Roswitha Stadlober (née Steiner) (born 14 June 1963 in

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) is an

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n former alpine skier.

Career

She concluded her career at the end of the 1987/1988 season by clinching her second Slalom World Cup title, also winning her last race in

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. She is married to

Alois Stadlober Alois Stadlober (born 11 April 1962 in Judenburg) is an Austria Austria, , bar, Östareich officially the Republic of Austria, is a country in the southern part of Central Europe, lying in the Eastern Alps. It is a federation of nine ...

, a former

n cross-country skier and world champion at the

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. Their son Luis Stadlober and daughter

Teresa Stadlober Teresa Stadlober (born February 1, 1993) is an Austrian cross-country skier. She first competed at the Winter Olympics in 2014 Winter Olympics in Sochi, in skiathlon and women's classical. She won individual Olympic medal at the 2022 Winter ...

are also competitive cross-country skiers. Roswitha has served as a member of the executive committee of the Austrian Ski Federation since 2011. In October 2021, she became the first female president of the Federation, after having served as senior vice-president.

Achievements

1984 Winter Olympics The 1984 Winter Olympics, officially known as the XIV Olympic Winter Games (Serbo-Croatian and Slovene: ''XIV. Zimske olimpijske igre''; Cyrillic: XIV Зимске олимпијске игре; mk, XIV Зимски олимписки игр ...

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: * fourth place at alpine skiing Slalom 1988 Winter Olympics in Calgary: * fourth place at alpine skiing Slalom Alpine skiing World Championship 1982 in

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 ...

: * tenth at Giant Slalom * seventh at Slalom Alpine skiing World Championship 1987 in

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place at Slalom 1984 Austrian Alpine Ski Championships * first place at Slalom skiing 8 World Cup race victories at Slalom Two time Slalom World Cup winner 1985/86 and 1987/88 (There are statistics, that she would have shared first title with

Erika Hess Erika Hess (born 6 March 1962) is a former World Cup alpine ski racer from Switzerland. One of the best female racers of the 1980s, Hess had 31 World Cup wins (22 in slalom), four slalom titles (1981– 83 and 1985), and two overall titles ( 198 ...

; she and Erika did gain 110 points, but Roswitha did achieve four victories, therefore she is the only one winner.)

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* * {{DEFAULTSORT:Steiner, Roswitha 1963 births Living people Austrian female alpine skiers Olympic alpine skiers of Austria Alpine skiers at the 1984 Winter Olympics Alpine skiers at the 1988 Winter Olympics FIS Alpine Ski World Cup champions Skiing executives People from Radstadt Sportspeople from Salzburg (state) 20th-century Austrian women 21st-century Austrian women