Alexandra Meissnitzer

Alexandra Meissnitzer (born 18 June 1973) is a retired alpine skier from Austria. Her specialities are the Downhill, Super-G and Giant Slalom disciplines.

She comes from Abtenau, Salzburg. Her father, Hans Meissnitzer, a mechanic by trade, taught her to ski at an early age.

In 2006 Meissnitzer won the bronze in the 2006 Winter Olympics at Turin in the Super-G race. In 1999 she won the overall Alpine Skiing World Cup, to which she added the Super-G and Giant Slalom World Cups for the same season. She also won two world titles (Super-G and Giant Slalom) at the Alpine World Ski Championships 1999.

Meissnitzer finished third in the Super G at the 2008 World Cup finals in Bormio, Italy on 13 March 2008 and set a new record as the oldest woman to finish on the podium in an alpine skiing World Cup race .