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Verena "Vreni" Schneider (born 26 November 1964) is a retired ski racer from Switzerland. She is the most successful alpine ski racer of her country, the fourth most successful female ski racer ever (after Lindsey Vonn, Annemarie Moser-Pröll and Mikaela Shiffrin) and was voted "Swiss Sportswoman of the Century".
Apr 23, 2024 · Vreni Schneider (born November 26, 1964, Elm, Switzerland) is a Swiss Alpine skier who was the dominant female skier of her generation and one of the greatest skiers in the history of the slalom and giant slalom events.
Aug 23, 2018 · Born in Elm, Switzerland on Nov. 26th, 1964, Verena 'Vreni' Schneider has been the dominant female skier of her generation and one of the greatest skiers in the history of the technical races.
Vreni Schneider, the daughter of a village shoemaker, first competed in the Olympics in 1988. At the Calgary Games she won the giant slalom and then, two days later, the slalom. Long standing record. During the following season, 1988-1989, Schneider won fourteen World Cup races to set a single season record that still stands.
Jan 23, 2013 · Schneider was the first female Alpine skier to win three gold medals and the first to earn five total medals. Find more about Vreni Schneider: http://www.olympic.org/vreni-schneider ...
Switzerland’s Vreni Schneider was the first woman to win five alpine skiing Olympic medals. Schneider won both the slalom and giant slalom at the 1988 Olympic Winter Games. In 1994 at Lillehammer, she won three more medals, repeating as champion in the slalom, while earning a silver in the Alpine combined, and a bronze in the giant slalom. At ...
Schneider, Vreni (1966—) Swiss Olympic alpine skier. Born in 1966 in Elm, Switzerland; daughter of shoemaker Kaspar Schneider. First female alpine skier to win three gold medals and the first to win five medals in the Olympic Winter Games.
Mikaela Shiffrin has reached a new milestone in her career. The double Olympic champion has won the city event in Stockholm, Sweden, and equalled Vreni Schneider 's record for most World Cup wins in one season (14), set by the Swiss skier in the 1988/89 season.
Aug 31, 2018 · Vreni Schneider competed on elite level for ten years, until she was 30. During this decade, she won the overall FIS World Cup 3 times and was on the top of the podium 55 times. She also won three Olympic gold medals and three gold medals in the World Championships.
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