Michaela Dorfmeister

Michaela Dorfmeister

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Medal record
Women's alpine skiing
Representing Austria
Olympic Games
	2006 Turin	Downhill
	2006 Turin	Super-G
	1998 Nagano	Super-G
World Championships
	2001 St. Anton	Downhill
	2003 St. Moritz	Super-G
	1999 Vail	Downhill
	1999 Vail	Super-G

Michaela Dorfmeister (born 25 March 1973 in Vienna) is a former professional alpine skier from Austria. Her specialities are both the downhill and the super-G disciplines, although she skis in and has had success in giant slalom.

Biography

The only daughter of a butcher by trade, Dorfmeister lived in Vienna until she was 6. She later studied at the Schladming 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 26th. Her first podium place was in 1995 at the St. Anton downhill when she was 1st. 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 World Cup for giant slalom, and in 2002 the aggregate World Cup. She won two more speciality World Cups, in 2003 (downhill) and 2005 (super-G). At the 2006 Winter Olympics, 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 an Alpine Skiing World Cup race. [1]

World Cup victories

Overall

Season	Discipline
2000	Giant slalom
2002	Overall
2003	Downhill
2006	Downhill
2005	Super-G
2006	Super-G

Individual races

Date	Location	Race
16 December 1995	St. Anton	Downhill
6 March 1999	St. Moritz	Super-G
4 December 1999	Serre-Chevalier	Giant slalom
9 December 1999	Val-d'Isère	Giant slalom
5 January 2000	Maribor	Giant slalom
8 January 2000	Berchtesgaden	Giant slalom
11 February 2000	Santa Caterina	Super-G
24 November 2000	Aspen	Super-G
9 December 2000	Sestriere	Giant slalom
27 October 2001	Sölden	Giant slalom
19 January 2002	Berchtesgaden	Giant slalom
31 January 2002	Åre	Giant slalom
6 March 2002	Altenmarkt	Downhill
7 March 2002	Altenmarkt	Super-G
21 December 2002	Lenzerheide	Downhill
1 March 2003	Innsbruck	Downhill
5 December 2004	Lake Louise	Super-G
6 January 2005	Santa Caterina	Downhill
16 January 2005	Cortina d'Ampezzo	Downhill
19 February 2005	Åre	Super-G
11 March 2005	Lenzerheide	Super-G
18 December 2005	Val-d'Isère	Super-G
20 January 2006	St. Moritz	Super-G
21 January 2006	St. Moritz	Downhill
3 March 2006	Hafjell	Super-G

External links

• Michaela Dorfmeister's official web site
• Ski-DB.com – Results – Michaela Dorfmeister

Awards
Preceded by Mirna Jukić	Austrian Sportswoman of the year 2003	Succeeded by Kate Allen
Preceded by Renate Götschl	Austrian Sportswoman of the year 2006	Succeeded by Incumbent