Katja Seizinger is one of the few great skiers
not born on a mountain. In fact she started life near Dortmund
, which I'm told is quite flat. She learnt to ski on
family holidays in France and found she had a great talent.
She entered the World Junior Championships in 1989/90 and came away with a bag full
of medals. She then went on to represent Germany in the F.I.S.
World Cup and
in her first year was 44th overall. Over the next few years her success
increased and in 1996 she
took the Overall Championship Crystal globe.
Her first medal was a bronze in the 1992 Olympics at Albertville
in the Super G.
This was followed by a gold in the same event
at the 1993 World Championshipships at Morioka, Japan.
But her greatest achievement was winning the Downhill Gold at
the Liillehammer Games in 1994, if there is one race skiers want to win
it is this-everybody watches the Downhill and everybody saw Katja
clinch it that year.
Other successes included Silver at the World Championships
of 1996 and 1997 in the Downhill
and Silver at the 1997 world Championships.
