Annemarie Moser-Pröll Explained

Disciplines:Technical events
Club:Schiklub Kleinarl
Birth Date:27 March 1953
Birth Place:Kleinarl, Salzburg,
Austria
Height:1.70 m
Wcdebut:1969
Retired:1980
Olympicteams:2
Olympicmedals:3
Olympicgolds:1
Worldsteams:9
Worldsmedals:4
Worldsgolds:5
Wcseasons:12
Wcwins:62
Wcpodiums:113
Wcoveralls:6
Wctitles:12
Show-Medals:yes

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.

Career

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% is second only to Mikaela Shiffrin who has won 37.5% 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,[1] 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. 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.

After racing

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.

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 Age Overall Slalom Giant
slalom
Super G Downhill Combined
15 16 15 First
women's
WC SG
held in
January
1983
5 Officially
awarded
in 1976
& 1980
only
16 6 14 3 8
17 1 3 1 1
18 1 9 1 1
19 1 18 2 1
20 1 5 7 1
21 1 4 1 1
22 family leave
23 2 11 3 2
24 2 8 5 1
25 1 2 12 1
26 2 3 7 2 2

Season titles

Moser-Pröll won sixteen titles (six overall, seven downhill and three giant slalom).

SeasonDiscipline
Overall
Downhill
Giant slalom
Overall
Downhill
Giant slalom
Overall
align=center Downhill
Overall
align=center Downhill
Overall
Downhill
Giant slalom
Combined
Downhill
Overall
Downhill
Combined

Race victories

Moser-Pröll's race wins total 62, comprising 36 downhill, 16 giant slalom, 3 slalom and 7 combined.

SeasonDateLocationRace
1970 align=right 17 January 1970 align=center Giant slalom
1971 align=right 6 January 1971 Maribor, Yugoslavia align=center Slalom
align=right 29 January 1971 St. Gervais, France align=center Slalom
align=right 18 February 1971 align=center Downhill
align=right 19 February 1971 align=center Downhill
align=right 10 March 1971 align=center Giant slalom
align=right 11 March 1971 align=center Giant slalom
align=right 14 March 1971 align=center Giant slalom
1972 align=right 3 December 1971 align=center Downhill
align=right 17 December 1971 Bardonecchia, Italy align=center Downhill
align=right 12 January 1972 align=center Downhill
align=right 18 January 1972 Grindelwald, Switzerland align=center Downhill
align=right 22 January 1972 St. Gervais, France align=center Giant slalom
align=right 19 February 1972 Giant slalom
align=right 25 February 1972 Crystal Mtn., WA, USA align=center Downhill
align=right 1 March 1972 Heavenly Valley, CA, USA align=center Giant slalom
1973 align=right 7 December 1972 Val d'Isère, France align=centeRGiant slalom
align=right 19 December 1972 Saalbach, Austria align=center Downhill
align=right 20 December 1972 align=center Giant slalom
align=right 9 January 1973 align=center Downhill
align=right 10 January 1973 align=center Downhill
align=right 16 January 1973 Grindelwald, Switzerland align=center Downhill
align=right 20 January 1973 St. Gervais, France align=center Giant slalom
align=right 25 January 1973 Chamonix, France align=center Downhill
align=right 2 February 1973 Schruns, Austria align=center Downhill
align=right 10 February 1973 St. Moritz, Switzerland align=center Downhill
align=right 2 March 1973 Mt. St. Anne, QC, Canada align=center Giant slalom
1974 align=right 3 December 1973 Val d'Isere, France align=center Downhill
align=right 19 December 1973 Zell am See, Austria align=center Downhill
align=right 5 January 1974 Pfronten, West Germany align=center Downhill
align=right 23 January 1974 Bad Gastein, Austria align=center Downhill
1975 align=right 7 December 1974 Val d'Isere, France align=center Downhill
align=right 12 December 1974 Cortina d'Ampezzo, Italy align=center Downhill
align=right 15 December 1974 Maribor, Yugoslavia align=center Giant slalom
align=right 9 January 1975 Grindelwald, Switzerland align=center Downhill
10 January 1975 align=center Giant slalom
align=center Combined
align=right 11 January 1975 align=center Giant slalom
align=right 16 January 1975 Schruns, Austria align=center Combined
align=right 31 January 1975 St. Gervais, France align=center Combined
align=right 22 February 1975 align=center Giant slalom
1977 align=right 15 December 1976 Cortina d'Ampezzo, Italy align=center Downhill
align=right 16 December 1976 align=center Combined
1978 align=right 6 January 1978 Pfronten, West Germany align=center Downhill
align=right 7 January 1978 align=center Downhill
align=right 9 January 1978 Garmisch, West Germany align=center Downhill
align=right 13 January 1978 Les Diablerets, Switzerland align=center Downhill
align=right 11 March 1978 Bad Gastein, Austria align=center Downhill
align=right 12 March 1978 Bad Kleinkirchheim, Austria align=center Downhill
align=right 17 March 1978 Arosa, Switzerland align=center Giant slalom
1979 align=right 9 December 1978 Piancavallo, Italy align=center Downhill
align=right 17 December 1978 Val d'Isere, France align=center Downhill
align=right 12 January 1979 Les Diablerets, Switzerland align=center Downhill
align=right 17 January 1979 Meiringen, Switzerland align=center Downhill
align=right 19 January 1979 align=center Combined
align=right 26 January 1979 Schruns, Austria align=center Downhill
align=right 4 February 1979 Pfronten, West Germany align=center Combined
align=right 2 March 1979 Lake Placid, NY, USA align=center Downhill
1980 align=right 14 December 1979 Piancavallo, Italy align=center Combined
align=right 15 December 1979 align=center Slalom
align=right 6 January 1980 Pfronten, West Germany align=center Downhill

Notes and References

  1. Web site: Was macht eigentlich Annemarie Moser-Pröll. Stern. English. 2 December 2003. 25 September 2021.