Vreni Schneider

Verena "Vreni" Schneider (born November 26 1964 in Elm) is a former ski racer from Switzerland. She is the most successful alpine ski racer of her country, the second most successful ski racer in the world (after Annemarie Moser-Pröll) and was elected "Swiss Sportswoman of the Century".

She won the overall skiing world cup three times and eleven world cups in slalom and giant slalom. She also won 55 world cup races, five medals at olympic games, and six medals at skiing world championships.

During the 1988/89 season she won 14 world cup races. Nobody had ever achieved this before (the Swede Ingemar Stenmark once won 13 races). This record has not been beaten so far.

In april 1995, after eleven successful seasons, she announced her retirement. Today she runs a ski and snowboard school in her home village of Elm as well as a sport equipment shop in Glarus.

Successes

1988 Winter Olympics:

1st place giant slalom

1st place slalom

1992 Winter Olympics:

1st place slalom

2nd place combination

3rd place giant slalom

1987 alpine skiing world championships:

1st place giant slalom

1989 alpine skiing world championships:

1st place giant slalom

2nd place slalom

2nd place combination

1991 alpine skiing world championships:

1st place slalom

3rd place combination

Winner of overall world cup: 1989, 1994, 1995

Winner of giant slalom world cup: 1986, 1987, 1989, 1991, 1995

Winner of slalom world cup: 1989, 1990, 1992, 1993, 1994, 1995

55 wins in world cup races (20 giant slalom, 34 slalom, 1 combination)

External links

Website of Vreni Schneider's ski school (in German)

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