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Elisabeth Görgl (born 20 February 1981) is a retired
Elisabeth Görgl
World Cup standings at the International Ski Federation * * – '
Austrian Ski team
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World Cup
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alpine ski racer from Austria.
Born in Bruck an der Mur
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, Styria
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, Görgl made her World Cup debut in March 2000 and has reached World Cup podiums in all five alpine disciplines, with multiple victories in giant slalom
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, super-G
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, and downhill. In January 2008, she won her first World Cup race in the giant slalom at Maribor
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, Slovenia.
At the 2009 World Championships at Val d'Isère
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, Görgl won a bronze medal in super combined
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. In 2011
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at Garmisch-Partenkirchen
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, she won two gold medals, the first in the 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 ...
and a second in the downhill five days later. Her sweep of the two women's speed events marked the third consecutive occurrence at the World Championships – preceded by Lindsey Vonn
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in 2009
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at Val d'Isere and Anja Pärson
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in 2007
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Events
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at Ã…re
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.
At the 2010 Winter Olympics
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, Görgl won the bronze medal in the downhill – the same medal in the same event as her mother half a century earlier at the 1960
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and the 1964
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Winter Olympics. A week later she also won bronze in the giant slalom
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. Görgl also participated in 4 disciplines in the 2014 Winter Olympics
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(Downhill, giant slalom, super-G, combined).
On 12 June 2017 she announced her retirement from active skiing. Her last race was a Super-G in Aspen
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in March the same year.
Personal
Görgl is the daughter of Traudl Hecher (b. 1943), an alpine racer for Austria in the early 1960s. She won Olympic bronze medals in the downhill in1960
It is also known as the "Year of Africa" because of major events—particularly the independence of seventeen African nations—that focused global attention on the continent and intensified feelings of Pan-Africanism.
Events January
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(at age 16) and 1964
Events January
* January 1 – The Federation of Rhodesia and Nyasaland is dissolved.
* January 5 – In the first meeting between leaders of the Roman Catholic and Orthodox churches since the fifteenth century, Pope Paul VI and Patria ...
, and remains the youngest Olympic medalist in alpine skiing. Görgl's older brother Stephan (b. 1978) is a former World Cup alpine racer; he competed in the giant slalom
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at the 2006 Winter Olympics
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.
World Cup results
Season standings
* Ranking and pointsRace victories
* 7 wins – (2 DH, 3 SG, 2 GS) * 42 podiums – (14 DH, 6 SG, 15 GS, 3 SL, 1 PS, 3 SC)World championships
Winter Olympics
References
External links
*Elisabeth Görgl
World Cup standings at the International Ski Federation * * – '
Austrian Ski team
– official site – Elisabeth Görgl – '
Head Skis
– teams – Elisabeth Görgl {{DEFAULTSORT:Gorgl, Elisabeth 1981 births Living people Sportspeople from Bruck an der Mur Olympic alpine skiers for Austria Alpine skiers at the 2006 Winter Olympics Alpine skiers at the 2010 Winter Olympics Olympic bronze medalists for Austria Olympic medalists in alpine skiing Austrian female alpine skiers Medalists at the 2010 Winter Olympics Alpine skiers at the 2014 Winter Olympics Skiers from Styria 20th-century Austrian women 21st-century Austrian sportswomen