WENZEL Hanny (LIE)
14.12.1956 Straubirn (BRD/GER)
SKI: Voelkle
BOOTS: Dinafit
BINDING: Salomon

1985 retired
LakePlacid OWG80 GS/1st watervill80 GS/1st
Lake Placid 80 OG GS/1st Watervill Valley 80 GS/1st
1980OverallChamp
1978 WCup Overall Champion		 World Cup Ranking
General
1972/40th, 1973/5th, 1974/3rd, 1975/2nd, 1976/9th, 1977/5th, 1978/1st,
1979/2nd, 1980/1st, 1981/3rd, 1982/19th, 1983/2nd, 1984/2nd,
Special
1973 GS/3rd, 1974 GS/1st, 1975 SL/2nd, 1978 SL/1st, GS/2nd,
1979 GS/2nd, 1980 DH/3rd, SL/2nd, GS/1st, 1984 DH/3rd,
World Championships
1974 St.Moritz SL/ 1st, K/ 2nd
1978 Garmisch GS/5th, SL/6th
1982 Schladming GS/4th.
Olympic Games
1976 Innsbruck SL/3rd, K/3rd
1980 Lake Placid SL/1st, GS/1st, DH/2nd, K/1st(WCS),
World Cup: 1st 1978, 1980 - 33 w. (2 DH, 10 SL, 12 GS, 9 K)
1. DH: Haus 83, Badgastei 84.
SL: Naeba 75, Sun Valley 75, Maribor 78, Berchtesgaden 78,
Pfronten 79, Maribor 79, Badgastein 80, Maribor 80,
Piancavallo 81, Zwiasel 84
GS: Zell am See 73, Madonna 77, Les Mosses 78, Stratton 78,
Piancavallo 78, Limone 79, Berchtesgaden 80, Arosa 80,
Megeve 80, Watervill Valley 80, Furano 83, haus 83,
K : Schruns 77, Berchtesgaden 78, Pfronten 79, Piancavallo 79,
Badgastein 80, Megeve 81, Haus 81, Les Diablerets 83,
Badgastein 84.
Born in West Germany, Hanni Wenzel competed for Liechtenstein after her father Hubert, who was also her first coach, moved into the Principality in the late 1950's.
She had still a West German passport in 1974 when she celebrated her first major success at the FIS World Championships in St Moritz by winning the slalom.
A few months later, the entire family received the citizenship from Liechtenstein - a smart move by the tiny country since Hanny and her younger brother Andreas accumulated many victories in the next ten years.
A slalom specialist at the beginning, Hannelore Wenzel grew into a solid all-around skier by training with the Swiss team.
Hanny won her first Overall World Cup title in 1978.
A double Olympic champion in the technical events in 1980, she won her second Crystal globe that winter along to her brother Andreas.
Several injuries prevented her from staying at the top level. But she returned to the world's elite in 1983 and finished in 2nd place in the final World Cup standings.
A year later, Wenzel scored victories in several specialties but despite her great form, she lost the Overall Cup in the last race against Switzerland's Erika Hess.
It was the second time that bad luck had struck: in 1979 Austrian legend Annemarie Moser-Proell beat her in Japan by two points at the World Cup finals.
After a brilliant 12-year-long career, Hanny stepped down from active ski racing.
She had won 33 events in all alpine specialties and four gold medals in Olympics and Worlds.
She got into business an married Austria's Harti Weirather, the 1982 downhill World Champion.
They started a family and a very successful marketing agency, WWP (Weirather, Wenzel & Partners) which runs the Austrian World Cup races in behalf of the Austrian Ski Federation.
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