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Martina Altenberger

Personal information
Born	Niedernsill, Austria
Sport
Country	Austria
Sport	Alpine skiing
Medal record Alpine skiing Representing  Austria Paralympic Games 1988 Innsbruck Downhill LW6/8 1988 Innsbruck Giant slalom LW6/8 1988 Innsbruck Slalom LW6/8

Martina Altenberger is an Austrian Paralympic alpine skier. She represented Austria in Para-alpine skiing, at the 1988 Paralympic Winter Games in Innsbbruck, winner of three gold medals.

Career

She competed at the 1986 World Disabled Ski Championships.

She competed in the Innsbruck 1988 Winter Paralympics in the LW6 / 8 category, Altenberger won three gold medals: in the giant slalom (with a time of 1: 45.59, besting the American Kathy Pitcher, who won silver in 2: 00.57 and the Polish Eszbieta Dadok, bronze in 2: 06.05, slalom (time 1: 15.63; in 2nd place Gunilla Ahren in 1: 19.09 and in third place Eszbieta Dadok in 1: 37.46), and downhill (race ended in 1: 13.87, ahead of Nancy Gustafson in 1: 14.51 and Gunilla Ahrenin 1: 17.64.

She trained with Skiclub Niedernsill.

References

1. "Martina Altenberger - Alpine skiing | Paralympic Athlete Profile". International Paralympic Committee. Retrieved 2022-10-26.
2. "Disabled skiers sweep worlds". Skiing. September 1986.
3. "Innsbruck 1988 - alpine-skiing – womens-giant-slalom-lw68". International Paralympic Committee. Retrieved 2022-10-26.
4. "Innsbruck 1988 - alpine-skiing – womens-slalom-lw68". International Paralympic Committee. Retrieved 2022-10-26.
5. "Innsbruck 1988 - alpine-skiing – womens-downhill-lw68". International Paralympic Committee. Retrieved 2022-10-26.
6. "Unsere Chronik". Skiclub Niedernsill (in German). Retrieved 2022-10-26.

• Living people
• Paralympic alpine skiers for Austria
• Paralympic gold medalists for Austria
• Austrian female alpine skiers
• Alpine skiers at the 1988 Winter Paralympics
• Medalists at the 1988 Winter Paralympics
• 20th-century Austrian sportswomen