Veronika Preining-Breuer (born 21 November 1965) is an Austrian Paralympic skier. She represented Austria in

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at the 1984 Paralympic Winter Games in Innsbruck and in

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at the 1988 Paralympic Winter Games in Innsbruck. She won six medals, two gold, three silvers and a bronze.

Career

At the 1984 Paralympic Winter Games in Innsbruck, she finished first in

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in 2: 06.14 ( Sheila Holzworth finished the race in 2: 32.42 and Cara Dunne in 2:36.93). She won a silver medal in super combined B1 (with a realized time of 2:44.63), and bronze in the giant slalom race category B1 in 6:15.91. At the

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, she won gold in the 5 km race in front of the Finnish athlete Kirsti Pennanen and the Russian

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, the silver in the 10 km race, and the bronze in the 3x5 km event in category B1-3. She competed at the 1990 World Nordic disabled championships, winning a gold medal, in 10 kilometers.

References

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