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- Four years before Hanni Wenzel won two
- golds and one silver medal at the 1980
- Olympics, Rosi Mittermaier of West
- Germany did the same thing. Competing in
- her third Olympics, Rosi won gold medals
- in the slalom and downhill, and a silver
- medal in the giant slalom. Rosi was also
- the overall World Cup champion in 1976.
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- Vreni Schneider of Switzerland won three
- medals at the 1994 Olympics: a gold in the
- slalom, a silver in the Alpine combined, and
- a bronze in the giant slalom. At the 1988
- Olympics, Vreni won two gold medals, in the
- slalom and giant slalom. That season,
- Vreni also won 14 World Cup events,
- breaking Ingemar StenmarkΓÇÖs record of 13!