Annemarie Moser-Pröll (born 27 March 1953) is a former World Cup alpine ski racer from Austria. Born in Kleinarl, Salzburg, she was the most successful female alpine ski racer during the 1970s, with an all-time women's record of six overall titles, including five consecutively. She had most success in downhill, giant slalom and combined races. In 1980, her last year as a competitor, she secured her third Olympic medal (and first gold) at Lake Placid and won five World Cup races. Her younger sister Cornelia Pröll is also a former alpine Olympian.[1]
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| Born | 27 March 1953 Kleinarl, Salzburg, Austria | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Occupation | Alpine skier | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Height | 1.70 m (5 ft 7 in) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Skiing career | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Disciplines | Technical events | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Club | Schiklub Kleinarl | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| World Cup debut | 1969 | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Retired | 1980 | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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| Teams | 2 | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Medals | 3 (1 gold) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| World Championships | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Teams | 9 | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Medals | 4 (5 gold) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| World Cup | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Seasons | 12 | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Wins | 62 | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Podiums | 113 | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Overall titles | 6 | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Discipline titles | 12 | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Medal record
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Career edit
During her career, Moser-Pröll won the overall World Cup title a record six times, including five consecutive (1971–75). She has 62 individual World Cup victories, third behind Mikaela Shiffrin and Lindsey Vonn on the female side. In winning percentage (races won of those entered) her percentage of 35.4%[2] is second only to Mikaela Shiffrin who has won 37.5%[3] of her races. She won five World Championship titles (3 downhill, 2 combined) and one Olympic gold medal. Of all female skiers, she is the one who won most races of a single discipline in a row (11 downhill races: all eight of the 1972–73 World Cup season, plus the first three of the following season).
The way to her first and only Olympic gold medal was quite long: At the 1972 games in Sapporo, Japan, she was considered the clear favourite for downhill and giant slalom, but in both events she finished second behind Marie-Theres Nadig of Switzerland. After winning a fifth consecutive title in overall and downhill, she interrupted her racing career to care for her ailing father,[4] afflicted with lung cancer. She missed the entire 1975–76 World Cup season, including the 1976 Winter Olympics in Innsbruck, in her home country of Austria.[1] After the death of her father in June 1976, she resumed competitive skiing and was immediately among the best, with second place in the overall World Cup standings for two seasons (1977, 1977–78), and won the overall title for the sixth time in 1979. At the 1980 Winter Olympics in Lake Placid, USA, she finished her extraordinary career by winning the downhill gold medal – with her 1972-rival Marie-Theres Nadig again on the podium, as bronze medalist.[5]
After racing edit
Several weeks after the 1980 Olympics, she retired from competitive skiing and ran her own café, the "Weltcup-Café Annemarie" in Kleinarl, which was decorated with her extensive cup and trophy collection.[1]
She married Herbert Moser in 1974 and their daughter Marion was born in 1982. In December 2003 her first grandchild was born.
Eight months after the death of her husband, she retired from the gastronomy business in 2008 and sold the establishment to local entrepreneurs, who keep running it as "Café-Restaurant Olympia."
World Cup results edit
Season standings edit
| Season | Age | Overall | Slalom | Giant slalom |
Super G | Downhill | Combined |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1969 | 15 | 16 | 15 | — | First women's WC SG held in January 1983 |
5 | Officially awarded in 1976 & 1980 only |
| 1970 | 16 | 6 | 14 | 3 | 8 | ||
| 1971 | 17 | 1 | 3 | 1 | 1 | ||
| 1972 | 18 | 1 | 9 | 1 | 1 | ||
| 1973 | 19 | 1 | 18 | 2 | 1 | ||
| 1974 | 20 | 1 | 5 | 7 | 1 | ||
| 1975 | 21 | 1 | 4 | 1 | 1 | ||
| 1976 | 22 | family leave | |||||
| 1977 | 23 | 2 | 11 | 3 | 2 | ||
| 1978 | 24 | 2 | 8 | 5 | 1 | ||
| 1979 | 25 | 1 | 2 | 12 | 1 | ||
| 1980 | 26 | 2 | 3 | 7 | 2 | 2 | |
Season titles edit
Moser-Pröll won sixteen titles (six overall, seven downhill and three giant slalom).
| Season | Discipline |
|---|---|
| 1971 | Overall |
| Downhill | |
| Giant slalom | |
| 1972 | Overall |
| Downhill | |
| Giant slalom | |
| 1973 | Overall |
| Downhill | |
| 1974 | Overall |
| Downhill | |
| 1975 | Overall |
| Downhill | |
| Giant slalom | |
| Combined | |
| 1978 | Downhill |
| 1979 | Overall |
| Downhill | |
| Combined |
Race victories edit
Moser-Pröll's race wins total 62, comprising 36 downhill, 16 giant slalom, 3 slalom and 7 combined.
| Season | Date | Location | Race |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1970 | 17 January 1970 |  Maribor, Yugoslavia |
Giant slalom |
| 1971 | 6 January 1971 | Maribor, Yugoslavia |
Slalom |
| 29 January 1971 |  St. Gervais, France |
Slalom | |
| 18 February 1971 |  Sugarloaf, ME, USA |
Downhill | |
| 19 February 1971 | Downhill | ||
| 10 March 1971 |  Abetone, Italy |
Giant slalom | |
| 11 March 1971 | Giant slalom | ||
| 14 March 1971 |  Åre, Sweden |
Giant slalom | |
| 1972 | 3 December 1971 |  St. Moritz, Switzerland |
Downhill |
| 17 December 1971 | Bardonecchia, Italy |
Downhill | |
| 12 January 1972 |  Bad Gastein, Austria |
Downhill | |
| 18 January 1972 | Grindelwald, Switzerland |
Downhill | |
| 22 January 1972 | St. Gervais, France |
Giant slalom | |
| 19 February 1972 |  Banff, AB, Canada |
Giant slalom | |
| 25 February 1972 | Crystal Mtn., WA, USA |
Downhill | |
| 1 March 1972 | Heavenly Valley, CA, USA |
Giant slalom | |
| 1973 | 7 December 1972 | Val d'Isère, France |
Giant slalom |
| 19 December 1972 | Saalbach, Austria |
Downhill | |
| 20 December 1972 | Giant slalom | ||
| 9 January 1973 |  Pfronten, West Germany |
Downhill | |
| 10 January 1973 | Downhill | ||
| 16 January 1973 | Grindelwald, Switzerland |
Downhill | |
| 20 January 1973 | St. Gervais, France |
Giant slalom | |
| 25 January 1973 | Chamonix, France |
Downhill | |
| 2 February 1973 | Schruns, Austria |
Downhill | |
| 10 February 1973 | St. Moritz, Switzerland |
Downhill | |
| 2 March 1973 | Mt. St. Anne, QC, Canada |
Giant slalom | |
| 1974 | 3 December 1973 | Val d'Isere, France |
Downhill |
| 19 December 1973 | Zell am See, Austria |
Downhill | |
| 5 January 1974 | Pfronten, West Germany |
Downhill | |
| 23 January 1974 | Bad Gastein, Austria |
Downhill | |
| 1975 | 7 December 1974 | Val d'Isere, France |
Downhill |
| 12 December 1974 | Cortina d'Ampezzo, Italy |
Downhill | |
| 15 December 1974 | Maribor, Yugoslavia |
Giant slalom | |
| 9 January 1975 | Grindelwald, Switzerland |
Downhill | |
| 10 January 1975 | Giant slalom | ||
| Combined | |||
| 11 January 1975 | Giant slalom | ||
| 16 January 1975 | Schruns, Austria |
Combined | |
| 31 January 1975 | St. Gervais, France |
Combined | |
| 22 February 1975 |  Naeba, Japan |
Giant slalom | |
| 1977 | 15 December 1976 | Cortina d'Ampezzo, Italy |
Downhill |
| 16 December 1976 | Combined | ||
| 1978 | 6 January 1978 | Pfronten, West Germany |
Downhill |
| 7 January 1978 | Downhill | ||
| 9 January 1978 | Garmisch, West Germany |
Downhill | |
| 13 January 1978 | Les Diablerets, Switzerland |
Downhill | |
| 11 March 1978 | Bad Gastein, Austria |
Downhill | |
| 12 March 1978 | Bad Kleinkirchheim, Austria |
Downhill | |
| 17 March 1978 | Arosa, Switzerland |
Giant slalom | |
| 1979 | 9 December 1978 | Piancavallo, Italy |
Downhill |
| 17 December 1978 | Val d'Isere, France |
Downhill | |
| 12 January 1979 | Les Diablerets, Switzerland |
Downhill | |
| 17 January 1979 | Meiringen, Switzerland |
Downhill | |
| 19 January 1979 | Combined | ||
| 26 January 1979 | Schruns, Austria |
Downhill | |
| 4 February 1979 | Pfronten, West Germany |
Combined | |
| 2 March 1979 | Lake Placid, NY, USA |
Downhill | |
| 1980 | 14 December 1979 | Piancavallo, Italy |
Combined |
| 15 December 1979 | Slalom | ||
| 6 January 1980 | Pfronten, West Germany |
Downhill |
References edit
- ^ a b c Sports Reference / Biography Annemarie Moser-Pröll, archived from the original on 17 April 2020, retrieved 19 December 2014
- ^ FIS-Ski Career Stats
- ^ FIS-Ski Career Stats
- ^ "Was macht eigentlich Annemarie Moser-Pröll". Stern. 2 December 2003. Retrieved 25 September 2021.
- ^ Sports Reference / Olympic Sports, archived from the original on 18 April 2020, retrieved 19 December 2014
External links edit
- Annemarie Moser-Pröll at FIS (alpine)
- Annemarie Moser-Pröll at Olympics.com
- Annemarie Moser-Pröll at Olympedia
- Annemarie Moser-Pröll at Ski-DB Alpine Ski Database
- Official website (in German)
- Annemarie Moser-Pröll in the German National Library catalogue
