Hermann Maier
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Hermann Maier in December 2006 |
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nation | Austria | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
birthday | 7th December 1972 (age 47) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
place of birth | Altenmarkt im Pongau , Austria | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
size | 181 cm | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Weight | 86 kg | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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Downhill , Super-G , giant slalom , slalom , combination |
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society | USC Flachau | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
status | resigned | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
End of career | October 13, 2009 | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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Hermann Maier (born December 7, 1972 in Altenmarkt im Pongau ) is a former Austrian ski racer from Flachau . He was twice Olympic champion , three times world champion and won the overall world cup four times . In addition, he won a World Cup discipline ten times. In the election for Austria's Sportsman of the Year , he was honored four times and also received two honorary awards. He also received a Laureus World Sports Award in 2004 in the “ Comeback of the Year ” category .
Career
Beginning and breakthrough (1996–1997)
Hermann Maier, a trained bricklayer and state-certified ski instructor, suffered from Osgood-Schlatter's disease in his youth , which meant that his talent remained hidden for a long time. On January 6th, 1996 he took part as a forerunner in a World Cup giant slalom in his home town of Flachau and was noticed that if he had been ranked, he would have finished twelfth. The Austrian Ski Association honored this achievement and just two days later had Maier start in the European Cup for the first time in a giant slalom in Les Arcs , where he finished second behind Steve Locher . After further appearances and five victories in the European Cup, Hermann Maier made his World Cup debut in the same season, on February 10, 1996, in a giant slalom in Hinterstoder at the age of 23, and with 26th place went straight to the point.
His first full World Cup season in 1996/97 was mixed. Maier was initially only used in the giant slalom: He was eliminated from the starting competition in Sölden in the first run. He set a highlight on November 25th in Park City with rank 6. In Chamonix he was used for the first time in a World Cup downhill on January 11th, 1997, where he fell badly and injured his hand, so that a nomination for the world championship in Sestriere was out of the question. But right away at the World Cup comeback, at the two Super Gs in Garmisch-Partenkirchen , Maier showed. After he achieved his first World Cup podium on February 21, 1997 with second place behind Frenchman Luc Alphand , he celebrated his first World Cup victory two days later, on February 23, relegating Kristian Ghedina and Lasse Kjus to their places.
Breakthrough and double Olympic victory (1997/98)
However, Hermann Maier only made the real breakthrough in the 1997/98 season . This winter, the Flachau man won two World Cup runs, three giant slaloms, a combination and four Super-Gs. Maier secured the overall World Cup for the first time in front of his two teammates Andreas Schifferer and Stephan Eberharter and also won the crystal balls in the Super-G and in the giant slalom. In the Downhill World Cup, the Salzburg man only had to admit defeat to Schifferer.
This season, Hermann Maier also took part in his first title fights. His competitions at the 1998 Winter Olympics in Nagano , Japan were spectacular. The first competition in which Maier participated was the combination slalom, after which he was in a promising position. Due to a snow storm that hit the Olympic ski slopes, both the combined and the classic downhill had to be postponed again and again and were finally held on the same day, February 13th. But Maier had a hard fall during the downhill run. After about 18 seconds of driving time, the Austrian took off from an S-curve, sailed almost 40 meters horizontally through the air and finally landed in deep snow outside the piste. However, he only suffered minor injuries to his knees and shoulders, took part in the Olympic Super-G again three days later and sensationally won the gold medal in front of the ex-aequo-placed Hans Knauß and Didier Cuche . He benefited from the fact that this Super-G was not held on the scheduled date, February 14th - fog prevented it from being held on that date and on February 15th, but only on February 16th. This enabled him to better recover from the injuries. In the giant slalom, Maier didn't give the competition a chance and relegated Stephan Eberharter and Michael von Grünigen to their places. When asked what he thought during his fall, he said: "If I win gold now, I will be immortal!" The images of his fall went around the world, were an event on the major US broadcasters and made it on almost all title pages. Through this fall and the successes that followed, Hermann Maier achieved worldwide fame and was nicknamed "Herminator" - in reference to the Austrian-born " Terminator " Arnold Schwarzenegger . In 1998 Maier was awarded the Skieur d'Or for the first time by the International Association of Ski Journalists (AIJS) .
Further successes (1998-2001)
The other years were no less successful for the double Olympic champion. In the 1998/99 season , Maier had to give way to the Norwegians Lasse Kjus and Kjetil André Aamodt in the overall World Cup, but in addition to the small crystal ball for the Super G World Cup at the 1999 World Cup in Vail / Beaver Creek , Maier secured two world championship titles. After he had to share the title in his favorite discipline, the Super-G, with Lasse Kjus, he kept the Norwegian at a distance in the downhill. World Cup dominator Kjus became vice world champion. Maier achieved first place in the unmatched nine-time victory of the ÖSV ski team on the Patscherkofel.
The Austrian dominated the following season 1999/2000 at will. With exactly 2000 World Cup points, Hermann Maier set a men's record that is still valid today. In addition to the crystal ball for the overall World Cup, the man from Flachau also secured the one for downhill, super G and giant slalom.
Also in winter 2000/01 Maier won the crystal balls in his three special disciplines as well as in the overall world cup. This season he was successful in the World Cup 13 times - including his only victory in the downhill race on the Streif in Kitzbühel - with which he set the record of Sweden's Ingemar Stenmark from the 1978/79 season . Because of these successes, the expectations for the 2001 home world championships in St. Anton am Arlberg were naturally high. But Maier could not defend his title in the downhill or in the Super-G and had to be satisfied with silver in the downhill race behind Hannes Trinkl and bronze in his favorite discipline , the Super-G. In the giant slalom, the man from Salzburg missed the bronze medal by a hundredth of a second and finished fourth.
Motorcycle accident (2001)
During an evening ride on a motorcycle , Maier was involved in a serious accident on August 24, 2001 in Radstadt , near his home town: Maier overtook a car and was hit by a car that turned incorrectly. He suffered an open lower leg fracture on his right leg and numerous other serious injuries. Maier was operated on for seven hours in the Salzburg accident hospital. At first it wasn't clear if he would ever ski again, as a leg amputation was even considered. Maier later received an unpublished sum from the other party in the accident, who was also fined 750 euros for negligent bodily harm. The court found that Maier was only slightly complicit in overtaking when the traffic situation was unclear.
Hermann Maier had to skip the entire 2001/02 season and the 2002 Winter Olympics in Salt Lake City . For the next two seasons, rival Stephan Eberharter, who had previously been in his shadow, took over the role of the dominant ski racer .
Comeback and further successes (2003-2006)
Due to the lengthy recovery, Hermann Maier was only able to participate again in the winter of 2002/03 . On January 14th, Maier made his long-awaited comeback at the giant slalom in Adelboden , where he was unable to qualify for the second run (with 31st place and a minimal gap of 0.05 seconds). After sensational results on the runs from Wengen and Kitzbühel , where he even finished sixth, Maier celebrated his 42nd World Cup victory on January 27, 2003 in the Super-G on his favorite track, the Streif in Kitzbühel, his first World Cup victory after the injury. all in all. Just six days later, at the 2003 World Championships in St. Moritz, he was runner -up with American Bode Miller in the Super-G, beaten only by Stephan Eberharter . After a good eighth place in the World Cup downhill race, Maier ended this season.
The sensational comeback of the Austrian continued in the following 2003/04 season . Maier celebrated five wins this season (three in Super-G, two in Downhill) and secured the overall World Cup for the fourth time by beating his team-mate and fiercest opponent Stephan Eberharter by 42 points. The crystal ball in the Super-G also went to Salzburg. These two balls should be the last. For his brilliant return to the ski circuit, Maier received the Laureus World Sports Award in the “Comeback of the Year” category in 2004, and he also received the Skieur d'Or award for the second time.
After only one win of the season at the Super-G in Kitzbühel during the 2005 World Championship in Bormio, the media dismissed Maier as the “old iron” of ÖSV racers. With 17th place in downhill skiing and fourth in Super-G, the critics were initially right. But in his last competition, the Flachau struck him. Almost four years after his most recent victory in this discipline, he became world champion in giant slalom ahead of teammates Benjamin Raich and Daron Rahlves from the USA. In the further course of the season Maier won the Downhill and Super-G in Kvitfjell , but lost the already-seeming Super-G crystal ball against Bode Miller at the season finale in Lenzerheide with ninth place .
The final of the 2005/06 season was similarly bitter . Here, too, Hermann Maier traveled as the Super-G World Cup leader, finished fourth and finally had two points behind Norwegian Aksel Lund Svindal , who was nine hundredths of a second ahead of Maier in third place. But the highlight of this season, in which Maier was able to celebrate one victory each in Downhill, Super-G and Giant Slalom, were the Winter Olympics in Turin - for the Austrian only the second after those in Nagano in 1998. After finishing sixth in the downhill, Hermann Maier took silver in the Super-G and the bronze medal in the giant slalom. In the Super-G, the 1998 Olympic champion had to admit defeat by only 13 hundredths to that of 1992, 2002 and 2006, the Norwegian Kjetil André Aamodt . In the giant slalom, Benjamin Raich and the Frenchman Joël Chenal were slightly faster than the Salzburg man.
The last years before the end of his career (2007-2009)
The 2006/07 and 2007/08 seasons were anything but ideal for Maier. He was unable to win a single World Cup race in these two winters and was only on the podium twice - in December 2006 as third in the Super-G in Hinterstoder and in January 2008 as second in the same discipline in Kitzbühel . Also at the 2007 World Championships in Åre , Maier was not successful with seventh place in the Super-G, 13th place in the downhill and 21st place as defending champion in giant slalom. Critics described him as not being aggressive enough and accused him of a lack of motivation and lack of commitment. Even a change of skis from Maier's long-term partner Atomic to HEAD on June 20, 2007 initially didn't work.
Maier was only able to post successes again in the 2008/09 season. Although he was diagnosed with a hairline crack in a lumbar disc after the opening race in Sölden , Maier still went to the overseas races. There he surprisingly won the Super-G of Lake Louise on November 30, 2008 - Maier's first World Cup victory since leaving Garmisch-Partenkirchen in January 2006. At that time, at around 35 years, 11 months and 3 weeks, he was the oldest man -Ski skier of the ÖSV who won a world cup race. At the second Super-G of the season in Beaver Creek , Maier also finished on the podium with second place. Maier, who traveled to the finals in Åre as the Super G World Cup leader, had to be content with a disappointing 17th place and fell back to fourth in the discipline classification. At the 2009 World Championships in Val-d'Isère , Maier, weakened by a stubborn cold, finished 18th in the Super-G and was the best Austrian with sixth place in the downhill. After the season finale, he was operated on on his right knee and skipped all snow training sessions for the new season.
On October 13, 2009, Maier announced his retirement from active skiing in a press conference that was arranged at short notice.
After a career as a ski racer (since 2009)
Maier is still very present in the Austrian media, which is not least due to a long-term advertising contract. As in his active time as an athlete, he can be seen regularly in TV commercials or on poster advertisements. In 2013 Maier worked as an actor with a supporting role in the feature-length spin-off commissioner Rex "Ice Age".
In December 2010 Hermann Maier was the team leader of the victorious Austrian team in the race for the race to the South Pole .
On January 29, 2016, he and Rainer Schönfelder opened a hotel in St. Johann in Tirol .
Others
As a racer, Maier was known for taking full advantage of the course visits, although he often pushed himself to the limit despite warnings. On December 17, 2000, he exceeded the viewing time in the giant slalom in Val-d'Isère , which earned him a disqualification by FIS race director Günter Hujara before the race . On October 28, 2004 Maier presented his autobiography "The Race of My Life".
successes
Maier contested a total of 268 World Cup races and won 54:
24 Super-Gs (record), 15 downhill runs , 14 giant slaloms and a combination . This makes him the third most successful ski racer in the history of the World Cup, after Ingemar Stenmark (86 wins) and Marcel Hirscher (67 wins) . With 96 podium places, he is fourth behind Stenmark, Hirscher and Marc Girardelli . Maier himself also counts the victory in the giant slalom in Val-d'Isère (December 14, 1997) to his statistics, which he was denied because of the unfastening of his ski in front of the red line and which counts the Swiss Michael von Grünigen in the eternal giant slalom top list becomes.
Overall, Maier won the overall World Cup four times (only Girardelli and Hirscher won once or four times more) and ten World Cup disciplines: five times in the Super-G (record with Aksel Lund Svindal ), three times in the giant slalom and twice in the downhill.
Olympic games
- Nagano 1998 : 1st Super-G, 1st giant slalom
- Turin 2006 : 2nd Super-G, 3rd giant slalom, 6th downhill
World championships
- Vail 1999 : 1st Downhill, 1st Super-G
- St. Anton 2001 : 2nd downhill, 3rd Super-G, 4th giant slalom
- St. Moritz 2003 : 2nd Super-G, 8th descent
- Bormio 2005 : 1st giant slalom, 4th Super-G, 17th descent
- Åre 2007 : 7th Super-G, 13th downhill, 21st giant slalom
- Val-d'Isère 2009 : 6th downhill, 18th super-G
World Cup ratings
season | total | Departure | Super G | Giant slalom | slalom | combination | ||||||||
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space | Points | space | Points | space | Points | space | Points | space | Points | space | Points | |||
1995/96 | 106. | 29 | - | - | 34. | 24 | 52. | 5 | - | - | - | - | ||
1996/97 | 21st | 379 | - | - | 4th | 230 | 15th | 149 | - | - | - | - | ||
1997/98 | 1. | 1685 | 2. | 479 | 1. | 400 | 1. | 620 | 39. | 26th | 2. | 100 | ||
1998/99 | 3. | 1307 | 6th | 360 | 1. | 516 | 3. | 371 | - | - | 6th | 60 | ||
1999/00 | 1. | 2000 | 1. | 800 | 1. | 540 | 1. | 520 | - | - | 2. | 140 | ||
2000/01 | 1. | 1618 | 1. | 576 | 1. | 420 | 1. | 622 | - | - | - | - | ||
2001/02 | No results due to injury | |||||||||||||
2002/03 | 45. | 185 | 25th | 85 | 19th | 100 | - | - | - | - | - | - | ||
2003/04 | 1. | 1265 | 3. | 537 | 1. | 580 | 17th | 110 | - | - | 10. | 38 | ||
2004/05 | 3. | 1295 | 3. | 451 | 2. | 453 | 4th | 362 | - | - | 9. | 29 | ||
2005/06 | 6th | 818 | 7th | 305 | 2. | 282 | 8th. | 223 | - | - | 42. | 8th | ||
2006/07 | 19th | 452 | 18th | 189 | 6th | 177 | 16. | 86 | - | - | - | - | ||
2007/08 | 21st | 411 | 16. | 168 | 10. | 192 | 30th | 51 | - | - | - | - | ||
2008/09 | 26th | 343 | 21st | 112 | 4th | 231 | - | - | - | - | - | - |
World Cup victories
Maier achieved a total of 96 podium places, of which 54 wins (15 × downhill, 24 × super-G, 14 × giant slalom, 1 × combination):
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combination
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Individual career statistics
Color legend
1 | 1st place |
2 | 2nd place |
3 | 3rd place |
# | 4th - 30th place (World Cup points) |
# | Placement (no World Cup points) |
NQ | Not qualified for 2DG |
DNS | Not started in 2DG |
DSQ | Disqualified |
DNF | failure |
Olympic Games & World Championships
1995/96 | 1996/97 | 1997/98 | 1998/99 | 1999/00 | 2000/01 | 2001/02 | 2002/03 | 2003/04 | 2004/05 | 2005/06 | 2006/07 | 2007/08 | 2008/09 | S / St | |
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Departure | DNF | 6th | 0/2 | ||||||||||||
Super G (1-1-0) | 1 | 2 | 1/2 | ||||||||||||
Giant slalom (1-0-1) | 1 | 3 | 1/2 | ||||||||||||
Alpine World Ski Championships | |||||||||||||||
Departure (1-1-0) | - | 1 | 2 | 8th | 17th | 13 | 6th | 1/6 | |||||||
Super G (1-1-1) | - | 1 | 3 | 2 | 4th | 7th | 18th | 1/6 | |||||||
Giant slalom (1-0-0) | - | DNF | 4th | - | 1 | 21st | - | 1/4 | |||||||
Major events statistics | |||||||||||||||
1995/96 | 1996/97 | 1997/98 | 1998/99 | 1999/00 | 2000/01 | 2001/02 | 2002/03 | 2003/04 | 2004/05 | 2005/06 | 2006/07 | 2007/08 | 2008/09 | total | |
Starts | - | 3 | 3 | 3 | 2 | 3 | 3 | 3 | 2 | 22nd | |||||
Victories | - | 2 | 2 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 5 | |||||
2nd place | - | 0 | 0 | 1 | 1 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 3 | |||||
3rd place | - | 0 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 2 | |||||
Top 3 | - | 2 | 2 | 2 | 1 | 1 | 2 | 0 | 0 | 10 | |||||
Top 10 | - | 2 | 2 | 3 | 2 | 2 | 3 | 1 | 1 | 16 | |||||
Failures | - | 1 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 2 |
World cup
Overall World Cup
1995/96 | 1996/97 | 1997/98 | 1998/99 | 1999/00 | 2000/01 | 2001/02 | 2002/03 | 2003/04 | 2004/05 | 2005/06 | 2006/07 | 2007/08 | 2008/09 | total | |
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World Cup statistics | |||||||||||||||
Starts | 3 | 12 | 23 | 28 | 30th | 23 | 5 | 30th | 27 | 24 | 22nd | 23 | 18th | 268 | |
Victories | 0 | 1 | 10 | 7th | 10 | 13 | 1 | 5 | 3 | 3 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 54 | |
2nd place | 0 | 1 | 2 | 1 | 7th | 1 | 0 | 2 | 5 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 1 | 21st | |
3rd place | 0 | 0 | 7th | 3 | 5 | 1 | 0 | 2 | 2 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 21st | |
Top 3 | 0 | 2 | 19th | 11 | 22nd | 15th | 1 | 9 | 10 | 3 | 1 | 1 | 2 | 96 | |
Top 10 | 0 | 5 | 22nd | 18th | 25th | 19th | 3 | 19th | 21st | 13 | 8th | 5 | 4th | 162 | |
Points Ø per start | 9.67 | 31.58 | 73.26 | 46.68 | 66.67 | 70.35 | 37.0 | 42.17 | 47.96 | August 34 | 20.55 | 17.87 | 19.06 | 43.98 | |
Failures | 1 | 2 | 1 | 4th | 3 | 2 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 2 | 3 | 1 | 1 | 21st | |
Points departure | - | 0 | 479 | 360 | 800 | 576 | 85 | 537 | 451 | 305 | 189 | 168 | 112 | 4062 | |
Points super-G | 24 | 230 | 400 | 516 | 540 | 420 | 100 | 580 | 453 | 282 | 177 | 192 | 231 | 4145 | |
Points giant slalom | 5 | 149 | 620 | 371 | 520 | 622 | 0 | 110 | 362 | 223 | 86 | 51 | 0 | 3119 | |
Points slalom | - | - | 26th | 0 | 0 | - | - | 0 | - | - | - | - | - | 26th | |
Points combination | - | - | 100 | 60 | 140 | - | - | 38 | 29 | 8th | 0 | 0 | 0 | 375 | |
Points parallel race | - | - | 60 | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | 60 | |
Total points | 29 | 379 | 1685 | 1307 | 2000 | 1618 | 185 | 1265 | 1295 | 818 | 452 | 411 | 343 | 11787 | |
Overall World Cup | 106 | 21st | 1 | 3 | 1 | 1 | - | 45 | 1 | 3 | 6th | 19th | 21st | 26th |
Downhill World Cup
1995/96 | 1996/97 | 1997/98 | 1998/99 | 1999/00 | 2000/01 | 2001/02 | 2002/03 | 2003/04 | 2004/05 | 2005/06 | 2006/07 | 2007/08 | 2008/09 | S / St | |
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Departure | |||||||||||||||
Lake Louise (0-1-0) | - | - | - | - | 2 | 15th | - | 9 | 5 | 4th | 6th | 16 | 17th | 0/8 | |
Beaver Creek (3-1-0) | - | - | 9 | - | 1 | 1 | - | 1 | 9 | 19th | 23 | 11 | 12 | 3/11 | |
Val d' Isère (1-0-0) | - | - | - | 36 | - | 1 | - | - | 26th | 9 | 16 | - | - | 1/6 | |
Val Gardena (0-0-2) | - | - | - | 3 | 3 | - | - | 5 | 37 | 14th | 8th | 23 | 17th | 0/10 | |
Bormio (2-1-0) | - | - | 1 | 1 | 2 | - | - | - | 11 | 13 | 28 | 13 | 27 | 2/10 | |
Chamonix (1-0-0) | - | DNF | - | - | 1 | - | - | 13 | 8th | - | - | 44 | - | 1/5 | |
Wengen (1-1-1) | - | - | 1 | 4th | 2 | - | 22nd | - | 4th | 4th | 9 | 9 | 26th | 1/11 | |
Kitzbuhel (1-0-0) | - | - | - | 8th | 4th | 1 | 6th | 9 | - | 23 | - | 5 | 10 | 1/10 | |
Garmisch-Partenkirchen (2-1-1) | - | - | 3 | - | 1 | DNF | - | 5 | 7th | 1 | 25th | - | - | 2/10 | |
Kvitfjell (2-0-1) | - | - | - | 16 | 3 | 5 | - | 9 | 1 | - | 30th | 17th | 28 | 2/13 | |
Kvitfjell W. | - | - | - | 11 | 4th | 1 | - | - | - | - | - | 18th | 23 | - | |
Garmisch-Partenkirchen K | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | 5 | 2 | - | 29 | - | - | - | |
Åre (1-0-0) | - | - | - | - | - | 1 | - | - | - | 14th | - | - | 15th | 1/3 | |
Beaver Creek V | - | - | 2 | - | - | - | - | 5 | - | - | - | - | - | - | |
Val-d'Isere G. | - | - | - | - | - | 16 | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | |
Val Gardena A | - | - | - | 4th | 6th | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | |
Bormio L | - | - | 4th | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | 23 | - | - | - | |
Wengen II | - | - | 3 | - | - | - | 7th | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | |
Kitzbuhel B. | - | - | - | DNF | - | - | - | 4th | - | - | - | - | - | - | |
Sestriere | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | 18th | - | - | - | - | - | 0/1 | |
St. Anton am Arlberg (1-0-0) | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | 1 | - | - | - | - | - | 1/1 | |
Lenzerheide | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | 4th | - | 5 | - | - | 0/2 | |
Sierra Nevada | - | - | - | 9 | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | 0/1 | |
Departure statistics | |||||||||||||||
1995/96 | 1996/97 | 1997/98 | 1998/99 | 1999/00 | 2000/01 | 2001/02 | 2002/03 | 2003/04 | 2004/05 | 2005/06 | 2006/07 | 2007/08 | 2008/09 | total | |
run | 9 | 11 | 11 | 10 | 11 | 9 | 11 | 12 | 11 | 9 | 11 | 9 | 9 | - | |
Starts | - | 1 | 7th | 10 | 11 | 9 | 3 | 12 | 11 | 9 | 11 | 9 | 9 | 102 | |
Victories | - | 0 | 2 | 1 | 3 | 5 | 0 | 2 | 1 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 15th | |
2nd place | - | 0 | 1 | 0 | 3 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 5 | |
3rd place | - | 0 | 2 | 1 | 2 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 5 | |
Top 3 | - | 0 | 5 | 2 | 8th | 5 | 0 | 2 | 2 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 25th | |
Top 10 | - | 0 | 7th | 6th | 11 | 6th | 2 | 10 | 8th | 4th | 4th | 2 | 1 | 61 | |
Points Ø per start | - | 0.0 | 68.43 | 36.0 | 72.73 | 64.0 | 28.33 | 44.75 | 41.0 | 33.89 | 17.18 | 18.67 | 12.44 | 39.82 | |
Failures | - | 1 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 3 | |
Points departure | - | 0 | 479 | 360 | 800 | 576 | 85 | 537 | 451 | 305 | 189 | 168 | 112 | 4062 | |
Downhill World Cup | - | - | 2 | 6th | 1 | 1 | - | 25th | 3 | 3 | 7th | 18th | 16 | 21st |
W Additional departure 1998/99 and 1999/00 | Replacement race for Wengen 2000/01 | Replacement race for Val-d'Isère 2007/08 | Replacement race for Garmisch-Partenkirchen 2008/09
K Replacement race for Wengen 2003/04 | Replacement race for Kitzbühel 2004/05 and 2006/07
V Additional downhill 1997/98 | Replacement race for Val-d'Isère 2003/04
G Replacement race for Val Gardena 2000/01
A Additional downhill run 1998/99 | Replacement race for Val-d'Isère 1999/00
L Additional downhill 1997/98 | Replacement race for Val-d'Isère 2006/07
II Additional downhill 1997/98 and 2002/2003
B Sprint downhill 1998/99 | Replacement race for Bormio 2003/04
(xxx) Podium placements including additional and replacement races
Super G World Cup
1995/96 | 1996/97 | 1997/98 | 1998/99 | 1999/00 | 2000/01 | 2001/02 | 2002/03 | 2003/04 | 2004/05 | 2005/06 | 2006/07 | 2007/08 | 2008/09 | S / St | |
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Super G | |||||||||||||||
Lake Louise (4-1-0) | - | - | - | - | 1 | 1 | - | 1 | 2 | 21st | 4th | 16 | 1 | 4/8 | |
Beaver Creek (2-2-0) | - | - | 1 | - | 1 | 6th | - | 2 | 8th | 8th | - | 19th | 2 | 2/8 | |
Val Gardena (0-1-1) | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | 3 | 2 | 6th | DSQ | 8th | 9 | 0/6 | |
Kitzbuhel (5-2-0) | - | - | - | - | 1 | 1 | 1 | 2 | 1 | 1 | - | 2 | 12 | 5/8 | |
Garmisch-Partenkirchen (3-2-0) | - | 2 | 1 | - | - | 2 | - | 1 | 8th | 4th | - | - | - | 3/7 | |
Kvitfjell (3-1-1) | 11 | 4th | - | 1 | 2 | 1 | - | 3 | 1 | - | 5 | 11 | - | 3/9 | |
Schladming (3-0-0) | - | - | 1 | 1 | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | 3/3 | |
Schladming II | - | - | 1 | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | |
Garmisch-Partenkirchen II | - | 1 | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | |
Are | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | 4th | - | - | 17th | 0/2 | |
Lenzerheide | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | 9 | - | 12 | - | - | 0/2 | |
Bormio (1-0-0) | - | - | - | - | 1 | - | - | - | - | - | - | 9 | - | 1/2 | |
Aspen (0-1-0) | - | - | - | 2 | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | 0/1 | |
Hinterstoder (0-0-1) | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | 3 | - | - | 0/1 | |
Val d' Isère (1-0-0) | - | - | - | 1 | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | 1/1 | |
Innsbruck (1-0-0) | - | - | - | 1 | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | 1/1 | |
Whistler | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | DNF | - | 0/1 | |
St. Anton am Arlberg (0-0-1) | - | - | - | - | DNF | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | 0/2 | |
St. Anton am Arlberg II | - | - | - | - | 3 | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | |
Vail | - | 19th | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | 0/1 | |
Sestriere (1-0-0) | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | 1 | - | - | - | - | - | 1/1 | |
Sierra Nevada | - | - | - | 7th | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | 0/1 | |
Super-G statistics | |||||||||||||||
1995/96 | 1996/97 | 1997/98 | 1998/99 | 1999/00 | 2000/01 | 2001/02 | 2002/03 | 2003/04 | 2004/05 | 2005/06 | 2006/07 | 2007/08 | 2008/09 | total | |
run | 6th | 6th | 5 | 6th | 7th | 5 | 6th | 7th | 7th | 6th | 5 | 7th | 5 | - | |
Starts | 1 | 4th | 4th | 6th | 7th | 5 | 1 | 7th | 7th | 6th | 5 | 7th | 5 | 65 | |
Victories | 0 | 1 | 4th | 4th | 4th | 3 | 1 | 3 | 2 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 24 | |
2nd place | 0 | 1 | 0 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 0 | 2 | 2 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 1 | 10 | |
3rd place | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 2 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 4th | |
Top 3 | 0 | 2 | 4th | 5 | 6th | 4th | 1 | 7th | 4th | 1 | 1 | 1 | 2 | 38 | |
Top 10 | 0 | 3 | 4th | 6th | 6th | 5 | 1 | 7th | 7th | 5 | 3 | 3 | 3 | 53 | |
Points Ø per start | 24.0 | 57.5 | 100.0 | 86.0 | 77.14 | 84.0 | 100.0 | 82.86 | 64.71 | 47.0 | 35.4 | 27.43 | 46.2 | 63.77 | |
Failures | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 1 | 0 | 3 | |
Points super-G | 24 | 230 | 400 | 516 | 540 | 420 | 100 | 580 | 453 | 282 | 177 | 192 | 231 | 4145 | |
Super G World Cup | 34 | 4th | 1 | 1 | 1 | 1 | - | 19th | 1 | 2 | 2 | 6th | 10 | 4th |
II Additional Super-G
(xxx) podium placements including additional races
Giant Slalom World Cup
1995/96 | 1996/97 | 1997/98 | 1998/99 | 1999/00 | 2000/01 | 2001/02 | 2002/03 | 2003/04 | 2004/05 | 2005/06 | 2006/07 | 2007/08 | 2008/09 | S / St | |
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Giant slalom | |||||||||||||||
Solden (3-0-0) | - | DNF | - | 1 | - | 1 | - | 16 | 15th | 1 | - | 20th | NQ | 3/8 | |
Beaver Creek (0-1-0) | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | 2 | 8th | 10 | 14th | DNF | 0/5 | |
Park City (1-0-1) | - | 6th | 1 | DNF | - | 3 | - | 7th | - | - | - | - | - | 1/5 | |
Alta Badia (0-1-2) | - | 16 | 3 | 4th | 2 | - | - | 26th | 3 | 6th | 12 | 21st | - | 0/10 | |
Adelboden (3-0-0) | - | - | 1 | 1 | - | 1 | NQ | 8th | 18th | 7th | 15th | - | - | 3/8 | |
Kranjska Gora (0-2-0) | - | 14th | 2 | 20th | DNF | - | - | 12 | 2 | DNF | - | 19th | - | 0/8 | |
Val d' Isère (1-0-1) | - | - | DSQ | - | - | 1 | - | - | 3 | - | - | - | - | 1/4 | |
Tignes (1-0-1) | - | - | 3 | - | 1 | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | 1/2 | |
Saalbach-Hinterglemm (1-1-0) | - | - | 1 | - | 2 | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | 1/2 | |
Vail (1-0-0) | - | 5 | - | - | 1 | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | 1/2 | |
Åre (1-0-0) | - | - | - | - | - | 1 | - | - | - | DNF | - | - | - | 1/2 | |
Shigakogen (1-0-0) | - | 12 | - | - | - | 1 | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | 1/2 | |
Hinterstoder (0-0-1) | 26th | - | - | - | 3 | - | - | - | - | - | 12 | - | - | 0/3 | |
Bormio | - | - | - | - | DNF | 10 | - | - | - | - | - | 17th | - | 0/3 | |
Flachau (0-0-1) | - | - | - | 3 | - | - | - | NQ | 28 | - | - | - | - | 0/3 | |
Yongpyong (0-0-1) | - | - | 3 | - | - | - | - | - | - | 23 | - | - | - | 0/3 | |
Yongpyong II | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | 24 | - | - | - | - | |
Val-d'Isère A | - | - | - | - | - | DSQ | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | |
Alta Badia V | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | DNF | - | - | - | - | - | - | |
Todtnau (1-0-0) | - | - | - | - | 1 | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | 1/1 | |
Lenzerheide | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | 4th | - | DNF | - | - | 0/2 | |
Les Arcs | - | - | - | - | - | 7th | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | 0/1 | |
Breckenridge | - | 22nd | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | 0/1 | |
Crans-Montana (0-0-1) | - | - | 3 | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | 0/1 | |
Often swing | - | - | - | 4th | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | 0/1 | |
Hafjell | DSQ | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | 0/1 | |
Sierra Nevada | - | - | - | DNF | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | 0/1 | |
Giant slalom statistics | |||||||||||||||
1995/96 | 1996/97 | 1997/98 | 1998/99 | 1999/00 | 2000/01 | 2001/02 | 2002/03 | 2003/04 | 2004/05 | 2005/06 | 2006/07 | 2007/08 | 2008/09 | total | |
run | 9 | 8th | 9 | 8th | 9 | 9 | 8th | 7th | 8th | 8th | 6th | 8th | 8th | - | |
Starts | 2 | 7th | 9 | 8th | 8th | 9 | 1 | 7th | 8th | 8th | 5 | 5 | 2 | 79 | |
Victories | 0 | 0 | 3 | 2 | 3 | 5 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 14th | |
2nd place | 0 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 2 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 2 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 5 | |
3rd place | 0 | 0 | 4th | 1 | 1 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 2 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 9 | |
Top 3 | 0 | 0 | 8th | 3 | 6th | 6th | 0 | 0 | 4th | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 28 | |
Top 10 | 0 | 2 | 8th | 5 | 6th | 8th | 0 | 2 | 5 | 4th | 1 | 0 | 0 | 41 | |
Points Ø per start | 2.5 | 21.29 | 68.89 | 46.38 | 65.0 | 69.11 | 0.0 | 15.71 | 45.25 | 27.88 | 17.2 | 10.2 | 0.0 | 39.48 | |
Failures | 1 | 1 | 1 | 2 | 2 | 1 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 2 | 1 | 0 | 1 | 13 | |
Points giant slalom | 5 | 149 | 620 | 371 | 520 | 622 | 0 | 110 | 362 | 223 | 86 | 51 | 0 | 3119 | |
Giant Slalom World Cup | 52 | 15th | 1 | 3 | 1 | 1 | - | - | 17th | 4th | 8th | 16 | 30th | - |
II Additional giant slalom Yongpyong 2005/06
A Replacement race for Alta Badia 2000/01
V Replacement race for Val-d'Isère 2003/04
Slalom World Cup
1995/96 | 1996/97 | 1997/98 | 1998/99 | 1999/00 | 2000/01 | 2001/02 | 2002/03 | 2003/04 | 2004/05 | 2005/06 | 2006/07 | 2007/08 | 2008/09 | S / St | |
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slalom | |||||||||||||||
Chamonix | - | - | - | - | NQ | - | - | NQ | - | - | - | - | - | 0/2 | |
Wengen | - | - | - | NQ | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | 0/1 | |
Kitzbühel | - | - | - | DNF | NQ | - | - | NQ | - | - | - | - | - | 0/3 | |
Veysonnaz | - | - | 10 | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | 0/1 | |
Sierra Nevada | - | - | - | 16 | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | 0/1 | |
Slalom statistics | |||||||||||||||
1995/96 | 1996/97 | 1997/98 | 1998/99 | 1999/00 | 2000/01 | 2001/02 | 2002/03 | 2003/04 | 2004/05 | 2005/06 | 2006/07 | 2007/08 | 2008/09 | total | |
run | 9 | 10 | 9 | 9 | 11 | 9 | 9 | 11 | 9 | 10 | 10 | 11 | 10 | - | |
Starts | - | - | 1 | 3 | 2 | - | - | 2 | - | - | - | - | - | 8th | |
Victories | - | - | 0 | 0 | 0 | - | - | 0 | - | - | - | - | - | 0 | |
2nd place | - | - | 0 | 0 | 0 | - | - | 0 | - | - | - | - | - | 0 | |
3rd place | - | - | 0 | 0 | 0 | - | - | 0 | - | - | - | - | - | 0 | |
Top 3 | - | - | 0 | 0 | 0 | - | - | 0 | - | - | - | - | - | 0 | |
Top 10 | - | - | 1 | 0 | 0 | - | - | 0 | - | - | - | - | - | 1 | |
Points Ø per start | - | - | 26.0 | 0.0 | 0.0 | - | - | 0.0 | - | - | - | - | - | 3.25 | |
Failures | - | - | 0 | 1 | 0 | - | - | 0 | - | - | - | - | - | 1 | |
Points slalom | - | - | 26th | 0 | 0 | - | - | 0 | - | - | - | - | - | 26th | |
Slalom World Cup | - | - | 39 | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - |
Combination World Cup
1995/96 | 1996/97 | 1997/98 | 1998/99 | 1999/00 | 2000/01 | 2001/02 | 2002/03 | 2003/04 | 2004/05 | 2005/06 | 2006/07 | 2007/08 | 2008/09 | S / St | |
---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
combination | |||||||||||||||
Beaver Creek | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | DNS | - | 0/1 | |
Val d'Isère | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | DNS | 0/1 | |
Reiteralm | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | DNF | - | - | 0/1 | |
Chamonix (0-1-0) | - | - | - | - | 2 | - | - | 13 | - | - | - | - | - | 0/2 | |
Wengen (0-0-1) | - | - | - | 3 | - | - | - | - | 9 | 23 | - | DNS | DNS | 0/5 | |
Veysonnaz (1-0-0) | - | - | 1 | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | 1/1 | |
Kitzbuhel (0-0-1) | - | - | - | - | 3 | - | - | 14th | - | - | - | - | - | 0/2 | |
Combination statistics | |||||||||||||||
1995/96 | 1996/97 | 1997/98 | 1998/99 | 1999/00 | 2000/01 | 2001/02 | 2002/03 | 2003/04 | 2004/05 | 2005/06 | 2006/07 | 2007/08 | 2008/09 | total | |
run | 2 | 2 | 2 | 2 | 2 | 1 | 2 | 2 | 1 | 4th | 4th | 5 | 4th | - | |
Starts | - | - | 1 | 1 | 2 | - | - | 2 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 2 | 2 | 13 | |
Victories | - | - | 1 | 0 | 0 | - | - | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 | |
2nd place | - | - | 0 | 0 | 1 | - | - | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 | |
3rd place | - | - | 0 | 1 | 1 | - | - | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 2 | |
Top 3 | - | - | 1 | 1 | 2 | - | - | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 4th | |
Top 10 | - | - | 1 | 1 | 2 | - | - | 0 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 5 | |
Points Ø per start | - | - | 100.0 | 60.0 | 70.0 | - | - | 19.0 | 29.0 | 8.0 | 0.0 | 0.0 | 0.0 | 28.85 | |
Failures | - | - | 0 | 0 | 0 | - | - | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 1 | |
Points combination | - | - | 100 | 60 | 140 | - | - | 38 | 29 | 8th | 0 | 0 | 0 | 375 | |
Combination World Cup | - | - | 2 | 6th | 2 | - | - | - | 10 | 9 | 42 | - | - | - |
Parallel races
1995/96 | 1996/97 | 1997/98 | 1998/99 | 1999/00 | 2000/01 | 2001/02 | 2002/03 | 2003/04 | 2004/05 | 2005/06 | 2006/07 | 2007/08 | 2008/09 | S / St | |
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Parallel slalom | |||||||||||||||
Tignes (0-0-1) | - | - | 3 | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | 0/1 | |
Parallel race statistics | |||||||||||||||
1995/96 | 1996/97 | 1997/98 | 1998/99 | 1999/00 | 2000/01 | 2001/02 | 2002/03 | 2003/04 | 2004/05 | 2005/06 | 2006/07 | 2007/08 | 2008/09 | total | |
run | - | - | 1 | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | |
Starts | - | - | 1 | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | 1 | |
Victories | - | - | 0 | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | 0 | |
2nd place | - | - | 0 | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | 0 | |
3rd place | - | - | 1 | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | 1 | |
Top 3 | - | - | 1 | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | 1 | |
Top 10 | - | - | 1 | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | 1 | |
Points Ø per start | - | - | 60.0 | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | 60.0 | |
Points parallel race | - | - | 60 | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | 60 |
Awards
- Great Decoration of Honor for Services to the Republic of Austria : 1998
- Skieur d'Or : 1998 and 2004
- 2nd place in the election for World Sportsman of the Year 1998 behind Zinédine Zidane (chosen by the sports journalists of the international news agency "Reuters")
- Austria's athlete of the year : 1998, 1999, 2000 and 2001
- Austria's Sportsman of the Year - Special Award for the Comeback of the Year: 2003
- Laureus World Sports Award in the “Comeback of the Year” category: 2004
- Ring of the State of Salzburg : 2006
- Austria's Sportsman of the Year - Special Award for Maier's career: 2009
Private
Hermann Maier grew up in Flachau and still lives in his hometown. His brother is the former snowboarder Alexander Maier , his grandcousin the former ski racer and Olympic champion Andrea Fischbacher . He and his wife Carina are parents of three children. The first two girls are twins and were born in 2013. The third girl was born in 2015.
literature
- Hermann Maier, Michael Smejkal: I go my way. The only authorized biography of the Olympic champion . Deuticke Verlag, Vienna 2000, ISBN 978-3-216-30410-0 .
Web links
- Website by Hermann Maier
- Hermann Maier in the database of the International Ski Association (English)
- Hermann Maier in the database of Ski-DB (English)
- Literature by and about Hermann Maier in the catalog of the German National Library
- The famous fall at the 1998 Olympics in Nagano
- Entry on Hermann Maier in the Austria forum
Individual evidence
- ↑ MAIER Hermann - Athlete information. Retrieved May 13, 2019 .
- ↑ Three seconds for eternity. Retrieved May 13, 2019 .
- ↑ Maier receives compensation , Vorarlberg online. Link checked November 12, 2009
- ↑ Maier gives up his “dream job” ( page no longer available , search in web archives ) Info: The link was automatically marked as defective. Please check the link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. , Salzburger Nachrichten, October 13, 2009
- ↑ Neo-Hoteliers - Maier and Schönfelder opened their hotel
- ^ Instead of victories, a scandal - Hermann Maier braked , Die Welt , December 18, 2000
- ↑ List of all decorations awarded by the Federal President for services to the Republic of Austria from 1952 (PDF; 6.9 MB)
- ↑ Parliamentary correspondence of the Austrian Parliament on the 15th sports report of October 1, 1999 , accessed on November 11, 2009
- ^ State awards until 2008 , accessed on September 13, 2011
- ^ Hermann Maier ( Memento from May 14, 2010 in the Internet Archive ), 2007
- ↑ «It's crazy - I get goose bumps»; Kärntner Tageszeitung from November 4, 2000, pages 50 and 51
- ↑ Hermann Maier was the father of twins. Salzburger Nachrichten, September 2, 2013, accessed on September 23, 2013 .
personal data | |
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SURNAME | Maier, Hermann |
BRIEF DESCRIPTION | Austrian ski racer, Olympic champion |
DATE OF BIRTH | 7th December 1972 |
PLACE OF BIRTH | Altenmarkt im Pongau , Salzburg, Austria |