Hermann Maier

This article deals with the ski racer Hermann Maier . For the industrial builder see Hermann Maier-Leibnitz ; for other people see Hermann Mayer .

Hermann Maier
Hermann Maier in December 2006
nation	Austria
birthday	7th December 1972 (age 47)
place of birth	Altenmarkt im Pongau , Austria
size	181 cm
Weight	86 kg
Career
discipline	Downhill , Super-G , giant slalom , slalom , combination
society	USC Flachau
status	resigned
End of career	October 13, 2009
Medal table
Olympic games 2 × 1 × 1 × World championships 3 × 2 × 1 ×
winter Olympics gold Nagano 1998 Super G gold Nagano 1998 Giant slalom silver Turin 2006 Super G bronze Turin 2006 Giant slalom  Alpine World Ski Championships gold Vail / Beaver Creek 1999 Super G gold Vail / Beaver Creek 1999 Departure silver St. Anton 2001 Departure bronze St. Anton 2001 Super G silver St. Moritz 2003 Super G gold Bormio 2005 Giant slalom
Placements in the Alpine Ski World Cup
Individual World Cup debut February 10, 1996  Individual world cup victories 54  Overall World Cup 1. ( 1997/98 , 1999/00 , 2000/01 , 2003/04 )  Downhill World Cup 1. (1999/00, 2000/01)  Super G World Cup 1. (1997/98, 1998/99 , 1999/00, 2000/01, 2003/04)  Giant Slalom World Cup 1. (1997/98, 1999/00, 2000/01)  Slalom World Cup 39th (1997/98)  Combination World Cup 2. (1997/98, 1999/00)
Podium placements 1. 2. 3.  Departure 15th 5 5  Super G 24 10 4th  Giant slalom 14th 5 9  combination 1 1 2  Parallel races 0 0 1

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)

Advertisement for the Hermann Maier fan shop in Flachau

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
	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):

Departure date place country December 29, 1997 Bormio Italy January 16, 1998 Wengen Switzerland December 29, 1998 Bormio Italy November 27, 1999 Beaver Creek United States January 8, 2000 Chamonix France January 29, 2000 Garmisch-Partenkirchen Germany December 2, 2000 Beaver Creek United States December 9, 2000 Val d'Isère France January 20, 2001 Kitzbühel Austria March 2, 2001 Kvitfjell Norway March 8, 2001 Are Sweden December 6, 2003 Beaver Creek United States February 14, 2004 St. Anton am Arlberg Austria March 5, 2005 Kvitfjell Norway January 28, 2006 Garmisch-Partenkirchen Germany Giant slalom date place country November 25, 1997 Park City United States January 6, 1998 Saalbach-Hinterglemm Austria January 13, 1998 Adelboden Switzerland October 25, 1998 Soelden Austria January 12, 1999 Adelboden Switzerland October 31, 1999 Tignes France November 24, 1999 Vail United States February 5, 2000 Todtnau Germany October 29, 2000 Soelden Austria December 10, 2000 Val d'Isère France January 9, 2001 Adelboden Switzerland February 15, 2001 Shigakogen Japan March 10, 2001 Are Sweden October 23, 2005 Soelden Austria

Super G date place country February 23, 1997 Garmisch-Partenkirchen Germany December 6, 1997 Beaver Creek United States January 10, 1998 Schladming Austria January 11, 1998 Schladming Austria February 1, 1998 Garmisch-Partenkirchen Germany December 13, 1998 Val d'Isère France December 21, 1998 innsbruck Austria January 9, 1999 Schladming Austria March 7, 1999 Kvitfjell Norway November 28, 1999 Beaver Creek United States 5th December 1999 Lake Louise Canada January 21, 2000 Kitzbühel Austria March 16, 2000 Bormio Italy November 26, 2000 Lake Louise Canada January 19, 2001 Kitzbühel Austria March 4, 2001 Kvitfjell Norway January 27, 2003 Kitzbühel Austria November 30, 2003 Lake Louise Canada February 1, 2004 Garmisch-Partenkirchen Germany March 11, 2004 Sestriere Italy January 24, 2005 Kitzbühel Austria March 6, 2005 Kvitfjell Norway January 20, 2006 Kitzbühel Austria November 30, 2008 Lake Louise Canada combination date place country January 18, 1998 Wengen / Veysonnaz Switzerland

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
winter Olympics
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
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
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
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
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
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
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

Commons : Hermann Maier  - collection of images, videos and audio files

• 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

1. ↑ MAIER Hermann - Athlete information. Retrieved May 13, 2019 . 
2. ↑ Three seconds for eternity. Retrieved May 13, 2019 . 
3. ↑ Maier receives compensation , Vorarlberg online. Link checked November 12, 2009
4. ↑ 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  
5. ↑ Neo-Hoteliers - Maier and Schönfelder opened their hotel
6. ^ Instead of victories, a scandal - Hermann Maier braked , Die Welt , December 18, 2000
7. ↑ List of all decorations awarded by the Federal President for services to the Republic of Austria from 1952 (PDF; 6.9 MB)
8. ↑ Parliamentary correspondence of the Austrian Parliament on the 15th sports report of October 1, 1999 , accessed on November 11, 2009
9. ^ State awards until 2008 , accessed on September 13, 2011
10. ^ Hermann Maier ( Memento from May 14, 2010 in the Internet Archive ), 2007
11. ↑ «It's crazy - I get goose bumps»; Kärntner Tageszeitung from November 4, 2000, pages 50 and 51
12. ↑ Hermann Maier was the father of twins. Salzburger Nachrichten, September 2, 2013, accessed on September 23, 2013 .