Renate Götschl

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Olympic medalist
Renate Götschl in March 2008.
Medal record
Women’s Alpine skiing
Silver	2002 Salt Lake City	Combined
Bronze	2002 Salt Lake City	Downhill
World Championships
Gold	1997 Sestrières	Combined
Gold	1999 Vail	Downhill
Gold	2007 Åre	Team Event
Silver	1999 Vail	Combined
Silver	1999 Vail	Super-G
Silver	2001 St. Anton	Downhill
Silver	2005 Bormio	Team Event
Bronze	2005 Bormio	Downhill
Bronze	2007 Åre	Super-G

Renate Götschl (born 6 August 1975, in Judenburg, Austria) is an Austrian alpine skier. She is a two-time individual World Champion in the combined (1997) and downhill (1999), and has won a total of 9 World Championships medals. She also won two Olympic medals in 2002, the bronze medal in downhill and a silver in the combined.

[edit] Career

Götschl made her debut in the Alpine skiing World Cup in 1993. Her first victory in the World Cup arrived on March 14, 1993, in the slalom in Lillehammer. This was followed by more than 100 podium results (top 3 finishes), including at least one win in four of the five disciplines; only a giant slalom win has eluded her so far. She won the overall World Cup title in 2000, and she has also won five World Cup discipline titles in downhill (1997, 1999, 2004, 2005 and 2007), three in Super-G (2000, 2004 and 2007), and two in combined (2000 and 2002).

Götschl has won nine medals at the FIS Alpine World Ski Championships, including gold medals in combined (1997) in downhill (1999 FIS Alpine World Ski Championships) and in team event (2007). At Salt Lake City Winter Olympics, in 2002, she won a silver medal in combined and a bronze medal in the downhill.

On January 28, 2007, when she was second in a Super-G in San Sicario, she celebrated her 100th podium in World Cup. Her total of 46 World Cup race wins (as of March 14, 2007) is third all-time among women, behind only Annemarie Moser-Pröll and Vreni Schneider. One of her favourite slopes is in Cortina d'Ampezzo, where she was the first alpine skier ever to win 10 races.

[edit] World Cup victories

[edit] Season standings

[edit] Race wins

46 total wins: 24 downhill, 17 Super-G, 1 slalom, 4 combined

[edit] Downhill Date Location 7 December 1996 Vail 18 January 1998 Altenmarkt 27 November 1998 Lake Louise 28 November 1998 Lake Louise 27 February 1999 Åre 5 March 1999 St. Moritz 19 February 2000 Åre 25 February 2000 Innsbruck 17 December 2000 St. Moritz 13 January 2001 Haus 26 January 2002 Cortina d'Ampezzo 2 February 2002 Åre 18 January 2003 Cortina d'Ampezzo 12 March 2003 Lillehammer Hafjell 20 December 2003 St. Moritz 10 January 2004 Veysonnaz 10 March 2004 Sestriere 15 January 2005 Cortina d'Ampezzo 10 March 2005 Lenzerheide 28 January 2006 Cortina d'Ampezzo 13 January 2007 Altenmarkt 20 January 2007 Cortina d'Ampezzo 27 January 2007 San Sicario 14 March 2007 Lenzerheide

[edit] Super G Date Location 10 January 1995 Flachau 22 January 1999 Cortina d'Ampezzo 16 January 2000 Altenmarkt 27 February 2000 Innsbruck 16 March 2000 Bormio 2 December 2000 Lake Louise 17 January 2003 Cortina d'Ampezzo 28 February 2003 Innsbruck 7 December 2003 Lake Louise 16 January 2004 Cortina d'Ampezzo 21 February 2004 Åre 12 January 2005 Cortina d'Ampezzo 14 January 2005 Cortina d'Ampezzo 3 December 2006 Lake Louise 16 December 2006 Reiteralm 26 January 2007 San Sicario 4 March 2007 Tarvisio

[edit] Slalom Date Location 14 March 1993 Lillehammer Hafjell [edit] Combined Date Location 19 December 1993 St. Anton 12 February 2000 Santa Caterina 13 January 2002 Saalbach-Hinterglemm 3 February 2002 Åre

[edit] External links

• Official website
• FIS-Ski: Renate Götschl - statistics
• Extensive stats at Ski-db.com

Awards
Preceded by Theresia Kiesl	Austrian Sportswoman of the year 1997	Succeeded by Alexandra Meissnitzer
Preceded by Kate Allen	Austrian Sportswoman of the year 2005	Succeeded by Michaela Dorfmeister