Sigrid Wolf (born February 14, 1964 in Breitenwang ) is a former Austrian ski racer . At the end of the 1980s she was one of the most successful athletes in the downhill and super-G disciplines . She was once Olympic champion and vice world champion, and she also won five world cup races.
Wolf contested her first World Cup race on December 18, 1981, where she, still a member of the youth squad, immediately achieved third place on the descent in Saalbach-Hinterglemm (and this with start number 60). In the following years there were no further podiums, but she proved to be a constant athlete and regularly placed in the top ten. At the 1985 World Championships in Santa Caterina , she reached fourth place in the downhill, losing just one hundredth of a second to Ariane Ehrat and Katharina Gutensohn , who shared second place at the same time.
In the 1986/87 World Cup season, the women's team of the ÖSV remained without a win for almost four months, until Sigrid Wolf won the two downhill runs in Vail on March 13 and 14 . At the start of the 1987/88 World Cup season , she was also successful in the Super-G of Sestriere and almost five years after the introduction of this discipline, she was the first lady of the Austrian Ski Federation to win the 19th Super-G in World Cup history. Due to the "pin affair" in the Super-G in Lech on January 9, 1988, another victory was subsequently revoked and the Swiss Zoë Haas was declared the winner. Several Austrian women had their quite large and drag-generating start numbers attached to their ski suits with a pin. Because this fact was the same for all runners, the pins could not be tolerated.
A few weeks later, Wolf won the gold medal in the Super-G at the 1988 Olympic Games in Calgary ahead of Michela Figini and Karen Percy . This made her the first female Olympic champion in this new discipline. As in the previous year, she was named Austria's Sportswoman of the Year . At the 1989 World Cup in Vail, she won the silver medal in the Super-G behind Ulrike Maier in an extremely close decision. At the end of February she won the Super-G at Steamboat Springs and finished second in the discipline world cup behind Carole Merle .
Wolf achieved one last World Cup victory in Super-G in January 1990 in Santa Caterina . After a ligament rupture in January 1991 and repeated injuries in November 1991, she ended her career, using the season finale 1991/92 to officially say goodbye.
After her sports career, she opened a fitness studio and became a sports teacher at the technical college for arts and crafts and design in Elbigenalp.