Anita Wachter

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Anita Wachter Alpine skiing
Anita Wachter in December 1996
nation AustriaAustria Austria
birthday 12th February 1967 (age 53)
place of birth Schruns , Austria
size 164 cm
Weight 52 kg
Career
discipline Slalom , giant slalom ,
super-G , downhill , combination
society WSV Tschagguns
status resigned
End of career March 10, 2001
Medal table
Olympic games 1 × gold 2 × silver 0 × bronze
World championships 0 × gold 2 × silver 3 × bronze
Junior World Championship 2 × gold 1 × silver 0 × bronze
Olympic rings winter Olympics
gold Calgary 1988 combination
silver Albertville 1992 combination
silver Albertville 1992 Giant slalom
FIS Alpine World Ski Championships
bronze Saalbach 1991 Super G
silver Morioka 1993 Giant slalom
bronze Morioka 1993 combination
silver Sierra Nevada 1996 combination
bronze Vail / Beaver Creek 1999 Giant slalom
FIS Alpine Ski Junior World Championships
gold Jasná 1985 Giant slalom
gold Jasná 1985 slalom
silver Jasná 1985 combination
Placements in the Alpine Ski World Cup
 Individual World Cup debut 1984/85
 Individual world cup victories 19th
 Overall World Cup 1. ( 1992/93 )
 Downhill World Cup 17. ( 1995/96 )
 Super G World Cup 3rd ( 1988/89 )
 Giant Slalom World Cup 1. ( 1989/90 , 1993/94 )
 Slalom World Cup 3. ( 1987/88 )
 Combination World Cup 1. (1989/90, 1992/93,
1995/96)
 Podium placements 1. 2. 3.
 Super G 2 5 7th
 Giant slalom 14th 21st 10
 slalom 1 4th 4th
 combination 2 2 3
 

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

World championships

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
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
November 30, 1987 Courmayeur ItalyItaly Italy slalom
August 9, 1989 Las Leñas ArgentinaArgentina Argentina Super G
3rd December 1989 Vail United StatesUnited States United States Giant slalom
February 10, 1991 Zwiesel GermanyGermany Germany Giant slalom
5th December 1992 Steamboat Springs United StatesUnited States United States Giant slalom
January 17, 1993 Cortina d'Ampezzo ItalyItaly Italy combination
October 31, 1993 Soelden AustriaAustria Austria Giant slalom
November 26, 1993 Santa Caterina ItalyItaly Italy Giant slalom
January 16, 1994 Cortina d'Ampezzo ItalyItaly Italy Giant slalom
January 7, 1995 House in the Ennstal AustriaAustria Austria Super G
January 23, 1995 Cortina d'Ampezzo ItalyItaly Italy Giant slalom
February 18, 1995 Are SwedenSweden Sweden Giant slalom
December 17, 1995 St. Anton am Arlberg AustriaAustria Austria combination
January 21, 1996 Cortina d'Ampezzo ItalyItaly Italy Giant slalom
December 27, 1998 Semmering AustriaAustria Austria Giant slalom
January 2, 1999 Maribor SloveniaSlovenia Slovenia Giant slalom
February 24, 1999 Are SwedenSweden Sweden Giant slalom
March 13, 1999 Sierra Nevada SpainSpain Spain Giant slalom
December 28, 1999 Lienz AustriaAustria 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

Austrian championships

Anita Wacher is six times Austrian national champion :

Awards

Web links

Commons : Anita Wachter  - Collection of images, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ a b Wachter and Salzgeber got married , vorarlberg.orf.at from August 15, 2017
  2. ↑ 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).
  3. ↑ «Antia was only a substitute»; "Kleine Zeitung" Ktn issue No. 276 of December 1, 1987, pages 32/33
  4. ↑ Wachter and Salzgeber got married (August 15, 2017)
  5. ^ Beginning of winter in the Montafon , travel report by SWR TV with Karen Markwardt , German first broadcast on November 30, 2012
  6. ↑ Gold for Anita Watcher's daughter. In: The press. January 11, 2020, accessed January 12, 2020 .
personal data
SURNAME Watcher, Anita
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Austrian ski racer
DATE OF BIRTH February 12, 1967
PLACE OF BIRTH Schruns , Austria