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- Cup title. She did it again
- in 1980. At that yearΓÇÖs
- Winter Olympics, in Lake
- Placid, New York, Hanni
- skied in all three Alpine
- events. Her first event was the downhill.
- Although it was not her strongest event, she
- won the silver medal. Four days later, she
- won the gold in the giant slalom. She won a
- second gold medal in her final event, the
- slalom. With that win, Hanni joined Rosi
- Mittermaier as the only women to win three
- Alpine skiing medals at one Olympics.
-
- Hanni wasnΓÇÖt the only Wenzel winning
- medals for Liechtenstein in 1980. Her
- brother, Andreas, won a silver in the
- menΓÇÖs giant slalom.
-