Annemarie Moser-Pröll

Annemarie Moser-Pröll
Personal information
Full name	Annemarie Moser-Pröll
Born	(1953-03-27) 27 March 1953 Kleinarl, Salzburg, Austria
World Cup
Seasons	11 - (1969-80, no '76)
Wins	62
Additional podiums	52
Total podiums	113
Medal record Competitor for  Austria Women’s alpine skiing Olympic Games Gold 1980 Lake Placid Downhill Silver 1972 Sapporo Downhill Silver 1972 Sapporo Giant slalom World Championships Gold 1972 Sapporo Combined Gold 1974 St. Moritz Downhill Gold 1978 Garmisch Downhill Gold 1978 Garmisch Combined Bronze 1970 Val Gardena Downhill Bronze 1978 Garmisch Giant Slalom
Updated on 2010-12-22.

Annemarie Moser-Pröll (born March 27, 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 six overall titles, including five consecutive. Moser-Pröll celebrated her biggest successes 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.

Career

During her career, she won the overall World Cup title a record six times, including five consecutive (1971–75). She has 62 individual World Cup victories, second to Lindsey Vonn on the female side, and behind only Ingemar Stenmark and Ole Einar Bjørndalen among all winter ski sport athletes. 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 1973 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, afflicted with lung cancer. She missed the entire 1976 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, 1978), 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.^[2]

After racing

Several weeks after the 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.

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

Season standings

Season titles

• 16 titles - (6 overall, 7 downhill, 3 giant slalom) plus unofficial titles in combined

Race victories

• 62 wins - (36 downhill, 16 giant slalom, 3 slalom, 7 combined)

Season	Date	Location	Race
1970	17 Jan 1970	Maribor, Slovenia	Giant Slalom
1971	6 Jan 1971	Maribor, Slovenia	Slalom
	29 Jan 1971	St. Gervais, France	Slalom
	18 Feb 1971	Sugarloaf, ME, USA	Downhill
	19 Feb 1971		Downhill
	10 Mar 1971	Abetone, Italy	Giant Slalom
	11 Mar 1971		Giant Slalom
	14 Mar 1971	Åre, Sweden	Giant Slalom
1972	3 Dec 1971	St. Moritz, Switzerland	Downhill
	17 Dec 1971	Bardonecchia, Italy	Downhill
	12 Jan 1972	Bad Gastein, Austria	Downhill
	18 Jan 1972	Grindelwald, Switzerland	Downhill
	22 Jan 1972	St. Gervais, France	Giant Slalom
	19 Feb 1972	Banff, AB, Canada	Giant Slalom
	25 Feb 1972	Crystal Mtn., WA, USA	Downhill
	1 Mar 1972	Heavenly Valley, CA, USA	Giant Slalom
1973	7 Dec 1972	Val d'Isère, France	Giant Slalom
	19 Dec 1972	Saalbach, Austria	Downhill
	20 Dec 1972		Giant Slalom
	9 Jan 1973	Pfronten, West Germany	Downhill
	10 Jan 1973		Downhill
	16 Jan 1973	Grindelwald, Switzerland	Downhill
	20 Jan 1973	St. Gervais, France	Giant Slalom
	25 Jan 1973	Chamonix, France	Downhill
	2 Feb 1973	Schruns, Austria	Downhill
	10 Feb 1973	St. Moritz, Switzerland	Downhill
	2 Mar 1973	Mt. St. Anne, QC, Canada	Giant Slalom
1974	3 Dec 1973	Val d'Isere, France	Downhill
	19 Dec 1973	Zell am See, Austria	Downhill
	5 Jan 1974	Pfronten, West Germany	Downhill
	23 Jan 1974	Bad Gastein, Austria	Downhill
1975	7 Dec 1974	Val d'Isere, France	Downhill
	12 Dec 1974	Cortina d'Ampezzo, Italy	Downhill
	15 Dec 1974	Maribor, Slovenia	Giant Slalom
	9 Jan 1975	Grindelwald, Switzerland	Downhill
	10 Jan 1975		Giant Slalom
			Combined
	11 Jan 1975		Giant Slalom
	16 Jan 1975	Schruns, Austria	Combined
	31 Jan 1975	St. Gervais, France	Combined
	22 Feb 1975	Naeba, Japan	Giant Slalom
1977	15 Dec 1976	Cortina d'Ampezzo, Italy	Downhill
	16 Dec 1976		Combined
1978	6 Jan 1978	Pfronten, West Germany	Downhill
	7 Jan 1978		Downhill
	9 Jan 1978	Garmisch, West Germany	Downhill
	13 Jan 1978	Les Diablerets, Switzerland	Downhill
	11 Mar 1978	Bad Gastein, Austria	Downhill
	12 Mar 1978	Bad Kleinkirchheim, Austria	Downhill
	17 Mar 1978	Arosa, Switzerland	Giant Slalom
1979	9 Dec 1978	Piancavallo, Italy	Downhill
	17 Dec 1978	Val d'Isere, France	Downhill
	12 Jan 1979	Les Diablerets, Switzerland	Downhill
	17 Jan 1979	Meiringen, Switzerland	Downhill
	19 Jan 1979		Combined
	26 Jan 1979	Schruns, Austria	Downhill
	4 Feb 1979	Pfronten, West Germany	Combined
	2 Mar 1979	Lake Placid, NY, USA	Downhill
1980	14 Dec 1979	Piancavallo, Italy	Combined
	15 Dec 1979		Slalom
	6 Jan 1980	Pfronten, West Germany	Downhill

References

External links

• Annemarie Moser-Pröll at the International Ski Federation
• FIS-ski.com - World Cup season standings - Annemarie Moser-Pröll - 1969-80
• Ski-db.com - results - Annemarie Moser-Pröll
• Sports Reference.com - Olympic results - Annemarie Moser-Pröll
• Annemarie-Mose-Proell.at - personal site - (German)
• Annemarie Moser-Pröll in the German National Library catalogue

Awards
Preceded by Trixi Schuba	Austrian Sportswoman of the year 1973 – 1975	Succeeded by Brigitte Habersatter
Preceded by Brigitte Habersatter	Austrian Sportswoman of the year 1977 – 1980	Succeeded by Claudia Kristofics-Binder