Anita Wachter
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nation | Austria | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
birthday | 12th February 1967 (age 53) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
place of birth | Schruns , Austria | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
size | 164 cm | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Weight | 52 kg | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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discipline |
Slalom , giant slalom , super-G , downhill , combination |
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society | WSV Tschagguns | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
status | resigned | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
End of career | March 10, 2001 | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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Anita Wachter (married Anita Wachter-Salzgeber ; born February 12, 1967 in Schruns , Vorarlberg ) is a former Austrian ski racer . She is one of the most successful athletes of the ÖSV of the late 1980s and 1990s. Wachter, a member of the Tschagguns winter sports club , competed in the Ski World Cup for 16 years and won 19 races, with particular success in the giant slalom discipline . Her greatest successes were the 1988 Olympic victory in combination and winning the overall World Cup in the 1992/93 season. There are also two junior world championships, two silver medals at the Olympic Games and two silver and three bronze medals at world championships.
Career
After four years of ski school in Schruns , Anita Wachter attended the ski trade school in Stams . In 1982 she won the Trofeo Topolino . In 1983 she was accepted into the ÖSV squad and the following year she competed in her first World Cup races after a winning streak in the European Cup. In March 1985 she won the gold medal in giant slalom and slalom at the Junior World Championships in Jasná .
Their first World Cup in 1987 in Crans-Montana did not go as planned. She was fifth in combination. But before the start of the Super-G on February 3, she fell through no fault of her own when a safety net that had just been dismantled slipped in front of her legs, bruising both legs. So it was only enough to rank 17th in the race. Up until the giant slalom that took place just two days later, the injury was too severe that she could not compete.
First World Cup victory in 1987 and Olympic gold in Calgary in 1988
On November 30, 1987, Wachter celebrated her first World Cup victory in the Courmayeur slalom , although Ingrid Salvenmoser was only nominated for an unsuitable result . On February 21, 1988 she was in a very close decision (difference to the runner-up Brigitte Oertli 0.23 points) in Calgary Olympic champion in the combination .
In the 1989/90 season Wachter won the Giant Slalom World Cup and took second place in the overall World Cup, with the victory in the Giant Slalom in Vail on December 3, 1989 , the first ever success for the Austrian women in this discipline since the victory by Annemarie Moser-Pröll in Arosa on March 17, 1978. At the World Ski Championships in Saalbach-Hinterglemm in 1991 she won the bronze medal in the Super-G . In February 1992 she won silver in giant slalom and combined at the Winter Olympics in Albertville .
Overall World Cup victory in 1992/93
1992/93 was Wachter's most successful season. She secured the overall World Cup victory as well as a silver medal in giant slalom and a bronze medal in combination at the World Ski Championships in Morioka . As a result, she was named Austrian Sportswoman of the Year . In the 1993/94 season she won the Giant Slalom World Cup for the second time with three victories, but at the Olympic Winter Games in Lillehammer she was only fourth in the giant slalom, although she, with a bit of cold, was still third after the first run was located. In 1996 she again secured a silver medal in combination at the World Ski Championships in Sierra Nevada . At the World Ski Championships in Sestriere it was only enough to finish fourth in the giant slalom (again third in the first run).
On January 24, 1998, Wachter had a serious fall at the Super-G in Cortina and tore the cruciate ligament and all other ligaments in his right knee. The end of her career seemed to have come, but in 1999 she made an impressive comeback with four giant slalom victories and reached second place in the discipline ranking. There was also a bronze medal in the giant slalom at the World Ski Championships in Vail . In addition to her sporting activities, Anita Wachter made a guest appearance in 1999 in the Tatort Absolute Discretion .
In the 1999/2000 season , Wachter won the giant slalom in Lienz and was third in the giant slalom World Cup.
In the following season she was unable to continue these successes and ended her career after the World Ski Championships in St. Anton am Arlberg in 2001, where she was eliminated in the giant slalom and missed her last chance to win a world championship.
Private
Anita Wachter lives with her husband, the former ski racer Rainer Salzgeber , in Bartholomäberg and they have two daughters. Her daughter Amanda Salzgeber (* 2002) won the combined slalom for Austria at the 2020 Winter Youth Olympic Games .
successes
Olympic games
- Calgary 1988 : 1st combination, 5th super-G, 7th giant slalom
- Albertville 1992 : 2nd giant slalom, 2nd combination, 9th Super-G
- Lillehammer 1994 : 4th giant slalom, 9th Super-G
World championships
- Bormio 1985 : 17th giant slalom
- Crans-Montana 1987 : 5th combination, 17th super-G
- Vail 1989 : 5th combination, 9th Super-G, 13th giant slalom
- Saalbach-Hinterglemm 1991 : 3rd Super-G, 11th giant slalom, 12th slalom
- Morioka 1993 : 2nd giant slalom, 3rd combination, 6th Super-G
- Sierra Nevada 1996 : 2nd combination, 4th giant slalom, 16th Super-G
- Sestriere 1997 : 4th giant slalom, 10th combination, 22nd slalom
- Vail / Beaver Creek 1999 : 3rd giant slalom, 9th slalom
World Cup ratings
Anita Wachter has won the overall World Cup once and twice the discipline classification in giant slalom.
season | total | Departure | Super G | Giant slalom | slalom | combination | ||||||
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space | Points | space | Points | space | Points | space | Points | space | Points | space | Points | |
1984/85 | 89. | 1 | - | - | - | - | 44. | 1 | - | - | - | - |
1985/86 | 17th | 91 | - | - | 7th | 30th | 8th. | 43 | 40. | 2 | 15th | 18th |
1986/87 | 14th | 107 | 23. | 12 | 5. | 47 | 21st | 12 | 14th | 37 | - | - |
1987/88 | 3. | 211 | 28. | 8th | 11. | 22nd | 4th | 74 | 3. | 75 | 2. | 32 |
1988/89 | 5. | 157 | - | - | 3. | 56 | 5. | 59 | 7th | 42 | - | - |
1989/90 | 2. | 300 | - | - | 8th. | 43 | 1. | 133 | 5. | 89 | 1. | 35 |
1990/91 | 6th | 142 | - | - | 11. | 23 | 2. | 79 | 14th | 28 | 9. | 12 |
1991/92 | 12. | 564 | 52. | 6th | 27. | 64 | 9. | 225 | 15th | 163 | 3. | 106 |
1992/93 | 1. | 1286 | 19th | 155 | 4th | 313 | 2. | 396 | 4th | 272 | 1. | 150 |
1993/94 | 4th | 1057 | - | - | 9. | 157 | 1. | 635 | 9. | 215 | 7th | 50 |
1994/95 | 8th. | 593 | 31. | 54 | 14th | 128 | 7th | 295 | 16. | 116 | - | - |
1995/96 | 3. | 1044 | 17th | 102 | 8th. | 221 | 3. | 371 | 9. | 250 | 1. | 100 |
1996/97 | 7th | 741 | 32. | 31 | 24. | 81 | 3. | 378 | 11. | 191 | 3. | 60 |
1997/98 | 27. | 274 | - | - | 39. | 19th | 15th | 132 | 27. | 58 | 12. | 45 |
1998/99 | 8th. | 756 | - | - | - | - | 2. | 636 | 18th | 120 | - | - |
1999/00 | 16. | 546 | - | - | - | - | 3. | 470 | 26th | 76 | - | - |
2000/01 | 51. | 118 | - | - | - | - | 29 | 59 | 26th | 59 | - | - |
World Cup victories
In total: 18 World Cup victories (14 × giant slalom, 2 × super-G, 1 × combination and 1 × slalom). In addition, 32 times second and 24 times third.
date | place | country | discipline |
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November 30, 1987 | Courmayeur | Italy | slalom |
August 9, 1989 | Las Leñas | Argentina | Super G |
3rd December 1989 | Vail | United States | Giant slalom |
February 10, 1991 | Zwiesel | Germany | Giant slalom |
5th December 1992 | Steamboat Springs | United States | Giant slalom |
January 17, 1993 | Cortina d'Ampezzo | Italy | combination |
October 31, 1993 | Soelden | Austria | Giant slalom |
November 26, 1993 | Santa Caterina | Italy | Giant slalom |
January 16, 1994 | Cortina d'Ampezzo | Italy | Giant slalom |
January 7, 1995 | House in the Ennstal | Austria | Super G |
January 23, 1995 | Cortina d'Ampezzo | Italy | Giant slalom |
February 18, 1995 | Are | Sweden | Giant slalom |
December 17, 1995 | St. Anton am Arlberg | Austria | combination |
January 21, 1996 | Cortina d'Ampezzo | Italy | Giant slalom |
December 27, 1998 | Semmering | Austria | Giant slalom |
January 2, 1999 | Maribor | Slovenia | Giant slalom |
February 24, 1999 | Are | Sweden | Giant slalom |
March 13, 1999 | Sierra Nevada | Spain | Giant slalom |
December 28, 1999 | Lienz | Austria | Giant slalom |
European Cup
- 1983/84 season : 1st overall ranking, 1st giant slalom ranking, 2nd slalom ranking
- 5 wins, 5 times second, 4 times third
Junior World Championships
- Sugarloaf 1984 : 5th giant slalom
- Jasná 1985 : 1st slalom, 1st giant slalom, 2nd combination, 9th descent
Austrian championships
Anita Wacher is six times Austrian national champion :
Awards
- Gold Medal of Honor for Services to the Republic of Austria 1992
- Austrian sportswoman of the year 1993
Web links
- Anita Wachter in the database of the International Ski Association (English)
- Anita Wachter in the database of Ski-DB (English)
- Anita Wachter in the database of Sports-Reference (English; archived from the original )
- Anita Wachter on the website of the Austrian Olympic Museum
Individual evidence
- ↑ a b Wachter and Salzgeber got married , vorarlberg.orf.at from August 15, 2017
- ↑ Anita Wachter crashed unhappily before the start . In: Arbeiter-Zeitung . Vienna February 4, 1987, p. 22 ( berufer-zeitung.at - the open online archive - digitized version).
- ↑ «Antia was only a substitute»; "Kleine Zeitung" Ktn issue No. 276 of December 1, 1987, pages 32/33
- ↑ Wachter and Salzgeber got married (August 15, 2017)
- ^ Beginning of winter in the Montafon , travel report by SWR TV with Karen Markwardt , German first broadcast on November 30, 2012
- ↑ Gold for Anita Watcher's daughter. In: The press. January 11, 2020, accessed January 12, 2020 .
personal data | |
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SURNAME | Watcher, Anita |
BRIEF DESCRIPTION | Austrian ski racer |
DATE OF BIRTH | February 12, 1967 |
PLACE OF BIRTH | Schruns , Austria |