Website wasmeier.de Name Markus Wasmeier Teams 3 - (1988–94) Role Alpine ski racer | Teams 5 - (1985–93) Height 1.81 m Seasons 11 - (1984–94) Retired March 1994 | |
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Disciplines Downhill, Super G,
Giant Slalom, Combined Born 9 September 1963 (age 60) ( 1963-09-09 ) World Cup debut 29 January, 1984 (age 20) Spouse Brigitte Wasmeier (m. 1991) Children Kilian Wasmeier, Lukas Wasmeier, Markus Wasmeier Olympic medals Alpine skiing at the 1994 Winter Olympics – Men's Super-G Similar People Kjetil Andre Aamodt, Tommy Moe, Urs Kalin, Christian Mayer, Erich Kuhnhackl | ||
Markus Wasmeier Olympic super-G gold (Lillehammer 1994)
Markus Wasmeier (born 9 September 1963 in Schliersee, Bavaria, Germany) is a former alpine ski racer. He was world champion and twice Olympic champion.
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At the 1985 World Championships at Bormio, Italy, he won the Giant Slalom at age 21, before recording a World Cup victory.
His 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 by capturing 10th place in the Alpine Combined at Garmisch-Partenkirchen on January 29, 1984, and on December 11th, 1984, he achieved his first podium in (Giant Slalom at Sestiere). In a downhill race on February 28, 1987, at Furano 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 30 gained him the title of 1994 "Sportsman of the Year" in Germany,
Individual races
9 wins (2 DH, 6 SG, 1 K)
Today
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.
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. He remains involved with the DO School as an advisor and supporter.
From 1993-94 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. He is married since 1991, his wife Brigitte is a South Tyrolian.