Petra Kronberger

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Petra Kronberger Alpine skiing
nation AustriaAustria Austria
birthday 21st February 1969 (age 51)
place of birth St. Johann im Pongau , Austria
size 174 cm
Weight 62 kg
Career
discipline Downhill , Super-G ,
giant slalom , slalom ,
combination
society SC Werfenweng
status resigned
End of career December 28, 1992
Medal table
Olympic games 2 × gold 0 × silver 0 × bronze
World championships 1 × gold 0 × silver 0 × bronze
Junior World Championship 0 × gold 1 × silver 0 × bronze
Olympic rings winter Olympics
gold Albertville 1992 combination
gold Albertville 1992 slalom
FIS Alpine World Ski Championships
gold Saalbach 1991 Departure
FIS Alpine Ski Junior World Championships
silver Hemsedal 1987 Giant slalom
Placements in the Alpine Ski World Cup
 Individual World Cup debut November 26, 1987
 Individual world cup victories 16
 Overall World Cup 1. ( 1989/90 , 1990/91 ,
1991/92 )
 Downhill World Cup 2. (1989/90, 1991/92)
 Super G World Cup 2. (1990/91)
 Giant Slalom World Cup 3. (1989/90)
 Slalom World Cup 1. (1990/91)
 Combination World Cup 3. ( 1987/88 , 1989/90)
 Podium placements 1. 2. 3.
 Departure 6th 2 2
 Super G 2 3 3
 Giant slalom 3 0 1
 slalom 3 1 4th
 combination 2 1 2
 

Petra Kronberger (born February 21, 1969 in St. Johann im Pongau , Salzburg ) is a former Austrian ski racer . She became two-time Olympic champion in 1992 and downhill world champion in 1991 . She won the overall World Cup three times and was the first alpine skier to win in all five disciplines .

biography

Athletic career

Kronberger started skiing at the age of three and soon won her first children's race. She attended the ski school in Bad Gastein and the ski trade school in Schladming . In 1982 she became Austrian student champion in her age group in giant slalom and combined, two years later in slalom. Also in 1982 she won the Trofeo Topolino . In 1984 Kronberger was accepted into the squad of the Austrian Ski Association (ÖSV) and began to compete in the European Cup . In the 1985/86 season she reached sixth place in the Super-G classification, in 1986/87 she was fifth in the downhill and seventh in the Super-G classification. She celebrated her first major success at the Junior World Championships in 1987 with second place in the giant slalom. In 1987 she also became three-time Austrian youth champion in downhill, slalom and combined.

In 1987 Kronberger was promoted to the ÖSV national team and competed in her first World Cup race , the Sestriere slalom , on November 26th . Two weeks later, on the descent from Leukerbad on December 11th, she was 15th and won World Cup points for the first time. Already on January 14th, 1988 she finished on the podium for the first time in the downhill from Zinal , in the combination of Bad Gastein she also reached third place a little later. The 18-year-old was nominated for the 1988 Winter Olympics in Calgary . There she finished sixth in the downhill as the best Austrian, in the combination she came in eleventh and in the giant slalom in 14th.

The 1988/89 season was quite mixed for Kronberger. Although she achieved World Cup points in all disciplines, third place in the Altenmarkt-Zauchensee combination was by far her best result of the season. Even at the 1989 World Cup in Vail , she remained behind her expectations with seventh place in the combined, eighth place in the Super-G and twelfth in the downhill. At the end of winter she became Austrian state champion in super-G and giant slalom.

During the 1989/90 season , Kronberger rose to become an absolute top runner. On December 16 and 17, she celebrated her first two World Cup victories on the slopes of Panorama . Thanks to four other victories (2 × giant slalom, 1 × slalom and 1 × combination), she won the overall World Cup ahead of her teammate Anita Wachter , making her the first winner since 1984 and the first Austrian since Annemarie Moser-Pröll not from the then dominant Swiss team 1979. With a total of eleven podium places, she was also among the top ten in all discipline World Cups, three times even among the top three. After these achievements, she was awarded the Skieur d'Or in 1990 by the International Association of Ski Journalists (AIJS) .

In the 1990/91 season , Kronberger's superiority was even clearer. In December and January she won a total of eight races (each 2 × downhill, super-G and slalom as well as 1 × giant slalom and combination). With the Super-G victory on December 9, 1990 in Altenmarkt / Zauchensee, she became the first runner to win in all disciplines and subsequently also the first to achieve this feat within one season. At the 1991 World Championships in Saalbach-Hinterglemm , Austria , Kronberger was the absolute top favorite and contender for several gold medals. In the descent, she fully lived up to these expectations and won with a margin of 47 hundredths over the French Nathalie Bouvier . Three days later, however, all hopes for further successes in the Super-G burst. After the best interim time, Kronberger had a hard crash just before the finish, slipping over the finish line in sixth place, but had to pause for four weeks after that. Nevertheless, she won the overall World Cup with what was at the time a very large lead of 117 points over Sabine Ginther, who placed second . In the slalom, she won the small crystal ball and also placed in the top seven in all other disciplines.

In the 1991/92 season , Kronberger also finished eight times in the top three, but was only at the top of the podium in two runs. Nevertheless, as in the previous two years, she won the overall World Cup and achieved good results in the other disciplines as well. The high point of the season was the 1992 Winter Olympics in Albertville , when Kronberger became a double Olympic champion. In the combination she won the gold medal with victory in the downhill and third place in the slalom, and in the special slalom she also took the lead with two good runs. In the Super-G, she only missed the podium by a hundredth of a second, in the downhill she came in fifth. Only in the giant slalom did she fail in the first round.

At the beginning of the 1992/93 season Kronberger only reached the podium in the Steamboat Springs slalom and came under the top ten twice more. On December 28, 1992, the 23-year-old announced her retirement in the middle of the season. She justified this with "lack of motivation". Although she complained of not having enough recovery during the summer, this step came as a surprise to many. Because of her great success, Kronberger was named Austria's Sportswoman of the Year in 1990, 1991 and 1992 .

Life after exercise

After her career as an active athlete, Kronberger made up her school-leaving certificate , studied German and art history in Salzburg and worked as a university assistant. She lived temporarily in Berlin and Hamburg, since the divorce from her husband she has been living in the city of Salzburg again. Kronberger worked in adult education and as an art guide, for example in the Salzburg Museum or at the Hohensalzburg Fortress, and was a member of the organizing committee of the 2013 World Cup in Schladming . Kronberger has also been a passionate singer since 2005: She is just as active in the Salzburg Cathedral Choir as in the KlangsCala. In 2012 she was also part of the state theater production La traviata .

On January 16, 2016, she was presented as a "women's representative" by the ÖSV, where she has been employed full-time since November 2015. She should be the point of contact for the skiers, who, as the association president Peter Schröcksnadel calls it, can express their concerns, which is also to prevent talent from being lost.

successes

Olympic games

World championships

World Cup ratings

Petra Kronberger has won the overall World Cup three times, plus the slalom discipline once.

season total Departure Super G Giant slalom slalom combination
space Points space Points space Points space Points space Points space Points
1987/88 17th 76 10. 37 13. 15th - - - - 3. 24
1988/89 24. 53 18th 16 14th 12 29 3 34. 3 5. 19th
1989/90 1. 341 2. 106 4th 69 3. 85 10. 56 3. 25th
1990/91 1. 312 3. 90 2. 70 7th 44 1. 83 4th 25th
1991/92 1. 1262 2. 432 8th. 216 12. 165 4th 369 6th 80
1992/93 45. 156 56. 4th 22nd 50 57. 6th 19th 96 - -

World Cup victories

A total of 16 individual World Cup victories in all five disciplines (6 × downhill, 3 × giant slalom, 3 × slalom, 2 × Super-G, 2 × combination). In addition, 7 times second and 12 times third.

date place country discipline
December 16, 1989 panorama Canada Departure
December 17, 1989 panorama Canada Departure
January 8, 1990 Hinterstoder Austria Giant slalom
January 14, 1990 House Austria combination
January 28, 1990 Santa Caterina Italy Giant slalom
March 13, 1990 Vemdalen Norway slalom
December 1, 1990 Val Zoldana Italy Giant slalom
2nd December 1990 Val Zoldana Italy slalom
December 9, 1990 Altenmarkt Austria Super G
December 21, 1990 Morzine France Departure
January 7, 1991 Bad Kleinkirchheim Austria combination
January 13, 1991 Kranjska Gora Slovenia slalom
January 18, 1991 Meribel France Departure
January 19, 1991 Meribel France Super G
December 21, 1991 Serre Chevalier France Departure
March 14, 1992 panorama Canada Departure

European Cup

Junior World Championships

Austrian championships

Awards

literature

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ What became of Petra Kronberger? Oberösterreichische Nachrichten , February 28, 2009, accessed on October 13, 2011.
  2. ↑ OK Team & Office. 2013 World Cup website, accessed March 13, 2012.
  3. ↑ Petra Kronberger: From the ski slope to the stage Salzburger Nachrichten , April 5, 2012, accessed on April 20, 2012.
  4. ↑ Petra Kronberger becomes ÖSV women's representative. news.at, January 16, 2016, accessed on January 16, 2016 .
  5. ^ "Petra Kronberger in 7th place!" In "Kleine Zeitung" from January 1, 1992; Page 23; POS .: second box, below
personal data
SURNAME Kronberger, Petra
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Austrian ski racer
DATE OF BIRTH February 21, 1969
PLACE OF BIRTH St. Johann im Pongau , Salzburg, Austria