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Michaela Dorfmeister

Michaela Dorfmeister (born March 25, 1973 in Vienna

Vienna

Vienna is the Capital of Republic of Austria and also one of the nine states of Austria. Vienna is Austria's primary city, with a population of about 1.7 million...
) is a professional alpine skier from Austria. Her specialities are both the Downhill and Super-G disciplines, although she skis in and has had success in Giant Slalom.

only daughter of a butcher by trade, Dorfmeister lived in Vienna until she was 6. She later studied at the Schladming

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Michaela Dorfmeister (born March 25, 1973 in Vienna

Vienna

Biography

The only daughter of a butcher by trade, Dorfmeister lived in Vienna until she was 6. She later studied at the Schladming

Schladming

Schladming is a small mining town in the Styria area of Austria, that is now very popular with tourists. It has become a large ski resort and has held various skiing competitions recently....
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

2006 Winter Olympics

The 2006 Winter Olympics, officially known as the XX Olympic Winter Games, were a winter multi-sport event which was celebrated in Turin, Italy from February 10, 2006, through February 26, 2006....
, 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

World Cup victories

Overall

Season	Discipline
2000 2000 Alpine Skiing World Cup The 34th World Cup season began in October 1999 and concluded at the World Cup finals in March 2000. The overall winners were Hermann Maier and Renate G?tschl, both of Austria....	Giant Slalom
2002 2002 Alpine Skiing World Cup The 2002 in sports Alpine Skiing World Cup began in October 2001 and ended in March 2002 at the World Cup finals held in Altenmarkt im Pongau, Austria....	Overall
2003 2003 Alpine Skiing World Cup The 37th Alpine Skiing World Cup season began in October 2002 on S?lden, Austria, and concluded in March 2003 at the World Cup finals in Lillehammer, Norway....	Downhill
2006 2006 Alpine Skiing World Cup The 2006 Alpine Skiing World Cup began in October 2005 and concluded at the World Cup finals in ?re, Sweden, in March 2006. The schedule for the 40th World Cup season included a nearly four-week long break in February for the Alpine skiing at the 2006 Winter Olympics in Turin, Italy....	Downhill
2005 2005 Alpine Skiing World Cup The 39th Alpine Skiing World Cup season began in October 2004 in S?lden, Austria, and concluded in March 2005 at the World Cup finals in Lenzerheide, Switzerland....	Super-G
2006 2006 Alpine Skiing World Cup The 2006 Alpine Skiing World Cup began in October 2005 and concluded at the World Cup finals in ?re, Sweden, in March 2006. The schedule for the 40th World Cup season included a nearly four-week long break in February for the Alpine skiing at the 2006 Winter Olympics in Turin, Italy....	Super-G

Individual races

Date	Location	Race
December 16, 1995		Downhill
6 march 1999	St. Moritz St. Moritz St. Moritz is an exclusive resort town in the Engadine valley in Switzerland. It is a municipalities of Switzerland in the Maloja in the Switzerland Cantons of Switzerland of Graub?nden....	Super-G
December 4, 1999		Giant Slalom
December 9, 1999		Giant Slalom
January 5, 2000	Maribor Maribor Maribor is the second largest city in Slovenia. The population of Maribor is approximately 133,000 . Maribor lies on the river Drava at the meeting point of the Pohorje mountain, the Drava Valley, the Drava Plain, and the Kozjak and Slovenske gorice hill ranges....	Giant Slalom
january 8, 2000	Berchtesgaden Berchtesgaden Berchtesgaden is a Municipalities of Germany in the Germany Bavarian Alps. It is located in the south district of Berchtesgadener Land in Bavaria, near the border with Austria, some 30 km south of Salzburg and 180 km southeast of Munich....	Giant Slalom
February 11, 2000	Santa Caterina Santa Caterina di Valfurva Santa Caterina di Valfurva is a frazione of the comune of Valfurva, in the northern Italy province of Sondrio. It is home to a popular ski resort, with many Alpine skiing World Cup races taking place in the resort....	Super-G
November 24, 2000		Super-G
December 9, 2000	Sestriere Sestriere Sestriere is an alpine village in Italy, a comune of the Province of Turin. It is 17 km from the French border. Its name derives from Latin language: ad petram sistrariam, that is at sixty Roman miles from Turin....	Giant Slalom
October 27, 2001		Giant Slalom
19 january 2002		Giant Slalom
31 january 2002	Åre Åre ?re is one of the leading Scandinavian ski resorts , situated in ?re Municipality, J?mtland County, Sweden. It is however, not the seat of the municipality, which is J?rpen....	Giant Slalom
6 march 2002	Altenmarkt Altenmarkt im Pongau Altenmarkt im Pongau is a small town in the Salzburg state of Austria. Altenmarkt is situated 65 km South East of Salzburg. The town occupies an area of approximately 48 km? and sits at 842 metres above sea level.The town is principally known for its winter tourism....	Downhill
7 march 2002		Super-G
December 21, 2002	Lenzerheide Lenzerheide File:Lenzerheide Danis.jpgFile:Lenzerheide Hochtal.jpgLenzerheide is a mountain resort in the canton of Graub?nden, Switzerland. It lies at the foot of the Parpaner Rothorn....	Downhill
1 march 2003	Innsbruck Innsbruck Innsbruck is the Capital of the federal state of Tyrol in western Austria. It is located in the Inn River Valley at the junction with the Wipptal , which provides access to the Brenner Pass, some 30 km south of Innsbruck....	Downhill
December 5, 2004	Lake Louise Lake Louise Mountain Resort Lake Louise Mountain Resort is a ski resort located in Banff National Park, in the village of Lake Louise, Alberta, Alberta. It can be reached from Banff, Alberta, from where it is almost a one-hour drive west on Trans-Canada Highway....	Super-G
January 6, 2005		Downhill
January 16, 2005	Cortina d'Ampezzo Cortina d'Ampezzo Cortina d'Ampezzo is a town and municipality in Alps and the province of Belluno, Veneto, northern Italy. Located in the heart of the Dolomites in an alpine valley, it is a popular winter sport resort known for its ski-ranges, scenery, accommodations, shops and apr?s-ski scene....	Downhill
February 19, 2005		Super-G
11 march 2005		Super-G
December 18, 2005		Super-G
January 20, 2006		Super-G
January 21, 2006		Downhill
3 march 2006	Hafjell Hafjell Hafjell is a village and a ski resort in Norway, in the ?yer municipalities of Norway in the counties of Norway of Oppland.Hafjell hosted the Alpine skiing techincal events at the Alpine skiing at the 1994 Winter Olympics; the speed events were held at Kvitfjell....	Super-G

Michaela Dorfmeister

Biography

World Cup victories

Overall

Individual races

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