Christine Sponring

Christine Sponring was an Austrian all-round Alpine skier who retired at the early age of 25 years after several injuries. She participated at the 2002 Salt Lake City Winter Olympics but failed to finish both the slalom and Alpine combined event. She had won a slalom gold medal at the 2001 Youth World Championships and a downhill bronze the previous year. At World Championships she won the Alpine combined silver medal in 2001.

Domestically, Sponring won three titles: 2000 Alpine combined, 2001 slalom, and 2005 downhill. In 2007, she won the overall downhill European Cup.