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Michaela Dorfmeister (born 25 March 1973) is an Austrian former alpine ski racer who competed in the Olympic Games and World Cup.Her specialities were both the downhill and the super-G disciplines, although she skied in and had success in giant slalom.
Aug 31, 2018 · Three months prior to the XX Olympic Winter Games to be held in Turin, Michaela Dorfmeister had announced her intention to retire from the professional ski circuit. The pressure to produce the goods in the most prestigious event in the Apline calendar infused the setting where the cheerful Austrian in her last competition created a perfect ...
Michaela was the first woman to win the double in the speed events in Alpine skiing, downhill and super-G, since the introduction of the super-G on the Games programme in 1988. Dorfmeister first participated in the Olympic Games in Nagano in 1998, taking a silver medal in the super-G event. She lost out on the gold by one hundredth of a second.
Michaela needed a long time to confirm this success and win another important race. In 1997 and 1998 “Dorfi” was quite confused in her mind and she could not put her acts together except at the Olympics at Nagano where she came in 2nd in Super-G, only a 1/100 behind America’s Picabo Street.
Oct 31, 2009 · Michaela Dorfmeister is first Austrian woman to win Olympic gold since Annemarie Moser-Proell 1980
Feb 20, 2006 · Dorfmeister's super-G luck is finally in. Eight years before, Austria's Michaela Dorfmeister had suffered the most agonising defeat in the history of Alpine skiing. Skiing in the super-G, she had missed out on a gold medal by 0.01secs – just one hundredth of a second, much less than the blink of an eye, the difference between first and second ...
Michaela Dorfmeister of Austria becomes the downhill Olympic champion at the Turin Games, claiming gold in 1:49.56 and becoming the first Austrian woman to win... this event since 1980. A few days later after receiving her first gold, Dorfmeister wins the Super-G and becomes the first female alpine skier to win the double in speed events.
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