Marco Büchel (ski racer)

Marco Büchel
nation	Liechtenstein
birthday	4th November 1971 (age 48)
place of birth	Walenstadt ,  Switzerland
size	186 cm
Career
discipline	Downhill , Super-G , giant slalom , combination
society	SC Balzers
status	resigned
End of career	March 11, 2010
Medal table
World championships 0 × 1 × 0 ×
Alpine World Ski Championships silver Vail / Beaver Creek 1999 Giant slalom
Placements in the Alpine Ski World Cup
Individual World Cup debut January 1991  Individual world cup victories 4th  Overall World Cup 7th ( 2006/07 )  Downhill World Cup 2. (2006/07)  Super G World Cup 2. ( 2002/03 )  Giant Slalom World Cup 6. ( 1999/2000 , 2000/01 )  Combination World Cup 14. (1999/2000, 2002/03)
Podium placements 1. 2. 3.  Departure 2 3 3  Super G 2 1 2  Giant slalom 0 2 3

Marco Büchel (born November 4, 1971 in Walenstadt ) is a former Liechtenstein ski racer .

biography

Büchel contested his first race in the World Cup in January 1991 . It took six years before he was able to place in the top ten of a race for the first time. In the years that followed, his performance became more consistent and he took second and third places several times.

At the 1999 Alpine World Ski Championships in Vail - Beaver Creek , he was runner- up in the giant slalom behind Norwegian Lasse Kjus , and was still leading after the first run. Although he finished third in the giant slalom in Park City in November 1998 , winning the medal came as a surprise. He won four world cup races. In the 2002/03 season , Büchel reached second place in the Super G World Cup. In 2006/07 he finished second in the Downhill World Cup and achieved his best result in the overall World Cup in seventh.

Büchel took part in the Winter Olympics six times. His best placings he reached in 2006 in Turin , when he drove in the super-G in sixth place and in the downhill in seventh place. On November 25, 2006, he replaced Stephan Eberharter as the oldest winner of a World Cup race to date with his victory in the descent in Lake Louise . After his victory in Kitzbühel on January 18, 2008 , the record was 36 years and 75 days. This record lasted until January 22, 2011, when Didier Cuche won the downhill in Kitzbühel.

On March 11, 2010 Büchel drove his last World Cup race. Since the 2010/2011 season he has been working as a racing analyst at ZDF . At the 2014 Winter Olympics in Sochi , he analyzed the alpine skiing competitions in collaboration with presenter Norbert König . He also works as a radio and television presenter beyond actual sports broadcasts.

Büchel, who grew up in Balzers , was elected Liechtenstein Sportsman of the Year eight times . He lives with his wife Doris in Triesenberg and is an athlete ambassador for the development aid organization Right to Play . In addition to Liechtenstein, he also has Swiss citizenship .

successes

Olympic games

• Albertville 1992 : 36th Super-G
• Lillehammer 1994 : 32nd Super-G, 40th Downhill
• Nagano 1998 : 14th giant slalom
• Salt Lake City 2002 : 13th Super-G, 17th giant slalom, 29th downhill
• Turin 2006 : 6th Super-G, 7th Downhill
• Vancouver 2010 : 8th departure

World championships

• Sierra Nevada 1996 : 18th giant slalom
• Sestriere 1997 : 16th giant slalom
• Vail / Beaver Creek 1999 : 2nd giant slalom
• St. Anton 2001 : 9th giant slalom
• St. Moritz 2003 : 11th Super-G, 18th descent, 19th giant slalom
• Bormio 2005 : 5th Super-G, 25th descent
• Åre 2007 : 10th Super-G, 10th giant slalom
• Val-d'Isère 2009 : 7th Super-G, 4th downhill

Junior World Championships

• Zinal 1990 : 35th giant slalom

World Cup ratings

season	total		Departure		Super G		Giant slalom		combination
	space	Points	space	Points	space	Points	space	Points	space	Points
1996/97	110.	16	-	-	-	-	39.	16	-	-
1997/98	39.	220	-	-	-	-	10.	220	-	-
1998/99	34.	218	-	-	-	-	9.	218	-	-
1999/00	21st	456	51.	9	14th	125	6th	290	14th	32
2000/01	14th	447	46.	24	11.	118	6th	305	-	-
2001/02	66.	80	-	-	22nd	59	36.	21st	-	-
2002/03	23.	404	27.	74	2.	280	45.	21st	14th	29
2003/04	46.	175	25th	83	21st	82	47.	10	-	-
2004/05	11.	516	10.	237	8th.	198	22nd	70	20th	11
2005/06	10.	626	4th	400	17th	115	19th	111	-	-
2006/07	7th	635	2.	471	8th.	146	35.	18th	-	-
2007/08	19th	451	10.	218	7th	230	58.	3	-	-
2008/09	31.	268	14th	196	17th	72	-	-	-	-
2009/10	26th	261	9.	202	24.	59	-	-	-	-

World Cup victories

date	place	country	discipline
February 23, 2003	Garmisch-Partenkirchen	Germany	Super G
December 17, 2005	Val Gardena	Italy	Departure
November 25, 2006	Lake Louise	Canada	Departure
January 18, 2008	Kitzbühel	Austria	Super G

European Cup

• 6 podium places, including 4 wins

Nor-Am Cup

• 1 podium

Far East Cup

• 4 podium places, including 1 victory

FIS races

• 19 podium places, including 8 wins

Other sports

Marco Büchel is an occasional BASE jumper .

literature

• Marco Büchel: Ski racer Marco Büchel / passionate about life athlete . Zürcher Druck + Verlag, Rotkreuz 2007, ISBN 978-3-909287-36-9 .

Web links

Commons : Marco Büchel  - Collection of images, videos and audio files

• Marco Büchel's website
• Marco Büchel in the database of the International Ski Federation (English)
• Marco Büchel in the database of Ski-DB (English)
• Marco Büchel in the Sports-Reference database (English; archived from the original )
• HLFL editor: Büchel, Marco. In: Historical Lexicon of the Principality of Liechtenstein .

Individual evidence

1. ↑ Alpin veteran Büchel says goodbye in a suit , Stimme.de, March 11, 2010
2. ↑ Büxi for ZDF Sportfernsehen: ARD and ZDF celebrate a record in Sochi
3. ↑ Basejumper - adrenaline junkies without rules . Sportlounge, SFDRS, October 26, 2009.