Hanni Wenzel biography
Hanni Wenzel, (born Dec. 14, 1956, Staubirnen, W.Ger.), Liechtenstein Alpine skier who was the primary athlete from her nation to win an Olympic medal, incomes a bronze on the 1976 Winter Games in Innsbruck, Austria. She went on to win two gold medals and a silver on the 1980 Winter Olympics in Lake Placid, New York, U.S., matching Rosi Mittermaier’s report for essentially the most profitable Olympic Alpine snowboarding perfomance by a lady.
Born in West Germany, Wenzel moved to the small nation of Liechtenstein when she was one yr previous. She made her first mark in Alpine snowboarding in 1974 when she gained the world slalom championship. Slalom was her strongest occasion all through her profession, and it was in that occasion that she earned her bronze medal on the 1976 Games. Her biggest yr as a skier got here in 1980. At the Olympics that yr she dominated the slalom competitors, posting the quickest occasions for each runs and incomes the gold medal. She added a gold medal within the large slalom and an sudden silver within the downhill (normally her weakest occasion). She adopted her Olympic success by capturing the general World Cup title that yr. Wenzel’s 1980 success was made extra particular for her and her nation by her brother Andreas’s silver medal within the males’s large slalom and his personal seize of the boys’s general World Cup title.
Because of a business contract, Wenzel was thought-about ineligible for the 1984 Olympics. After the 1984 season she introduced her retirement. By the top of Wenzel’s 13-year profession, she had gained 32 World Cup occasions and a pair of general World Cup titles (1978 and 1980).