| WACHTER Anita (AUT) |
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12.02.1967 Schruns
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SKI: Volkl
BOOTS: Lange
BINDING: Atomic
2001 retired
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| Are 95 GS/ 1st |
Sierra Nevada 99 GS/ 1st |
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| Park City 00 SL |
St.Anton WM 01 GS |
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World Cup Ranking
General
1985/89th, 1986/17th, 1987/14th,
1988/3rd,
1989/5th, 1990/2nd, 1991/6th,
1992/12th, 1993/1st, 1994/4th, 1995/8th, 1996/3rd, 1997/7th,
1998/-.
1999/8th, 2000/16th, 2001/49th.
Special
1989 SG/3rd, 1990 GS/1st, 1991 GS/2nd, 1993 GS/2nd, 1994 GS/1st,
1996 GS/3rd, 1997 GS/3rd, 1999 GS/2nd, 2000
GS/3rd, 2001 GS/29th, SL/26th.
World Championships
1987 Crans Montana K/5th.
1989 Vail K/5th
1991 Saalbach SG/3rd
1993 Morioka GS/2nd, SG/6th,
K/3
1996 Sierra Nevada GS/4th, K/2
1997 Sestriere GS/4th.
1999 Vail GS/3rd, SL/9th.
2001 St.Anton GS/DNF.
Olympic Games
1988 Calgary GS/7th, SG/5th, K/1st
1992 Albertvill GS/2nd, K/2nd
1994 Lillehammer GS/4th
World Cup - 19 w. (SL/1, GS/13, SG/3, K/2)
| 1. |
SL: |
Courmayeur 87 |
| GS: |
Vail 90, Zwiesel 91, Steanboat Springs 93,
Soelden 94,
Sta Caterina 94-Ⅰ, Cortina
94,95,96, Are
95, Semmering 99,
Maribor 99, Are 99, Sierra
Nevada 99, Lienz
2000, |
| SG: |
Las Lenas 90, Haus 95, |
| K : |
Cortina 93, St.Anton 96. |
| 2. |
SL: |
Aspen 88, Hinterstoder 96, Haus 93, Sta.Caterina
94, |
| GS: |
Watervill 86, Saalbach 88, Les Menuires 89,
Hinterstoder 90,
Maribor 90, 93, 97, Sta.Caterina
90, 94 II
, Veysonnaz 90,
Narvik 92, Cortina 93,
Tignes 94, Morzine
94, Alta Badia 94,
Park City 97, Zwiesel 97
I , II , Are 99
I , Serre Chevalier 2000,
Are 2000, |
| SG: |
Vail 86, 87, Tignes 89, steamboat 89, Veysonnaz
93, |
| K : |
Leukerbad 87, Haus 90 |
| 3. |
SL: |
Park City 90, Stranda 90, Lake Louise 91,
semmering 97 I , |
| GS: |
Kranjska Gora 88, Valzordana 89, Park City
90, Vail 91, Are 93,
Veysonnaz 96, Val d'Isere
99, Cortina 99,
Tignes 2000, Maribor 2000, |
| SG: |
Vail 87, 93, 93, Rossland 88, Schladming
89, Altenmarkt 91,
Morzine 93, |
| K : |
Sta.Caterina 86, Steamboat 90, Laax 97, |
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The third Austrian to capture the Overall
World Cup in 1993, Anita Wachter accumulated
great results in her career after scoring
her first points during the 1984/85 season.
Olympic champion in combined in 1988 at Calgary,
the tiny skier from Vorarlberg, in the western
part of Austria, also clinched five silver
or bronze medals at eight FIS World Championships
since 1985. A strong slalom skier early on,
Wachter soon excelled in the faster events
to become an almost perfect GS racer. She
won the GS World Cup in 1990 and 1994. She
won eleven races in that event from 1990
to 1999. She reached top-10 positions in
all disciplines in 1993 and defeated Germany's
Katja Seizinger during the World Cup finals
in Are, Sweden. A veteran on the women's
tour, Anita is very popular among her rivals
who appreciate her kindness and her fairness.
Her love for ski racing convinced her to
fight back after a severe knee-injury in
January 1998 at Cortina d'Ampezzo, Italy.
It was a good decision - eleven months later
Anita celebrated an emotional comeback at
Semmering, near Vienna, where she won the
GS over the favorite, Alexandra Meissnitzer.
She won again in Slovenia's Maribor and at
the World Cup finals in Sierra Nevada, Spain.
In 1999, Wachter was leading after the first
run of the GS at the Vail World Championships
but a small mistake in the final part of
the course cost her the golden dream. Wachter
came in 3rd behind Meissnitzer and Norway's
Andrine Flemmen. Anita is engaged to Rainer
Salzgeber, one of the best GS and Super-G
skiers on the men's team.
The tiny Austrian veteran has been racing
since 1985 on the World Cup tour and had
her share of "returns of champions".
But, Anita, known as the "snow flea",
achieved another impressive comeback during
the 1998/99 season after tearing ligaments
in her right knee in a Super-G crash the
previous season at Cortina d'Ampezzo, Italy.
Wachter considered retiring after the surgery.
Lucky for her she didn't. Eleven months after
her accident, the racer from Schruns, in
Vorarlberg, celebrated her 15th World Cup
win - her first since 1996. In the following
weeks, she fought hard against her teammate
Alexandra Meissnitzer for the lead in GS.
Anita won three additional events and made
it to the podium three more times. She was
also leading after the first run at the Vail
World Championships before settling for the
bronze medal. It was Wachter's eighth medal
in a major event since the Bormio Worlds
in 1985. But in all those races, she has
won gold only once, at the 1988 Olympics
at Calgary. Anita's greatest accomplishment
in Alpine ski racing was her success in the
1993 Overall World Cup standings. She it
won at the World Cup finals at Are, Sweden
after a tough battle against Germany's Katja
Seizinger, a rising superstar. Winner of
a total of 18 World Cup events in four specialties,
she finished in the top-10, ten times in
Overall World Cup standings.
Wachter is truly tiny for a racer, only 50
kg, so she needs steep, icy runs to perform
her best. Anita also starred in football
(soccer) when she started racing, which helped
her improve her footwork and fitness.
Motivation is sometimes the biggest problem
for Anita who will be 33 on February 12th,
2000. Her constant training and coming back
from injuries and health problems have worn
her down. Her boyfriend, Rainer Salzgeber,
is also a veteran on the Austrian team. In
1993 they both won silver in GS on the same
day at the FIS World Championships in Morioka,
Japan. |
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