SCHNEIDER Vreni (SUI)
26.11.1964 Elm
SKI: Rossignol
BOOTS: Raichle
BINDING: Tyrolia

1995 retired
Tignes (FRA) GS / 1st
Val Zordana (ITA) 89 GS / 1st
Shiga Kogen (JPN) 89 SL / 1st
Park City (USA) 90 SL / 1st
Calgary OWG SL,GS Gold
WCup 95 Overall Champ

World Cup Ranking
General
1985/9th, 1986/3rd, 1987/2nd, 1988/5th, 1989/1st, 1990/6th,
1991/3rd, 1992/4th, 1993/6th, 1994/1st, 1995/1st.
Special
1985 GS/3rd, 1986 GS/1st, 1987 GS/1st, 1988 SL/2nd,GS/3rd,
1989 SL/1st,GS/1st,1990 SL/1st, 1991 GS/1st,
1992 SL/1st,GS/2nd, 1993 SL/1st, 1994 SL/１ｓｔ,GS/2nd,
1995 SL/1st, GS/1st
World Championships
1987 Crans Montana GS/1st, SG/4th, K/4th.
1989 Vail GS/1st, SL/2nd, K/2nd
1991 Saalbach/Hinterglemm SL/1st, K/3rd, GS/7th.
Olympic Games
1988 Calgary SL/1st, GS/1st.
1992 Albertvill SL/7th,
1994 Lillehammer SL/1st, GS/3rd, K/2nd.
World Cup - 55 w. (20 GS, 34 SL, 1 K)

1. GS: St.Caterina 85,91, Watervill Valley 85,86,87, Maribor 86, Oberstaufen 86,92,
Saalbach 87, Megeve 87, Sarajevo 87, Tignes 88,89, Les menuiles 89,
Valzordana 89, Mellau 89,89, Furano 89, Shigakogen 89, Kranjska Gora 91,　
Vail 91
SL: Courmayeur 87,89, Mrgeve 87, Badgastein 88, Altenmarkt 89,94,
Maribor 89,90,92,93,94, Mellau 89, Grindelwald 89, Furano 89,
Shigakogen 89, Park City 90,95, Piancavallo 90, Hinterstoder 90,
Are 90,93, Lake Louise 91, Narvik 92, Cortina 93, Vemdalen 93, St.Anton 94,
Sierra Nevada 94, Mammoth 94, Vail 91,94, Sestriere 95, Bormio 95.
K : Altenmarkt 89.
With her 54 victories in GS and slalom from 1984 to 1995, Vreni Schneider is by far the best technical skier in the history of the World Cup. A three-time winner of the Overall title, the modest and reserved athlete from the eastern part of Switzerland also won six gold medals at Olympics and FIS World Championships from 1987 to 1994.

Daughter of a shoe-maker who worked in the tiny village of Elm, Vreni lost her mother when she was a teenager. Taking care of her household, she worked hard to achieve her dream of ski racing. In 1984 Vreni finally made the national team and won her first race during the 1984/85 season.

But she didn't make the powerful Swiss team for the FIS World Championships in Bormio and had to wait 1987 to win her first gold medal in GS. A double Olympic champion in 1988 at Calgary, she crushed her rivals during the 1988/89 winter, winning 13 technical races out of 14 and one combined. With 14 successes in one season, the popular Swiss leader set an new record: the previous one was held by a man -- Sweden's Ingemar Stenmark with 13 wins in a single season in 1978/79.

Schneider retired at 30 after another World Cup win at Bormio where she beat Germany's Katja Seizinger in winning the last slalom of the season. Vreni had not only lived her dream, but created new ones. She won eleven World Cups in GS and slalom. How good was Vreni Schneider? Too good for women's skis. Very often, she used the more aggressive men's equipment.
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