Annemarie Moser-Pröll

Austrian alpine skier regarded as the greatest female ski racer of the 1970s, holding a record six overall World Cup titles including five consecutive.

Annemarie Moser-Pröll was born on 27 March 1953 in Kleinarl, Salzburg, one of eight children on an Austrian farm, learning on hand-whittled skis her father made when she was four. She burst onto the World Cup circuit in 1970 and dominated the sport for a decade, winning a then-record 11 consecutive downhill races in the 1972-73 season alone, including all eight downhills that year. Moser-Pröll won the overall World Cup title five consecutive times from 1971 to 1975, an all-time record for men or women, but stepped away from the sport in 1975-76 to care for her father, who was dying of lung cancer, missing the entire season including the 1976 Innsbruck Olympics held in her home country. After his death, she returned to racing and won a sixth overall title in 1979. Her Olympic career had long been overshadowed by near misses, including two silver medals at the 1972 Sapporo Games, but she finally won gold in the downhill at the 1980 Lake Placid Olympics in her final competitive event, retiring immediately after at the peak of her sport. She finished her career with 62 individual World Cup victories, a women's record that stood until Lindsey Vonn surpassed it in 2015, and remains third all-time behind only Vonn and Mikaela Shiffrin.

Powerful, aggressive downhill and giant slalom specialist known for her explosive starts and dominant winning margins

Widely considered the greatest female ski racer of her era and one of the sport's all-time greats, her World Cup victory record stood for four decades

• 1980 Olympic Gold Medal, Downhill
• Record 6x Overall World Cup Champion (5 consecutive, 1971-75, plus 1979)
• 5x World Championship gold medalist
• 62 career World Cup victories (women's record until 2015)