiss alpine skier. Biography Aged 17, she won gold medals in the downhill and giant slalom events at the 1972 Winter Olympics. During her career, Nadig won 24 world cup A world cup is a ...

of Switzerland. After winning a fifth consecutive title in overall and downhill, she interrupted her racing career to care for her ailing father, afflicted with lung cancer. She missed the entire 1975–76 World Cup season, including the

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, in her home country of Austria. After the death of her father in June 1976, she resumed competitive skiing and was immediately among the best, with second place in the overall World Cup standings for two seasons (

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, 1977–78), and won the overall title for the sixth time in

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. At the

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in Lake Placid, USA, she finished her extraordinary career by winning the downhill gold medal – with her 1972-rival Marie-Theres Nadig again on the podium, as bronze medalist.

After racing

Several weeks after the 1980 Olympics, she retired from competitive skiing and ran her own café, the "Weltcup-Café Annemarie" in

, which was decorated with her extensive cup and trophy collection. She married Herbert Moser in 1974 and their daughter Marion was born in 1982. In December 2003 her first grandchild was born. Eight months after the death of her husband, she retired from the gastronomy business in 2008 and sold the establishment to local entrepreneurs, who keep running it as "Café-Restaurant Olympia."

World Cup results

Season standings

Season titles

* 16 titles – (6 overall, 7

, 3

) plus unofficial titles in combined

Race victories

* 62 wins – (36

, 16

, 3

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, 7 combined)

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* * * * {{DEFAULTSORT:Moser-Proll, Annemarie Alpine skiers at the 1972 Winter Olympics Alpine skiers at the 1980 Winter Olympics Olympic gold medalists for Austria Olympic silver medalists for Austria 1953 births Living people Olympic medalists in alpine skiing FIS Alpine Ski World Cup champions Medalists at the 1980 Winter Olympics Medalists at the 1972 Winter Olympics Olympic alpine skiers of Austria Austrian female alpine skiers Sportspeople from Salzburg (state)