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Marcel Hirscher is an Austrian retired World Cup alpine ski racer. He is best known for winning two gold medals at the 2018 Winter Olympics in Pyeongchang, South Korea. Marcel Hirscher also has an Olympic silver medal under his belt and is currently a seven-time World Champion. Hirscher has also won four silver medals in the World Championships so far.
Franz Klammer is an Austrian former alpine ski racer best known for winning a gold medal at the 1976 Winter Olympics in Austria. He also won two gold medals and a silver medal at the World Championships. Franz Klammer did much to foster the popularity of alpine ski racing, for which he was considered a hero by fans in Austria.
Hermann Maier is an Austrian retired alpine ski racer best known for winning two gold medals at the 1998 Winter Olympics in Nagano, Japan. A three-time world champion, Hermann Maier is often counted among the best alpine ski racers of all time.
Austrian alpine ski racer Matthias Mayer is not just a 3-time Olympic gold medalist but also a Junior World Championship silver medalist. The son of Olympic super-G silver medalist alpine ski racer Helmut Mayer, he was destined to take up the sport. He has a bronze medal in the Olympics, too.
Hansi Hinterseer is an Austrian former alpine skier turned singer, actor, and entertainer. As a skier, he won six alpine skiing World Cup races and the silver medal at the world championship in 1974. In the 1980s, he became a technical sports commentator and started a career as a singer and actor in the following decade.
Retired Austrian alpine ski racer Annemarie Moser-Pröll is not just an Olympic gold medalist but has also been a 4-time World Champion. The elder sister of former Olympic alpine skier Cornelia Pröll, she also held the record of winning 6 overall World Cup titles, with 5 of them being consecutive wins.
Anna Fenninger is an Austrian retired alpine ski racer best known for winning a gold medal and a silver medal at the 2014 Olympic Games in Sochi, Russia. She then won a silver medal at the subsequent Winter Olympics in Pyeongchang, South Korea. Veith also won three gold medals, two silver medals, and one bronze medal at the World Championships.
Benjamin Raich is an Austrian retired alpine ski racer best known for winning two gold medals at the 2006 Olympic Games in Turin, Italy. A three-time world champion, Raich had also won five gold medals at the Junior World Ski Championships between 1996 and 1998. Benjamin Raich is regarded as one of the greatest alpine racers in World Cup history.
Austrian alpine ski racer Ulrike Maier was not just a 2-time Olympian but also a 2-time World Champion. Back when she competed, she was the only mother in the World Cup circuit. She died after breaking her neck in a downhill race in Germany at age 26.
Erik Schinegger is an Austrian intersex skier who won the women's downhill ski world championship title in 1966, when he was recognized as female. Prior to the 1968 Winter Olympics, a medical examination disclosed that he was genetically male. He then changed his name from Erika to Erik Schinegger after going through a surgery.
Gernot Reinstadler was an Austrian ski racer who was considered one of the most promising young talents of the national downhill team of the early-1990s. Gernot Reinstadler died in a crash in 1991, post which safety measures were improved.
Austrian World Cup alpine ski-racer Katharina Liensberger is the present world champion in women’s slalom and parallel giant slalom competitions, the two technical events that she specialises in. She achieved her first World Cup career victories at 2020-2021 FIS Alpine Ski World Cup. Other feats of Liensberger include winning silver for slalom and gold with team at the 2022 Olympics.
Popularly known as the Blitz from Kitz, Austrian alpine ski racer Toni Sailer was not just a 3-time Olympic gold medalist but had also won 7 World Championship gold medals. Post-retirement, he became a hotelier and an entertainer. He also served as the technical director of the Austrian national alpine team.
Regarded as one of Austria’s best alpine ski racers of all time, Karl Schranz was not just a 3-time World Champion but has also won an Olympic silver medal. Born into a working-class family, he had started training using broken skis discarded by tourists. He now owns a hotel named after him.
Marlies Schild is an Austrian former alpine ski racer best known for winning two gold medals at the World Championships. She also won three silver medals and two bronze medals at the World Championships. Marlies Schild also won three silver medals and a bronze medal at the Olympic Games.
