Larsson celebrated his first international success in 1994 at the Trofeo Topolino . At the Junior World Championships in Schladming in 1997 , he won the gold medal in the combined ranking as well as the bronze medal in the Super-G and in the giant slalom. He contested his first World Cup race in November 1999; in 2000 he became the Swedish slalom champion . In November 2000, he was 24th in the Park City slalom and won World Cup points for the first time.
Larsson had a first career highlight in the 2001/2002 season with two places in the top ten. At the 2002 Winter Olympics in Salt Lake City , he reached seventh place in slalom. During the 2002/2003 season he could hardly achieve a good result in the World Cup , but at the 2003 World Cup in St. Moritz he surprisingly came in sixth in the combined and tenth in the slalom .
The next two seasons were rather mixed and Larsson didn't seem able to improve. But then he was on the podium for the first time on January 9, 2005 with third place in the World Cup slalom in Chamonix . At the 2005 World Championships in Bormio , he just missed the medal ranks as fourth in the slalom; at the 2006 Winter Olympics in Turin he was eleventh in the combination, but retired in the slalom. At the 2007 World Cup in Åre , he won the silver medal in the team competition with the Swedish team . In the slalom as well as in the super combination he was eliminated.
After a total of more than a dozen top 10 results, Markus Larsson won a World Cup race for the first time on March 18, 2006, the last slalom of the 2005/06 season in Åre . In December 2006 he was able to win his second World Cup race, the slalom on the Gran Risa in Alta Badia . Thereafter, Larsson has not yet reached any further podium places, but numerous top 10 placements, in addition to the slalom from December 2007 to December 2009 he also achieved three top 10 results in each of the giant slalom and super combination disciplines. The Swede was unable to take part in the 2009 World Cup. He had a bad fall during downhill training on the Lauberhorn in January and had to end the 2008/2009 season prematurely. At the 2010 Winter Olympics in Vancouver , his best result was 16th in the super combined.
Since January 2011 Larsson has only started in slalom. In March 2012 he achieved his best World Cup result in over three years with fifth place in Kranjska Gora . With the Swedish team, he won a team competition that was only part of the Nations Cup on February 25, 2014 in Innsbruck . In early 2016, Larsson announced his resignation.
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Markus Larsson at the World Cup Slalom in Zagreb 2015
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