Petra Kronberger

Olympic medal record
Women's Alpine skiing
World Championships

Petra Kronberger (born February 21, 1969, in Pfarrwerfen) is an Austrian former alpine skier, who participated in all disciplines. She was the first female alpine skier who managed to win in all five World Cup events.

Career

Kronberger entered the World Cup circuit in the 1987/88 season. She gained several podiums and was expected to be a strong competitor at the 1988 Winter Olympic Games in Calgary. She did not win any medals there, but she did give a good performance for an athlete still in her teen years: she finished sixth in the downhill and eleventh in the combined.

Kronberger only won her first World Cup events, two downhill races, in December of 1989, but by the end of that season she had captured the World Cup overall title. This made her an instant hero in Austria: ever since that country's skiing star of the 1970s, Annemarie Pröll (later Moser-Pröll) had retired, the Swiss team had almost completely dominated the alpine world, which had long rankled the Austrian fans.

She successfully defended her World Cup overall champion title twice. Over the course of thirty-eight days in December, 1990, and January, 1991, Kronberger became the first skier in the modern era to win one race in each of the five alpine events in one season. Four of those wins in all but the combined came in the month of December alone, another notable feat.

At the 1991 World Championships she won a gold medal in her first event, the downhill, and was suspected to be able to win four more medals. However, she fell in her second event, the Super-G, and injured her right knee, forcing her to miss the rest of the races. (Despite her fall, she still finished sixth in that event.)

Her performances at the 1992 Winter Olympic Games in Albertville, France, were even better. She won two gold medals, one in the slalom and one in the combined, and finished a respectable fourth in the Super-G and fifth in the downhill.^[1]

She retired as alpine skier in December 1992.^[2]

World Cup victories

Overall

Season	Discipline
1990	Overall
1991	Overall
1991	Slalom
1992	Overall

Individual races

Date	Location	Race
December 16, 1989	Panorama	Downhill
December 17, 1989	Panorama Ski Resort	Downhill
January 8, 1990	Hinterstoder	Giant Slalom
January 14, 1990	Haus	Combined
January 28, 1990	Santa Caterina di Valfurva	Giant Slalom
March 13, 1990	Vemdalen	Slalom
December 1, 1990	Valzoldana	Giant Slalom
2 December 1990	Valzoldana	Slalom
9 December 1990	Altenmarkt	Super-G
21 December 1990	Morzine	Downhill
7 January 1991	Bad Kleinkirchheim	Combined
13 January 1991	Kranjska Gora	Slalom
18 January 1991	Méribel	Downhill
19 January 1991	Méribel	Super-G
21 December 1991	Serre-Chevalier	Downhill
14 March 1992	Panorama	Downhill