Annemarie Moser-Pröll (Kleinarl, Salzburg, March 27, 1953) is a former World Cup Alpine ski racer from Austria and the most successful female alpine ski racer during the 1970s, with an all-time women's record of six overall titles, including five consecutively (1971, 1972, 1973, 1974, 1975, and 1979). She won 62 World Cup events, ranking her third behind Mikaela Shiffrin and Lindsey Vonn on the Women's victory record.
She won five World Championship titles (3 in the Downhill, and two in the Combined) and one Olympic gold medal in Downhill at the XIII Olympic Winter Games held in 1980, in Lake Placid, New York, United States.
At the 1972 Olympic Winter Games held in Sapporo, Japan Annemarie Moser-Pröll finished in second place in the Downhill and the Giant Slalom and won her first gold medal at the World Championships in the Combined. From 1948 through 1980, the Winter Olympics also served as the World Championships. The world champion in the Combined was determined "on paper" by the results of the three races in Downhill, Giant Slalom, and Slalom. The Top-3 finishers in the Combined event were awarded world championship medals by the FIS, but not Olympic medals.
She won the gold medal in the Downhill at the FIS Alpine World Ski Championships held in St. Moritz, Switzerland in 1974.
In 1975, after winning a fifth consecutive title in the Overall and the Downhill, she interrupted her racing career to care for her ailing father, afflicted with lung cancer. She missed the entire 1975–1976 World Cup season, including the 1976 Winter Olympics in Innsbruck. After the death of her father in June 1976, she resumed her career as an Alpine skier and finished in second place in the Overall and Downhill World Cup standings.
In 1978, at the FIS Alpine World Ski Championships held in Garmisch-Partenkirchen, she added three new medals to her collection, a gold in the Combined and the Downhill and a bronze medal in the Giant Slalom.
At the Olympic Winter Games held in 1980 in Lake Placid, Annemarie Moser-Pröll finished her extraordinary Alpine Ski career by winning her third gold medal in the Downhill.
Olympic Winter Games Starts: 6
Olympic Winter Games Medals: 3
Olympic Winter Games Victories: 1
FIS Alpine World Ski Championships Starts: 11
FIS Alpine World Ski Championships Podiums: 9
FIS Alpine World Ski Championships Victories: 5
FIS World Cup Starts: 175
FIS World Cup Podiums: 114
FIS World Cup Victories: 62
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