Markus Schairer

Markus Schairer
nation	Austria
birthday	4th July 1987 (age 33)
place of birth	Bludenz , Vorarlberg
job	Executive officer
Career
discipline	Snowboard cross
society	Austrian Ski Association
status	resigned
End of career	28th September 2018
Medal table
World championships 1 × 1 × 0 ×
Snowboard world championships gold 2009 Gangwon Snowboard cross silver 2013 Stoneham Snowboard cross
Placements
World cup
Debut in the World Cup October 17, 2004  World Cup victories 4th  Overall World Cup 2. ( 2008/09 )  Parallel World Cup 51st ( 2006/07 )  Snowboard cross world cup 1. (2008/09)
Podium placements 1. 2. 3.  Snowboard cross 4th 6th 2

Markus Schairer (born July 4, 1987 in Bludenz ) is a former Austrian snowboarder . He is the overall world cup winner of the 2008/09 season , world champion in snowboard cross 2009 and a three-time Olympic athlete ( 2010 , 2014 , 2018 ).

Career

Markus Schairer attended the Stams ski school . He has been driving for the ÖSV since 2004 and in the same year he started his first World Cup race in Sölden. He is an executive officer of the police and has been training and starting for the Austrian snowboard team since completing his military service in June 2007. At the Snowboard World Championship 2007 Schairer reached seventh place in snowboard cross (SBX).

In February 2008, he tore a cruciate ligament in his left knee at the World Cup in Leysin , Switzerland .

World Champion Snowboard Cross 2009

At the Snowboard World Championships 2009 in Sungwoo, South Korea, Markus Schairer was able to achieve first place for Austria on the first day of snowboard cross .

Markus Schairer, Ludovic Guillot-Diat and Rok Rogelj (Bad Gastein, 2010)

Markus Schairer dressing the Austrian team for the 2018 Winter Olympics

2010 Winter Olympics

At the end of January 2010 he suffered several broken ribs after falling at the Winter X Games in Aspen ; so his start at the Olympic Games was seriously questioned. He was able to start in Vancouver and despite a fall in a qualifying race, he still made it into the finals. There he met two team-mates, was eliminated in the round of 16 and finished in 23rd place.

In March 2012 he won his third national title in snowboard cross in Saalbach-Hinterglemm .

In August 2012 he finished fourth in the team classification at the Trans Vorarlberg Triathlon together with Nicola Thost and Tobias Jenny.

Vice World Champion Snowboard Cross 2013

At the World Championships in January 2013 in the Canadian ski resort of Stoneham in the province of Québec , he came second. In December 2013, he injured his shoulder while training in Canada.

2014 Winter Olympics

Together with the other three Vorarlbergers Susanne Moll , Lukas Mathies and Alessandro Hämmerle , he started at the Winter Olympics in Sochi in February 2014 , where he was eliminated in the quarter-finals after a fall. In April 2014 he was voted Vorarlberg “Sportsman of the Year” for the second time after 2009.

At the World Championships in snowboard cross in January 2015 , he retired due to injury after falling in the finish area during the qualification runs on Kreischberg .

In March 2017, Schairer won the snowboard cross team competition in Veysonnaz in the last race of the season with Alessandro Hämmerle in the World Cup . In December 2017 he took third place in the snowboard cross at his "home race" in Schruns .

Olympic Winter Games 2018

Schairer took part in the 2018 Winter Olympics in Pyeongchang , South Korea , as a member of the Austrian team . In the snowboard cross competition , he broke his fifth cervical vertebra in a serious fall . Consequential damage could be ruled out, but the injury made itself felt in the build-up of training for the following season, whereupon the 31-year-old announced his retirement from active racing on September 28, 2018.

Private

Markus Schairer lived in St. Gallenkirch until 2013 and since then in Schruns in the Montafon. He has been the father of a daughter since July 2017.

Sporting successes

Olympic games

	discipline	space
Sochi 2014	Boardercross	33.
Vancouver 2010	Boardercross	23.

Awards

• 2009: Decoration of Honor in Gold for Services to the Republic of Austria

Web links

Commons : Markus Schairer  - Collection of images, videos and audio files

• Markus Schairer in the database of the International Ski Federation (English)
• Markus Schairer in the Sports-Reference database (English; archived from the original )

Individual evidence

1. ↑ Torn cruciate ligament stops Schairer
2. ↑ Snowboard World Cup: Gold for Schairer in the cross competition
3. ↑ World Champion Schairer suffers broken ribs
4. ↑ Markus Schairer in an interview
5. ↑ Boardercrossers also get empty  ( 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.  
6. ↑ Cross state championship title to Schairer and Ramberger (March 4, 2012)
7. ↑ Markus Schairer suffered shoulder injuries in a fall in Canada (December 21, 2013)
8. ↑ Schairer and Meusburger "Sportsman of the Year" (April 3, 2014)
9. ↑ World Cup out for Schairer due to ankle injury (January 16, 2015)
10. ↑ Snowboard: Hämmerle / Schairer won cross team competition (March 27, 2017)
11. ↑ Hämmerle and Schairer at Snowboard Cross in the Montafon on the Stockerl (December 16, 2017)
12. ↑ sport.orf.at: Schairer seriously injured in a fall ( memento of the original from February 16, 2018 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. 
13. ↑ Schairer ends career after falling. ORF , September 28, 2018, accessed on September 28, 2018 . 
14. ↑ Reception Markus Schairer St. Gallenkirch February 3, 2013
15. ↑ fracture of the vertebra! This is how Schairer feels after his horror fall (February 16, 2018)
16. ↑ Schairer's "homerun" for the World Cup victory