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Barbara Schett is an Austrian retired tennis player best known for representing Austria in 48 matches at the prestigious Billie Jean King Cup, where she helped the Austria Fed Cup team win 30 matches between 1993 and 2004. Since her retirement, Barbara Schett has been working as a presenter and commentator and is currently associated with Eurosport.
Retired Austrian alpine ski racer Annemarie Moser-Pröll is not just an Olympic gold medalist but has also been a 4-time World Champion. The elder sister of former Olympic alpine skier Cornelia Pröll, she also held the record of winning 6 overall World Cup titles, with 5 of them being consecutive wins.
Apart from being a 2-time Olympic gold medalist, Austrian snowboarder Anna Gasser is also a former World Champion and a 2-time Winter X Games champion. While she initially wished to be a vet, her love for jumping and aerial acrobatics made her take up snowboarding as a profession.
Austrian ski-jumper and footballer Daniela Iraschko-Stolz, counted among most-successful female-athletes of ski-jumping, holds ski-flying world-record since 2003 as the first and till-present only-woman to fly over 200 metres. Her feats in ski-jumping includes three individual-victories at Holmenkollen Ski Festival, winning women's Continental Cup, and silver at 2014 Winter Olympics. In football, she became Austrian Cup finalist twice with Wacker Innsbruck.
Anna Fenninger is an Austrian retired alpine ski racer best known for winning a gold medal and a silver medal at the 2014 Olympic Games in Sochi, Russia. She then won a silver medal at the subsequent Winter Olympics in Pyeongchang, South Korea. Veith also won three gold medals, two silver medals, and one bronze medal at the World Championships.
Austrian alpine ski racer Ulrike Maier was not just a 2-time Olympian but also a 2-time World Champion. Back when she competed, she was the only mother in the World Cup circuit. She died after breaking her neck in a downhill race in Germany at age 26.
Manuela Zinsberger is an Austrian football player who plays for the Austria women's national football team and Arsenal Women Football Club. A reliable goalkeeper, Zinsberger was the Golden Glove Winner at the 2022 Women's Super League for Arsenal.
Austrian World Cup alpine ski-racer Katharina Liensberger is the present world champion in women’s slalom and parallel giant slalom competitions, the two technical events that she specialises in. She achieved her first World Cup career victories at 2020-2021 FIS Alpine Ski World Cup. Other feats of Liensberger include winning silver for slalom and gold with team at the 2022 Olympics.
Johanna Bassani was an Austrian combined ski jumper and Nordic skier. After starting her career at the age of 12, Bassani went on to establish herself as an important skier and made it to the national team in 2020 when she was selected to take part in the Nordic Junior World Ski Championships. However, she committed suicide at age 18.
Marlies Schild is an Austrian former alpine ski racer best known for winning two gold medals at the World Championships. She also won three silver medals and two bronze medals at the World Championships. Marlies Schild also won three silver medals and a bronze medal at the Olympic Games.
Moldovan-Austrian table tennis player Sofia Polcanova is not just a 2-time Olympian but has also won 2 European Championship gold medals. Known for her signature left-handed shakehand grip, she also plays for the Japanese table tennis club Kinoshita Abyell Kanagawa.
