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Marcel Hirscher eight overall World Cup and 15 medals between Olympicxs and World Championships.. The Austria national alpine ski team, also known as Wunderteam, represents Austria in International alpine skiing competitions such as Winter Olympic Games, FIS Alpine Ski World Cup and FIS Alpine World Ski Championships.
He was the oldest gold medalist (age 34 in 2006) in Olympic alpine skiing, [6] until passed by several months in 2014 by Mario Matt, also 34. [7] Austrian Traudl Hecher remains the youngest medalist in Olympic alpine skiing; she won bronze in the downhill at age 16 in 1960. [8]
The 48th FIS Alpine World Ski Championships were held from 4 to 16 February 2025 in Saalbach-Hinterglemm, Austria. The location was scheduled to be decided in May 2020 during the 52nd FIS Congress in Pattaya, Thailand, but was cancelled to the COVID-19 pandemic. The vote took place during a video conference on 3 October 2020.
Austria's Stephanie Venier celebrates at the finish area of a women's Super-G, at the Alpine Ski World Championships, in Saalbach-Hinterglemm, Austria, Thursday, Feb. 6, 2025.
The women's giant slalom in the 2025 FIS Alpine Skiing World Cup is scheduled to include ten events, including the final. [1] The season opened in Sölden , Austria on 26 October 2024. Defending champion Lara Gut-Behrami of Switzerland returned but found several challengers, including 2020 discipline champion Federica Brignone of Italy, Sweden ...
Second, Marcel Hirscher of Austria, who retired from Alpine skiing in 2019 after winning eight consecutive men's overall titles, decided to return after five years away from the sport . . . but, like Braathen, for his mother's home nation: the Netherlands (again, with the approval of Austria). [5]
During Olympic years from 1956 through 1980, FIS World Championship medals were awarded in the combined, but not Olympic medals. The combined returned as a separately run event in 1982 with its own downhill and two-run slalom, and the Super-G was added to the program in 1987 (both disciplines were also added to the Olympics in 1988).
Czech Republic's Ester Ledecka speeds down the course during an alpine ski, women's World Championship downhill training, in Saalbach-Hinterglemm, Austria, Tuesday, Feb. 4, 2025. (AP Photo/Marco ...