Annemarie Moser-Pröll

Annemarie Moser-Pröll (born 27 March 1953) is a former World Cup alpine ski racer from Austria. Born in Kleinarl, Salzburg, she was the most successful female alpine ski racer during the 1970s, with six overall titles, including five consecutive. Moser-Pröll celebrated her biggest successes in downhill, giant slalom and combined races. In 1980, her last year as a competitor, she secured her third Olympic medal (and first gold) at Lake Placid and won five World Cup races. Her younger sister Cornelia Pröll is also a former Olympic alpine skier.

During her career, Moser-Pröll won the overall World Cup title a record six times, including five consecutive (1971–75). She has 62 individual World Cup victories, second to Lindsey Vonn on the female side, and behind only Ingemar Stenmark and Ole Einar Bjørndalen among all winter ski sport athletes. Though her record has been broken in absolute numbers, she is still the best ever woman in winning percentage (races won per races raced) because of the fewer races run each season during her era. She won five World Championship titles (3 downhill, 2 combined) and one Olympic gold medal. Of all female skiers, she is the one who won most races of a single discipline in a row (11 downhill races: all eight of the 1973 World Cup season, plus the first three of the following season).

The way to her first and only Olympic gold medal was quite long: At the 1972 games in Sapporo, Japan, she was considered the clear favourite for downhill and giant slalom, but in both events she finished second behind Marie-Theres Nadig of Switzerland. After winning a fifth consecutive title in overall and downhill, she interrupted her racing career to care for her ailing father, afflicted with lung cancer. She missed the entire 1976 World Cup season, including the 1976 Winter Olympics in Innsbruck, in her home country of Austria. After the death of her father in June 1976, she resumed competitive skiing and was immediately among the best, with second place in the overall World Cup standings for two seasons (1977, 1978), and won the overall title for the sixth time in 1979. At the 1980 Winter Olympics in Lake Placid, USA, she finished her extraordinary career by winning the downhill gold medal – with her 1972-rival Marie-Theres Nadig again on the podium, as bronze medalist.

Several weeks after the 1980 Olympics, she retired from competitive skiing and ran her own café, the "Weltcup-Café Annemarie" in Kleinarl, which was decorated with her extensive cup and trophy collection.

She married Herbert Moser in 1974 and their daughter Marion was born in 1982. In December 2003 her first grandchild was born.

Eight months after the death of her husband, she retired from the gastronomy business in 2008 and sold the establishment to local entrepreneurs, who keep running it as "Café-Restaurant Olympia."

Season standings

Annemarie Moser-Pröll, c. 1972

Season titles

• 16 titles – (6 overall, 7 downhill, 3 giant slalom) plus unofficial titles in combined

Race victories

• 62 wins – (36 downhill, 16 giant slalom, 3 slalom, 7 combined)

Season	Date	Location	Race
1970	17 January 1970	Maribor, Slovenia	Giant slalom
1971	6 January 1971	Maribor, Slovenia	Slalom
	29 January 1971	St. Gervais, France	Slalom
	18 February 1971	Sugarloaf, ME, USA	Downhill
	19 February 1971		Downhill
	10 March 1971	Abetone, Italy	Giant slalom
	11 March 1971		Giant slalom
	14 March 1971	Åre, Sweden	Giant slalom
1972	3 December 1971	St. Moritz, Switzerland	Downhill
	17 December 1971	Bardonecchia, Italy	Downhill
	12 January 1972	Bad Gastein, Austria	Downhill
	18 January 1972	Grindelwald, Switzerland	Downhill
	22 January 1972	St. Gervais, France	Giant slalom
	19 February 1972	Banff, AB, Canada	Giant slalom
	25 February 1972	Crystal Mtn., WA, USA	Downhill
	1 March 1972	Heavenly Valley, CA, USA	Giant slalom
1973	7 December 1972	Val d'Isère, France	Giant slalom
	19 December 1972	Saalbach, Austria	Downhill
	20 December 1972		Giant slalom
	9 January 1973	Pfronten, West Germany	Downhill
	10 January 1973		Downhill
	16 January 1973	Grindelwald, Switzerland	Downhill
	20 January 1973	St. Gervais, France	Giant slalom
	25 January 1973	Chamonix, France	Downhill
	2 February 1973	Schruns, Austria	Downhill
	10 February 1973	St. Moritz, Switzerland	Downhill
	2 March 1973	Mt. St. Anne, QC, Canada	Giant slalom
1974	3 December 1973	Val d'Isere, France	Downhill
	19 December 1973	Zell am See, Austria	Downhill
	5 January 1974	Pfronten, West Germany	Downhill
	23 January 1974	Bad Gastein, Austria	Downhill
1975	7 December 1974	Val d'Isere, France	Downhill
	12 December 1974	Cortina d'Ampezzo, Italy	Downhill
	15 December 1974	Maribor, Slovenia	Giant slalom
	9 January 1975	Grindelwald, Switzerland	Downhill
	10 January 1975		Giant slalom
			Combined
	11 January 1975		Giant slalom
	16 January 1975	Schruns, Austria	Combined
	31 January 1975	St. Gervais, France	Combined
	22 February 1975	Naeba, Japan	Giant slalom
1977	15 December 1976	Cortina d'Ampezzo, Italy	Downhill
	16 December 1976		Combined
1978	6 January 1978	Pfronten, West Germany	Downhill
	7 January 1978		Downhill
	9 January 1978	Garmisch, West Germany	Downhill
	13 January 1978	Les Diablerets, Switzerland	Downhill
	11 March 1978	Bad Gastein, Austria	Downhill
	12 March 1978	Bad Kleinkirchheim, Austria	Downhill
	17 March 1978	Arosa, Switzerland	Giant slalom
1979	9 December 1978	Piancavallo, Italy	Downhill
	17 December 1978	Val d'Isere, France	Downhill
	12 January 1979	Les Diablerets, Switzerland	Downhill
	17 January 1979	Meiringen, Switzerland	Downhill
	19 January 1979		Combined
	26 January 1979	Schruns, Austria	Downhill
	4 February 1979	Pfronten, West Germany	Combined
	2 March 1979	Lake Placid, NY, USA	Downhill
1980	14 December 1979	Piancavallo, Italy	Combined
	15 December 1979		Slalom
	6 January 1980	Pfronten, West Germany	Downhill