Markus Wasmeier

Markus Wasmeier (born 9 September 1963 is a former World Cup alpine ski racer from Germany. He was world champion and twice Olympic champion.[1]

Markus Wasmeier
Alpine skier
Wasmeier in July 2011
DisciplinesDownhill, Super-G,
Giant Slalom, Combined
Born (1963-09-09) 9 September 1963
Schliersee, Bavaria,
West Germany
Height181 cm (5 ft 11 in)
World Cup debut29 January 1984 (age 20)
RetiredMarch 1994 (age 30)
Websitewasmeier.de
Olympics
Teams3 - (1988, 1992, 1994)
Medals2 (2 gold)
World Championships
Teams5 - (19851993)
Medals2 (1 gold)
World Cup
Seasons11 - (198494)
Wins9 - (2 DH, 6 SG, 1 K)
Podiums31
Overall titles0 - (3rd in 1986, 1987)
Discipline titles1 - (1 SG, 1986)

At the 1985 World Championships at Bormio, Italy, he won the Giant Slalom at age 21, before recording a World Cup victory.

Born in Schliersee, Bavaria, West Germany, Wasmeier's first World Cup Race was on February 5, 1983, when he ´finished 49th in the Downhill Race at St. Anton am Arlberg. He gained his first World Cup points in January 1984 by capturing 10th place in the Alpine Combined at Garmisch-Partenkirchen, and that December, he achieved his first podium in (Giant Slalom at Sestiere, Italy). In a downhill race on February 1987 at Furano, Japan, he broke two vertebrae and missed the rest of the season.

Wasmeier won a total of nine World Cup races, starting with two victories on 9 February 1986, in the Combined and Super-G events at Morzine, France.

The surprising result of double Olympic gold for Wasmeier at age thirty gained him the title of 1994 "Sportsman of the Year" in Germany,

World Cup results

Season standings

SeasonAgeOverallSlalomGiant
Slalom
Super GDownhillCombined
1984206127not
awarded
31
198521109195
19862234181142
1987233446314
1988246152144
198925521692
19902620299173
19912740611
199228723963
199329144435131713
1994302517103815

Season titles

Season Discipline
1986Super-G

Individual races

9 wins (2 DH, 6 SG, 1 K)

Season Date Location Discipline
19869 February 1986Morzine, FranceCombined
Super-G
16 March 1986Whistler, CanadaSuper G
19876 December 1986Val-d'Isère, FranceSuper-G
11 January 1987Garmisch, West GermanySuper G
17 January 1987Wengen, SwitzerlandDownhill
198810 January 1988Val-d'Isère, FranceSuper G
199117 March 1991Lake Louise, CanadaSuper G
199211 January 1992Garmisch, GermanyDownhill

World championship results

  Year   Age  Slalom  Giant 
 Slalom 
Super-GDownhillCombined
1985211not run207
19872313395
198925135295
1991271324DNF
1993299canceled3514

Olympic results

  Year   Age  Slalom  Giant 
 Slalom 
Super-GDownhillCombined
19882419DNF67
199228DNF1945
1994301136DNS SL1

After racing

After retiring from competitive skiing, Wasmeier founded the farm and winter sport museum Bauernhof- und Wintersportmuseum Schliersee on May 1, 2007, and he has remained its curator and patron ever since. The museum provides insight into traditional Bavarian peasant life and aims to preserve old traditions by communicating them to coming generations.[2]

In 2009, Wasmeier shared his passion for building restoration and preserving tradition with an international group of young people through his involvement with the D&F Academy (now The DO School). Wasmeier worked with an international group of young people to restore a 17th-century farmhouse in the German Alps utilizing original materials, traditional tools, wood-crafting and handicraft techniques.[3] He remains involved with the DO School as an advisor and supporter.[4]

From 1993 to 1994, he was a commentator for the German Television Broadcaster ARD until 2007 and from 2008 until 2014. He is a consultant in the German Skiing Federation since 2000. Married since 1991, his wife Brigitte is a South Tyrolian.

References

  1. "Markus Wasmeier GER". Retrieved 12 March 2014.
  2. "Old Bavarian Village, Schliersee". Retrieved 19 February 2014.
  3. Jahr, Jonica. "Ein Mann, der mit dem Herzen denkt!".
  4. "The DO School Advisors". Archived from the original on 20 March 2014. Retrieved 19 February 2014.
Awards
Preceded by
Henry Maske
German Sportsman of the Year
1994
Succeeded by
Michael Schumacher
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