Renate Götschl (born 6 August 1975) is an Austrian former alpine ski racer. She is a two-time individual World Champion in the combined (1997) and downhill (1999), and has won a total of 9 World Championships medals. She also won two Olympic medals in 2002, the bronze medal in downhill and the silver medal in the combined.^[1]

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Renate Götschl

Renate Götschl during the Austrian Alpine Skiing Championships in Haus im Ennstal in March 2008
Personal information
Born	(1975-08-06) 6 August 1975 (age 48) Judenburg, Austria
Occupation	Alpine skier
Height	164 cm (5 ft 5 in)
Skiing career
Disciplines	Downhill, super-G, giant slalom, slalom, combined
Club	SC Weißkirchen
World Cup debut	January 1993 (age 17)
Retired	August 2009 (age 34)
Olympics
Teams	4 – (1994, 1998, 2002, 2006)
Medals	2 (0 gold)
World Championships
Teams	8 – (1996–09)
Medals	9 (3 gold)
World Cup
Seasons	17 – 1993–2009)
Wins	46
Podiums	110
Overall titles	1 – (2000)
Discipline titles	10 – (5 DH, 3 SG, 2 KB)
Medal record Women's alpine skiing Representing Austria World Cup Event 1st 2nd 3rd Downhill 24 21 14 Super G 17 15 9 Giant slalom 0 1 3 Slalom 1 0 0 Combined 4 0 1 Total 46 37 27 International alpine ski competitions Event 1st 2nd 3rd Olympic Games 0 1 1 World Championships 3 4 2 Total 3 5 3 Olympic Games 2002 Salt Lake City Combined 2002 Salt Lake City Downhill World Championships 1997 Sestriere Combined 1999 Vail Downhill 2007 Åre Team event 1999 Vail Combined 1999 Vail Super-G 2001 St. Anton Downhill 2005 Bormio Team event 2005 Bormio Downhill 2007 Åre Super-G Junior World Ski Championships 1993 Monte Campione Slalom

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Götschl made her World Cup debut in 1993, on 14 March 1993, winning the slalom in Lillehammer, Norway. This was followed by more than 100 podium (top 3) results, including at least one win in four of the five disciplines; only a giant slalom win has eluded her, the best result in this discipline being a second place in Lienz in December 2003.^[2]

She won the overall World Cup title in 2000, and she has also won five World Cup discipline titles in downhill (1997, 1999, 2004, 2005 and 2007), three in super-G (2000, 2004 and 2007), and two in combined (2000 and 2002).

Götschl has won nine medals at the World Championships, including gold medals in combined (1997) in downhill (1999) and in team event (2007). At the 2002 Winter Olympics, she won a silver medal in combined and a bronze medal in the downhill.

On 28 January 2007, when she was second in a super-G in San Sicario, she celebrated her 100th podium in World Cup. Her total of 46 World Cup race wins (as of 14 March 2007) is fifth all-time among women, behind only Lindsey Vonn, Mikaela Shiffrin, Annemarie Moser-Pröll, and Vreni Schneider. One of her favorite slopes is in Cortina d'Ampezzo, Italy, where on 20 January 2007 she became the first alpine skier ever to win 10 races at a single World Cup venue. This highscore was held until December 2011 when Lindsey Vonn celebrated her ninth, tenth and eleventh victory on three consecutive days in Lake Louise, Canada.