Elisabeth Görgl


Elisabeth Görgl is a retired World Cup alpine ski racer from Austria.
Born in Bruck an der Mur, Styria, Görgl made her World Cup debut in March 2000 and has reached World Cup podiums in all five alpine disciplines, with multiple victories in giant slalom, super G, and downhill. In January 2008, she won her first World Cup race in the giant slalom at Maribor, Slovenia. As of March 22, 2015, Görgl has seven World Cup victories and 42 podiums.
At the 2009 World Championships at Val d'Isère, Görgl won a bronze medal in super combined. In 2011 at Garmisch-Partenkirchen, she won two gold medals, the first in the super G and a second in the downhill five days later. Her sweep of the two women's speed events marked the third consecutive occurrence at the World Championships – preceded by Lindsey Vonn in 2009 at Val discretion and Anja Pärson in 2007 at Åre.
At the 2010 Winter Olympics, Görgl won the bronze medal in the downhill – the same medal in the same event as her mother half a century earlier at the 1960 and the 1964 Winter Olympics. A week later she also won bronze in the giant slalom. Görgl also participated in 4 disciplines in the 2014 Winter Olympics.
On 12 June 2017 she announced her retirement from active skiing. Her last race was a Super G in Aspen in March the same year.

Personal

Görgl is the daughter of Traudl Hecher, an alpine racer for Austria in the early 1960s. She won Olympic bronze medals in the downhill in 1960 and 1964, and remains the youngest Olympic medalist in alpine skiing. Görgl's older brother Stephan is a former World Cup alpine racer; he competed in the giant slalom at the 2006 Winter Olympics.

World Cup results

Season standings

SeasonOverallSlalomGiant
Slalom 		Super GDownhillCombined
200341 18 27 ———
200410 5 4 38 ——
200512 22 10 12 34 11
200610 36 16 11 8 15
200711 35 11 23 14 8
20084 42 2 2 11 8
20098 —4 14 10 5
20106 29 20 2 26 4
20114 33 4 9 4 4
20126 —7 9 3 10
201319 —15 14 24 13
20148 —31 4 7 11
20158 —25 7 4 14
201628 ——14 13 —
201754 ——16 39 —

Race victories

SeasonDateLocationDiscipline
200812 Jan 2008Maribor, SloveniaGiant slalom
200815 Mar 2008Bormio, ItalyGiant Slalom
20106 Dec 2009Lake Louise, CanadaSuper G
20127 Jan 2012Bad Kleinkirchheim, AustriaDownhill
201411 Jan 2014Altenmarkt, AustriaDownhill
201423 Jan 2014Cortina d'Ampezzo, ItalySuper G
201521 Dec 2014Val-d'Isère, FranceSuper G

World championships

Year Age Slalom Giant
slalom 		Super-GDownhillCombined
200321DNF1————
200523DSQ17——8
200725———18—
2009273110643
201129—10115
201331—2311106
201533——DNF16—

Winter Olympics