Ulrike Maier ( German: Ulrike Maier ; , - , ) - Austrian skier , two-time world champion in supergiant (1989 and 1991). Specialized in supergiant and giant slalom.
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Sports career
During her career, she won 5 victories at the stages of the World Cup (3 - giant slalom, 2 - super giant). 4 times finished the year in the top ten of the overall standings of the World Cup (1988 - 8, 1989 - 7, 1993 - 5, 1994 - 7). She took 2nd place in the standings of the super giant in the 1992/93 season (lost to Katya Seitsinger ). It is interesting that Mayer won her first victory at the World Cup stages after she became a two-time world champion.
Only Mayer, Italian Isolde Costner (1996 and 1997) and Swede Anya Persona (2005 and 2007) managed to win the world championship in super giant twice.
The best athlete of the year in Austria in 1989 .
Ulrike Mayer at the Olympics
Meyer made her debut at the 1988 Olympics in Calgary . In the giant slalom, Ulrike took 6th place, losing to the bronze medalist 38 hundredths. On the slalom track, Mayer became 10th, she was separated from the medals for more than 2 seconds.
In 1992, in Albertville, in the super - giant, by then two-time world champion Mayer took only 5th place - to the podium she was not enough 16 hundredths. In the giant slalom, Mayer stopped a step away from medals - only 0.06 seconds later, the 4th Mayer lost to Dianne Roff and Anita Wacht , who shared the silver.
Mayer did not live until the Olympics in Lillehammer 1994, only a few days.
Doom
On January 29, 1994, on the downhill track (in which Mayer was never strong) in the German Garmisch-Partenkirchen at a speed of about 120 km / h, Mayer lost her balance (her right ski hit a pothole on the track) and hit hard on one of the racks. Mayer fell on the track, additionally receiving multiple fractures (the cervical vertebra was broken and the carotid artery was seriously damaged). Ulrike was rushed to the hospital in Murnau, where she died on the same day from her injuries at the age of 26.
Meyer won her last victory at the World Cup in Slovenian Maribor 8 days before her death. At the end of the 1993/94 season, Meyer planned to leave skiing.
Meyer has a daughter, Melanie (born 1989) and her fiancΓ©, father of a child, Hubert Schweighofer, a policeman from Salzburg .
World Cup Wins (5)
| No. | Season | date | A place | Discipline |
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| one | 1992/93 | Nov 28, 1992 | Park city | Giant slalom |
| 2 | Dec 13, 1992 | Vale | Super giant | |
| 3 | Jan 16, 1993 | Cortina d'Ampezzo | Super Giant (2) | |
| four | 1993/94 | Nov 27, 1993 | Santa Katerina | Giant Slalom (2) |
| five | Jan 21, 1994 | Maribor | Giant Slalom (3) |
Links
- Ulrike Meyer's death crashes on YouTube
- Ulrike Meyer - statistics on the FIS website
- Ulrike Meyer - Olympic stats on Sports-Reference.com