She did not win any medals there, but she did give a good performance for an athlete still in her teen years: she finished sixth in the downhill and eleventh in the combined.

This made her an instant hero in Austria: ever since that country's skiing star of the 1970s, Annemarie Pröll (later Moser-Pröll) had retired, the Swiss team had almost completely dominated the alpine world, which had long rankled the Austrian fans.

Over the course of thirty-eight days in December 1990 and January 1991, Kronberger became the first skier in the modern era to win one race in each of the five alpine events in one season.

[1] Her decision to retire from competitive skiing on 25 December 1992 due to loss of motivation to compete any further came as a big surprise to the skiing community..[citation needed] Kronberger did catch up on her matriculation, did start studies in German philology and history of art at the university in the borough of Salzburg, did act as an assistant at a university.

Since November 2015 she is employed at the Austrian Skiing Federation, and since 16 January 2016 she is a "Frauenbeauftragte" (maybe translated as commissioner for women's affairs) there (cit.