Petra Kronberger

Petra Kronberger

Personal information
Born	(1969-02-21) 21 February 1969 (age 55) St. Johann im Pongau, Austria
Occupation	Alpine skier
Height	1.74 m (5 ft 9 in)
Skiing career
Disciplines	Slalom, giant slalom, super-G, Downhill, combined
Club	SC Werfenweng
World Cup debut	20 March 1987 (age 18)
Retired	28 December 1992 (age 23)
Olympics
Teams	2 – (1988, 1992)
Medals	2 (2 gold)
World Championships
Teams	2 – (1989, 1991)
Medals	1 (1 gold)
World Cup
Seasons	6 – (1988–1993)
Wins	16
Podiums	35
Overall titles	3 – (1990, 1991, 1992)
Discipline titles	1 – (SL: 1991)
Medal record Women's alpine skiing Representing  Austria World Cup race podiums Event 1st 2nd 3rd Slalom 3 1 4 Giant slalom 3 0 1 Downhill 6 2 2 Super-G 2 3 3 Combined 2 1 2 Total 16 7 12 International competitions Event 1st 2nd 3rd Olympic Games 2 0 0 World Championships 1 0 0 Junior World Championships 0 1 0 Total 3 1 0 Olympic Games 1992 Albertville Slalom 1992 Albertville Alpine combined World Championships 1991 Saalbach Downhill Junior World Ski Championships 1987 Hemsedal Giant slalom

Petra Kronberger (born 21 February 1969) is an Austrian former alpine skier, who participated in all disciplines. She was the first female alpine skier to win in all five World Cup events.

Kronberger entered the World Cup circuit in the 1987/88 season. She gained several podiums and was expected to be a strong competitor at the 1988 Winter Olympic Games in Calgary. She did not win any medals there, but she did give a good performance for an athlete still in her teen years: she finished sixth in the downhill and eleventh in the combined.

Kronberger only won her first World Cup events, two downhill races, in December 1989, but by the end of that season, she had captured the World Cup overall title. This made her an instant hero in Austria: ever since that country's skiing star of the 1970s, Annemarie Pröll (later Moser-Pröll) had retired, the Swiss team had almost completely dominated the alpine world, which had long rankled the Austrian fans.

She successfully defended her World Cup overall champion title twice. Over the course of thirty-eight days in December 1990 and January 1991, Kronberger became the first skier in the modern era to win one race in each of the five alpine events in one season. Four of those wins in all but the combined came in the month of December alone, another notable feat.

At the 1991 World Championships she won a gold medal in her first event, the downhill, and was suspected to be able to win four more medals. However, she fell in her second event, the Super-G, and injured her right knee, forcing her to miss the rest of the races. (Despite her fall, she still finished sixth in that event.)

Her performances at the 1992 Winter Olympic Games in Albertville, France, were even better. She won two gold medals, one in the slalom and one in the combined, and finished a respectable fourth (with only 0.01 sec. behind the podium) the Super-G, and fifth in the downhill.^[1]

It was a great surprise when she retired as alpine skier on 25 December 1992, saying that she had lost her motivation.^{[citation needed]}

Kronberger did catch up on her matriculation, did start studies in German philology and history of art at the university in the borough of Salzburg, did act as an assistant at a university. In later time she lived in Berlin and Hamburg. After dissolution she returned to the borough of Salzburg. She did work in adult vocational training and was an art guide in the "Salzburg Museum" (museum in Salzburg) and "Festung Hohensalzburg" ("Hohensalzburg Castle"), and she was a member of the Organizing Committee of the FIS Alpine Skiing World Championships 2013 at Schladming. She also is a singer in the "Salzburger Domchor" (cathedral choir at Salzburg) and the "KlangsCala" (a famous chamber choir in Salzburg). Since November 2015 she is employed at the Austrian Skiing Federation, and since 16 January 2016 she is a "Frauenbeauftragte" (maybe translated as commissioner for women's affairs) there (cit. the German Wikipedia).

Date	Location	Race
16 December 1989	Panorama	Downhill
17 December 1989	Panorama	Downhill
8 January 1990	Hinterstoder	Giant slalom
14 January 1990	Haus im Ennstal	Combined
28 January 1990	Santa Caterina	Giant slalom
13 March 1990	Vemdalen	Slalom
1 December 1990	Val Zoldana	Giant slalom
2 December 1990	Val Zoldana	Slalom
9 December 1990	Altenmarkt-Zauchensee	Super-G
21 December 1990	Morzine	Downhill
7 January 1991	Bad Kleinkirchheim	Combined
13 January 1991	Kranjska Gora	Slalom
18 January 1991	Méribel	Downhill
19 January 1991	Méribel	Super-G
21 December 1991	Serre Chevalier	Downhill
14 March 1992	Panorama	Downhill

• Petra Kronberger at FIS (alpine)
• Petra Kronberger at Olympics.com
• Petra Kronberger at Olympedia
• Petra Kronberger at Ski-DB Alpine Ski Database