Michaela Dorfmeister (born 25 March 1973) is a former

World Cup A world cup is a global sporting competition in which the participant entities – usually international teams or individuals representing their countries – compete for the title of world champion. The event most associated with the concept i ...

alpine ski racer from Austria. Her specialities were both the downhill and the super-G disciplines, although she skied in and had success in giant slalom.

Biography

Born in

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, Dorfmeister is the only daughter of a butcher by trade, and lived in Vienna until she was age six. She later studied at the

Schladming Schladming is a small former mining town in the northwest of the Austrian state of Styria that is now a popular tourist destination. It has become a large winter-sports resort and has held various skiing competitions, including most notably the F ...

ski academy, which has produced many of Austria's skiing greats. Dorfmeister raced her first international season in 1983 and entered her first World Cup race in 1991 at Serre Chevalier coming 26. Her first podium place was in 1995 at the St. Anton downhill which she won. This was followed by a total of 25 victories (7 in downhill, 10 in super-G and 8 in giant slalom) In 2000, she won the giant slalom World Cup, and in 2002 the overall World Cup. She won two more speciality World Cups, in 2003 (downhill) and 2005 (super-G). At the

2006 Winter Olympics The 2006 Winter Olympics, officially the XX Olympic Winter Games ( it, XX Giochi olimpici invernali) and also known as Torino 2006, were a winter multi-sport event held from 10 to 26 February 2006 in Turin, Italy. This marked the second ...

, she won the gold medal in the downhill and super-G races. Dorfmeister's win in the Hafjell super-G on 3 March 2006 made her the oldest woman to win a World Cup race.

World Cup results

Season titles

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2000 File:2000 Events Collage.png, From left, clockwise: Protests against Bush v. Gore after the 2000 United States presidential election; Heads of state meet for the Millennium Summit; The International Space Station in its infant form as seen from S ...

, , Giant slalom , - , 2002, , Overall , - , 2003, , Downhill , - , 2005, , Super-G , - , rowspan=2, 2006, , Downhill , - , Super-G

Season standings

{, class=wikitable style="text-align:center" !Season !! Age !! Overall !! Slalom !! Giant
Slalom !! Super-G !! Downhill !!Combined , - , 1992 , , ''18'' , , 103 , , — , , — , , 55 , , 47 , , — , - ,

1993 File:1993 Events Collage.png, From left, clockwise: The Oslo I Accord is signed in an attempt to resolve the Israeli–Palestinian conflict; The Russian White House is shelled during the 1993 Russian constitutional crisis; Czechoslovakia is peacefu ...

, , ''19'' , , 117 , , — , , — , , — , , 49 , , — , - ,

1994 File:1994 Events Collage.png, From left, clockwise: The 1994 Winter Olympics are held in Lillehammer, Norway; The Kaiser Permanente building after the 1994 Northridge earthquake; A model of the MS Estonia, which sank in the Baltic Sea; Nelson ...

, , ''20'' , , 95 , , — , , — , , 44 , , 52 , , — , - ,

1995 File:1995 Events Collage V2.png, From left, clockwise: O.J. Simpson is acquitted of the murders of Nicole Brown Simpson and Ronald Goldman from the year prior in "The Trial of the Century" in the United States; The Great Hanshin earthquake str ...

, , ''21'' , , 18 , , — , , 23 , , 16 , , 13 , , 9 , - , 1996 , , ''22'' , , 9 , , — , , 12 , , 6 , , 8 , , 7 , - ,

1997 File:1997 Events Collage.png, From left, clockwise: The movie set of ''Titanic'', the highest-grossing movie in history at the time; '' Harry Potter and the Philosopher's Stone'', is published; Comet Hale-Bopp passes by Earth and becomes one of ...

, , ''23'' , , 39 , , — , , 27 , , 20 , , 29 , , — , - ,

1998 1998 was designated as the ''International Year of the Ocean''. Events January * January 6 – The ''Lunar Prospector'' spacecraft is launched into orbit around the Moon, and later finds evidence for frozen water, in soil in permanently s ...

, , ''24'' , , 33 , , — , , — , , 16 , , 16 , , 20 , - ,

1999 File:1999 Events Collage.png, From left, clockwise: The funeral procession of King Hussein of Jordan in Amman; the 1999 İzmit earthquake kills over 17,000 people in Turkey; the Columbine High School massacre, one of the first major school shoot ...

, , ''25'' , , 6 , , 47 , , — , , bgcolor="silver", 2 , , bgcolor="cc9966", 3 , , 4 , - ,

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Race victories

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Super-G Super giant slalom, or super-G, is a racing discipline of alpine skiing. Along with the faster downhill, it is regarded as a "speed" event, in contrast to the technical events giant slalom and slalom. It debuted as an official World Cup event d ...

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World Championship results

{, class=wikitable style="text-align:center" ! Year !! Age !! Slalom !! Giant
Slalom !! Super-G !! Downhill !!Combined , - , 1996 , , ''22'' , , — , , 9 , , 29 , , 11 , , 12 , - ,

, , ''23'' , , — , , 17 , , 8 , , 16 , , 12 , - ,

, , ''25'' , , — , , — , , bgcolor="cc9966", 3 , , style="background:silver;", 2 , , 6 , - , 2001 , , ''27'' , , — , , 8 , , 24 , , style="background:gold;", 1 , , — , - , 2003 , , ''29'' , , — , , 4 , , style="background:gold;", 1 , , 12 , , — , - , 2005 , , ''31'' , , — , , DNF1 , , DNF , , DNF , , —

Olympic results

{, class=wikitable style="text-align:center" ! Year !! Age !! Slalom !! Giant
Slalom !! Super-G !! Downhill !!Combined , - ,

, , ''24'' , , — , , — , , style="background:silver;", 2 , , 18 , , — , - , 2002 , , ''28'' , , — , , 4 , , 6 , , 9 , , 5 , - , 2006 , , ''32'' , , — , , — , , style="background:gold;", 1 , , style="background:gold", 1 , , —

References

External links

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World Cup standings at the International Ski Federation * * {{DEFAULTSORT:Dorfmeister, Michaela 1973 births Austrian female alpine skiers Alpine skiers at the 1998 Winter Olympics Alpine skiers at the 2002 Winter Olympics Alpine skiers at the 2006 Winter Olympics Olympic alpine skiers of Austria Medalists at the 1998 Winter Olympics Medalists at the 2006 Winter Olympics Olympic medalists in alpine skiing Olympic gold medalists for Austria Olympic silver medalists for Austria FIS Alpine Ski World Cup champions Sportspeople from Vienna Living people 20th-century Austrian women 21st-century Austrian women