Petra Kronberger

By the beginning of the 1992-93 season, the pressures of being the star of the long-overshadowed Austrian team were beginning to wear on Kronberger. She had lost her motivation to compete, she said, and her weak results in the first few events of that season showed it. Only a few months into the season, she quit the Austrian national team and went back to Pfarwerfen. Still, the Swiss national team's decade-long dominance of the skiing world had been broken, and Kronberger's Austrian compatriots will long remember her for that.