Verena Vreni Schneider is a retired Swiss alpine ski racer born November 26, 1964, in Elm, Glarus, considered the most successful alpine ski racer in Swiss history and honored as Swiss Sportswoman of the Century. She won 55 World Cup races over her career, fourth all time among women, along with three overall World Cup titles and eleven discipline titles, and took five Olympic medals including three golds, in the slalom and giant slalom at the 1988 Calgary Games and the slalom at the 1994 Lillehammer Games. She also won three World Championship gold medals, in the giant slalom at Crans-Montana in 1987 and Vail in 1989 and the slalom at Saalbach in 1991, and during the 1988-89 season she won 14 World Cup races, a single season record that stood until Mikaela Shiffrin broke it in 2018-19; she retired in 1995 after eleven seasons.
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Career HighlightThree Olympic golds: slalom and giant slalom 1988, slalom 1994 1 Classification
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What made Vreni Schneider's 1988-89 World Cup season so dominant?
She won a record 13 World Cup races and a combined event in 1988-89.
In the 1988-89 season Vreni Schneider won a record 13 World Cup races and a combined event, including all seven slaloms held that winter. It was the high point of a career in which she was the overall World Cup winner three times and was never out of the top six in the final ratings for ten successive years.
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Verena "Vreni" Schneider (born 26 November 1964) is a retired ski racer from Switzerland.
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Verena "Vreni" Schneider (born 26 November 1964) is a retired ski racer from Switzerland.
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Verena "Vreni" Schneider (born 26 November 1964) is a retired ski racer from Switzerland.
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Verena "Vreni" Schneider (born 26 November 1964) is a retired ski racer from Switzerland.
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She also won five medals at the Winter Olympics including 3 golds (Slalom and giant slalom at Calgary in 1988 and Slalom at Lillehammer in 1994).
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She is the most successful alpine ski racer of her country, the fourth most successful female ski racer ever (after Lindsey Vonn, Annemarie Moser-Pröll and Mikaela Shiffrin) and was voted "Swiss Sportswoman of the Century".
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Verena "Vreni" Schneider (born 26 November 1964) is a retired ski racer from Switzerland.
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Schneider won both the slalom and giant slalom at the 1988 Olympic Winter Games.
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