Corinne Rey-Bellet (2 August 1972 – 30 April 2006) was a Swiss alpine

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. Rey-Bellet shared a

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silver medal in the downhill event in St. Moritz in 2003 (in a tie with

Alexandra Meissnitzer Alexandra Meissnitzer (born 18 June 1973) is a retired World Cup alpine ski racer from Austria. Her specialities were the downhill, super-G, and giant slalom disciplines. From Abtenau, Salzburg, her father, Hans Meissnitzer, a mechanic by trade, ...

) and won a total of five

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races. Her "double win" (two race wins on the same day) at St. Anton am Arlberg on 16 January 1999 is the only double win in the women's Alpine World Cup. She retired in 2003 due to a series of injuries sustained to her right knee.

Death

Rey-Bellet was shot and killed in her parents' home in the Swiss village of Les Crosets, Canton

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on Sunday, 30 April 2006http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/world/europe/4961784.stm Former Swiss skiing star killed - BBCNews by her husband Gerold Stadler. She was three months pregnant. Her brother Alain, who was to have been married the following Friday, was also killed, and her mother Verena was severely injured. Corinne's two-year-old son, Kevin, home at the time of the attack, was left unharmed, and Corinne's father was not home at the time. A warrant was issued for the arrest of her husband. The couple had separated approximately 10 days before the murders took place. Stadler – a private banker with Credit Suisse and captain in the

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– was the father of their two-year-old son. His body was recovered in a forest on 3 May 2006. The Swiss police eventually confirmed that Stadler committed suicide using the same gun – his military weapon – with which he had killed Rey-Bellet and her brother.

World cup victories

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