Renate Götschl

Renate Götschl |

Despite her young age, Renate Götschl is already one of Styria’s most widely known personalities on the international scene – thanks to her outstanding performance on the ski slopes in Austria and abroad. 


1975  Renate Götschl is born in Obdach in Styria. 

1985-1992  Even as a schoolgirl, Renate was a formidable skier, emerging as the winner from numerous junior races. She competed in her first FIS race at the age of 15. In 1992 she was nominated for the European Cup race in Mariazell, which she won. 

1992-1996  The young skier achieves her first international successes, with top placings in many races at home and abroad. 

Since 1996  Renate Götschl scores victory after victory, including two first places at the World Championships in Vail and Sestriere. Today, she has 19 wins in World Cup races to her credit. At the 1998 Olympics in Nagano she is placed fifth – an excellent achievement.

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The successful skier was born on 6 August 1975 as the daughter of Anton and Frieda Götschl. Growing up with her three older brothers on her parents’ farm in Obdach, Renate became fascinated by skiing in her earliest childhood. At the tender kindergarten age of four, she won a race which was really intended for children of school age.

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During her elementary school years in St. Georgen im Obdachegg and her secondary school years in Obdach she competed in various ski races, from which she usually came home as the winner. Later, Renate attended the skiing and trade school in Schladming. At the age of 15, she began to participate in FIS races. Here too she performed well, and shortly afterwards, in 1992, she was nominated for the European Cup race in Mariazell, which she won. A year later, aged only 17, she won her first World Cup race in Lillehammer. In the same year, she won her first World Cup super G race in Flachau.
For a while after that, she made rather fewer headlines. While she did compete in most of the races, she did so with only moderate success.

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In the 1996/97 season, she once again showed the world what she could do. At the World Championships in Sestriere she was not only always in the top 10, but also the best Austrian skier in all the ratings. Additionally, she won the gold medal in the alpine combination. Her performance in the following season too was very respectable, though she did not win her next World Championships title until 1999. In Vail, she took gold in the downhill event and silver in the super G. In 1999/2000, Renate Götschl won the Overall World Cup.
Today, the young Styrian athlete has 19 World Cup victories to her credit, with 51 placings in the first three and 96 in the first ten.