Martina Altenberger Explained

Martina Altenberger
Sport:	Alpine skiing
Birth Place:	Niedernsill, Austria

Martina Altenberger is an Austrian Paralympic alpine skier. She represented Austria in Para-alpine skiing, at the 1988 Paralympic Winter Games in Innsbbruck, winner of three gold medals.^[1]

Career

She competed at the 1986 World Disabled Ski Championships.^[2]

She competed in the Innsbruck 1988 Winter Paralympics in the LW6 / 8 category, Altenberger won three gold medals: in the giant slalom (with a time of 1: 45.59, besting the American Kathy Pitcher, who won silver in 2: 00.57 and the Polish Eszbieta Dadok, bronze in 2: 06.05,^[3] slalom (time 1: 15.63; in 2nd place Gunilla Ahren in 1: 19.09 and in third place Eszbieta Dadok in 1: 37.46),^[4] and downhill (race ended in 1: 13.87, ahead of Nancy Gustafson in 1: 14.51 and Gunilla Ahrenin 1: 17.64.^[5]

She trained with Skiclub Niedernsill.^[6]

References

1. Web site: Martina Altenberger - Alpine skiing Paralympic Athlete Profile . 2022-10-26 . International Paralympic Committee . en.
2. Book: https://books.google.com/books?id=m67FHANqF_UC&dq=Martina+Altenberger%2C+ski&pg=PA24 . Skiing . September 1986 . en . Disabled skiers sweep worlds.
3. Web site: Innsbruck 1988 - alpine-skiing – womens-giant-slalom-lw68 . 2022-10-26 . International Paralympic Committee . en.
4. Web site: Innsbruck 1988 - alpine-skiing – womens-slalom-lw68 . 2022-10-26 . International Paralympic Committee . en.
5. Web site: Innsbruck 1988 - alpine-skiing – womens-downhill-lw68 . 2022-10-26 . International Paralympic Committee . en.
6. Web site: Unsere Chronik . 2022-10-26 . Skiclub Niedernsill . de-DE.