She also won a silver medal at the 1980 Winter Olympic Games in giant slalom.

In the 1978 FIS Alpine Skiing World Championships at Garmisch-Partenkirchen she won the silver medal in the downhill.

On 9 January 1983 she won the first women's World Cup Super-G race, held in Verbier.

In 1992 she completed her medical studies in Munich, and in November 1994 married Theo Waigel, who was the German Finance Minister from 1989 to 1998.

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