Petra Kronberger
Petra Kronberger | |||||||||||||||||||||||||
nation | Austria | ||||||||||||||||||||||||
birthday | 21st February 1969 (age 51) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||
place of birth | St. Johann im Pongau , Austria | ||||||||||||||||||||||||
size | 174 cm | ||||||||||||||||||||||||
Weight | 62 kg | ||||||||||||||||||||||||
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Downhill , Super-G , giant slalom , slalom , combination |
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society | SC Werfenweng | ||||||||||||||||||||||||
status | resigned | ||||||||||||||||||||||||
End of career | December 28, 1992 | ||||||||||||||||||||||||
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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
- Calgary 1988 : 6th downhill, 11th combination, 14th giant slalom
- Albertville 1992 : 1st slalom, 1st combination, 4th Super-G, 5th descent
World championships
- Vail 1989 : 7th combination, 8th Super-G, 12th downhill
- Saalbach-Hinterglemm 1991 : 1st descent, 6th Super-G
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 | ||||||
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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 |
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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
- 1985/86 season : 6th Super G rating
- 1986/87 season : 5th downhill classification, 7th Super-G classification
Junior World Championships
- Sälen / Hemsedal 1987 : 2nd giant slalom, 5th slalom
Austrian championships
- Austrian state champion in giant slalom and Super-G in 1989
Awards
- Austrian Sportswoman of the Year : 1990, 1991 and 1992
- Skieur d'Or : 1990
- Great Decoration of Honor for Services to the Republic of Austria : 1992
- The Italian sports newspaper “Gazzetta dello Sport” voted her 7th in a list of “Sportswomen of the Year 1991” (victory to Katrin Krabbe ahead of Krisztina Egerszegi and Monica Seles ; men's winner : Carl Lewis ).
literature
- Austrian Ski Association (Ed.): Austrian Ski Stars from A – Z. Ablinger & Garber, Hall in Tirol 2008, ISBN 978-3-9502285-7-1 , pp. 221-223.
- Joachim Glaser: Salzburg athlete. Verlag Anton Pustet, Salzburg-Munich 2001, ISBN 3-7025-0426-5 , pp. 17-19.
Web links
- Petra Kronberger in the database of the International Ski Association (English)
- Petra Kronberger in the database of Ski-DB (English)
- Petra Kronberger in the database of Sports-Reference (English; archived from the original )
- Petra Kronberger Entry on the website of the Austrian Olympic Museum
Individual evidence
- ↑ What became of Petra Kronberger? Oberösterreichische Nachrichten , February 28, 2009, accessed on October 13, 2011.
- ↑ OK Team & Office. 2013 World Cup website, accessed March 13, 2012.
- ↑ Petra Kronberger: From the ski slope to the stage Salzburger Nachrichten , April 5, 2012, accessed on April 20, 2012.
- ↑ Petra Kronberger becomes ÖSV women's representative. news.at, January 16, 2016, accessed on January 16, 2016 .
- ^ "Petra Kronberger in 7th place!" In "Kleine Zeitung" from January 1, 1992; Page 23; POS .: second box, below
personal data | |
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SURNAME | Kronberger, Petra |
BRIEF DESCRIPTION | Austrian ski racer |
DATE OF BIRTH | February 21, 1969 |
PLACE OF BIRTH | St. Johann im Pongau , Salzburg, Austria |