Isolde Kostner

Isolde Kostner

Personal information
Nationality	Italian
Born	(1975-03-20) 20 March 1975 (age 42) Bolzano, Italy
Height	171 cm (5 ft 7 in)
Weight	66 kg (146 lb)
Sport
Country	Italy
Sport	Alpine skiing
Medal record Olympic Games Woman’s Alpine skiing 2002 Salt Lake City Downhill 1994 Lillehammer Super G 1994 Lillehammer Downhill World Championships 1996 Sierra Nevada Super G 1997 Sestrières Super G 2001 St. Anton Super G

Isolde Kostner (born 20 March 1975) is an Italian former Alpine skier who won two bronze medals at the 1994 Winter Olympics and a silver medal at the 2002 Winter Olympics. She was the Italian flag bearer at the opening ceremony of the 2002 Olympics.

Kostner won two gold medals in Super-G at the Alpine Ski World Championships in 1996 and 1997, and in 2001 and 2002 she won the World Cup discipline title in Downhill. Her first World Cup win was in the downhill on January 29th, 1994, at Garmisch-Partenkirchen this was, however, overshadowed by the death of Ulrike Maier on the same day.

Kostner was born in Bolzano. Her cousin and goddaughter is Carolina Kostner, the 2012 World champion and 2014 olympic bronze medalist in figure skating.

She announced her retirement on January 10, 2006.

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