Markus Wasmeier
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birthday | 9th September 1963 (age 56) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||
place of birth | Schliersee , Germany | ||||||||||||||||||||||||
size | 181 cm | ||||||||||||||||||||||||
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Downhill , Super-G , giant slalom , slalom , combination |
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society | SC Schliersee | ||||||||||||||||||||||||
status | resigned | ||||||||||||||||||||||||
End of career | March 19, 1994 | ||||||||||||||||||||||||
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Markus Wasmeier (born September 9, 1963 in Schliersee ) is a former German ski racer . He drove races in all disciplines, with his strengths being in the downhill and especially in the super-G . But he celebrated his greatest successes in the giant slalom ; in this discipline he did not win a single world cup race, but became world champion in 1985 and Olympic champion in 1994 . Another Olympic gold medal was also added in the Super-G in 1994 and a World Cup bronze medal in 1987. In the World Cup , he won nine races and the Super G discipline classification in the 1985/86 season .
biography
Skiing
Wasmeier, son of a Lüftlmaler and restorer , stood on skis for the first time as a two-year-old and won his first student race at the age of five. In 1977 he won the German student championship in giant slalom and was accepted into the C national team. After completing the compulsory schooling, Wasmeier completed an apprenticeship as a painter and varnisher. Then (1982) he signed up for the German Armed Forces until 1994 in order to benefit from the good training opportunities as a sports soldier . Most recently he served as a sergeant major in Berchtesgaden .
Wasmeier's first appearance in the World Cup was on February 5, 1983; he finished the descent in St. Anton in 49th place. He took his first World Cup points in 1984 in Oppdal (Norway) in the Super-G with a 5th place. On December 11, 1984 drove to the second podium for the first time in the giant slalom in Sestriere . The 1985 World Cup in Bormio was a first career highlight . Without having previously won a World Cup race, Wasmeier caused a surprise when he won the gold medal in the giant slalom and beat the favorite Pirmin Zurbriggen by five hundredths of a second.
In the following 1985/86 season Wasmeier regularly scored in all disciplines. Behind Ivano Edalini , he finished second in the parallel slalom on January 6, 1986 in Vienna , Hohe-Wand-Wiese . On February 9, 1986, he won his first World Cup race, the Super-G in Morzine . He finished third in the overall ranking of the World Cup, and also won the newly introduced Super G discipline ranking and also won the combination that was awarded in this form for the last time this year. Since 2005, the combination in the form of the Super Combination in the World Cup has been an independent competition. Wasmeier also proved to be a consistent top runner in the 1986/87 season. Among other things, he won the prestigious Lauberhorn run in Wengen . At the 1987 World Cup , he was third in his favorite Super-G discipline. The season ended prematurely for him on February 28th when he had a bad fall on the World Cup downhill in Furano and broke two vertebrae .
In December 1987 and January 1988 Wasmeier was able to win again in the Super-G and was one of the favorites in this discipline before the 1988 Winter Olympics . But at the Olympic race in Nakiska near Calgary he was eliminated with the first goal; in the downhill it was enough to place 6. He also did not win a medal at the World Cup in Vail in 1989 , where he was fifth in the Super-G and in the combination. The 1988/89 season he was among the top 15 in his three disciplines. At the beginning of the 1989/90 season he was only able to place in the points in one race, the start of the 1990/91 season was not particularly good (transfer to the European Cup), but he was still nominated for the 1991 World Championship . Completely contrary to the previous season, he surprisingly won the last Super-G of the winter in Lake Louise .
In the 1991/92 season Wasmeier regularly placed among the top ten, and on the downhill run in Garmisch-Partenkirchen he celebrated the last World Cup victory of his career. As fourth of the departure of the 1992 Winter Olympics , he narrowly missed a medal. A week before the start of the 1992/93 World Cup season, Wasmeier collided with a service man and suffered a broken ankle , a hip detached and a concussion . Only a month later he started racing again and achieved several top ten placements.
In the 1993/94 season Wasmeier achieved placements between 5 and 15. Before the 1994 Winter Olympics in Lillehammer , he was therefore not counted among the favorites. The disappointing 36th place in the downhill seemed to confirm this assessment. But then Wasmeier won the Super-G and the giant slalom completely unexpectedly, with both wins by a few hundredths of a second. After 58 years, he was the first German ski racer to become Olympic champion ( Franz Pfnür won the combination in 1936 ). He let the World Cup season end with placings between 5th and 12th place and then announced his resignation.
Other activities and honors
Wasmeier was voted German athlete of the year 1994 in December 1994 as the first male ski racer ever . He is the bearer of the silver bay leaf .
From winter 1994/95 he worked as a ski expert for ARD . In this role, he analyzed races at the Olympic Games, World Championships and the World Cup, and he was the first to present the Super-G and Downhill courses to spectators with handheld camera drives. Because he had advertised the computer game Winter Games 2007 from RTL and thus allegedly violated the guidelines of the ARD, the public television broadcaster interrupted the cooperation in January 2007; However, Wasmeier returned as an expert the following season after clarification. In 2014 he ended this activity.
In 1994 Wasmeier played a supporting role in the ski film White Magic by Willy Bogner junior . Together with him, he also designed a clothing line that was launched in 1995. He played himself in some episodes of the television series Ein Bayer auf Rügen in 1995, as well as in an episode of the television series Forsthaus Falkenau in 2004. From November 2000 to 2002 Wasmeier was a member of the sports committee of the German Ski Association .
On May 1, 2007 Wasmeier opened the Markus Wasmeier Farm and Winter Sports Museum . With the help of donations, he has now personally dismantled and rebuilt 22 historic buildings that were threatened with decay in order to preserve the cultural heritage of his homeland. There are now six farmhouses and an alpine pasture. Wasmeier has been the director of the game show Eternal Heroes since 2017 .
Wasmeier is an honorary citizen of his home town Schliersee and of Bansko (Bulgaria).
Markus Wasmeier volunteers as an ambassador for the Child Health Foundation . He is also Bavaria's first forest ambassador.
Private
Wasmeier has been married since 1991. He has three sons with his wife Brigitte from South Tyrol , whom he met in Daglfing at a celebrity trotting race. The family lives in Schliersee in Upper Bavaria. He cultivates Bavarian folk music and plays the zither and lap violin .
successes
Olympic games
- Calgary 1988 : 6th downhill, 7th combination, 19th giant slalom
- Albertville 1992 : 4th Downhill, 5th Combination, 9th Super-G
- Lillehammer 1994 : 1st Super-G, 1st giant slalom, 36th downhill
World championships
- Bormio 1985 : 1st giant slalom, 7th combination
- Crans-Montana 1987 : 3rd Super-G, 5th combination, 9th descent, 13th giant slalom
- Vail 1989 : 5th super-G, 5th combination, 13th giant slalom
- Saalbach-Hinterglemm 1991 : 13th Super-G
- Morioka 1993 : 9th giant slalom, 35th downhill
World Cup ratings
Markus Wasmeier won the discipline classification twice, in the Super-G and in the combination.
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 | |
1983/84 | 61. | 17th | - | - | - | - | 27. | 11 | - | - | 31. | 6th |
1984/85 | 10. | 101 | 19th | 17th | - | - | 9. | 52 | - | - | 5. | 32 |
1985/86 | 3. | 214 | 14th | 41 | 1. | 105 | 8th. | 34 | 41. | 9 | 1. | 60 |
1986/87 | 3. | 174 | 3. | 83 | 3. | 50 | 6th | 59 | 44. | 1 | - | - |
1987/88 | 6th | 138 | 14th | 37 | 2. | 57 | 15th | 24 | - | - | 4th | 20th |
1988/89 | 5. | 166 | 9. | 67 | 6th | 43 | 21st | 9 | - | - | 2. | 47 |
1989/90 | 20th | 91 | 17th | 20th | 9. | 35 | 29 | 9 | - | - | 3. | 27 |
1990/91 | 40. | 30th | - | - | 3. | 25th | - | - | - | - | 11. | 5 |
1991/92 | 7th | 752 | 6th | 371 | 9. | 156 | 23. | 84 | - | - | 3. | 141 |
1992/93 | 14th | 400 | 17th | 171 | 13. | 135 | 35. | 21st | 44. | 18th | 13. | 55 |
1993/94 | 25th | 342 | 38. | 44 | 10. | 141 | 17th | 133 | - | - | 15th | 24 |
World Cup victories
Wasmeier achieved a total of 31 podium places, of which 9 wins:
date | place | country | discipline |
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February 9, 1986 | Morzine | France | combination |
February 9, 1986 | Morzine | France | Super G |
March 16, 1986 | Whistler | Canada | Super G |
December 6, 1986 | Val d'Isère | France | Super G |
January 11, 1987 | Garmisch-Partenkirchen | Germany | Super G |
17th January 1987 | Wengen | Switzerland | Departure |
January 10, 1988 | Val d'Isère | France | Super G |
March 17, 1991 | Lake Louise | Canada | Super G |
January 11, 1992 | Garmisch-Partenkirchen | Germany | Departure |
More Achievements
- 8 German championship titles
- 2 × departure: 1986, 1987
- 4 × Super-G: 1986, 1987, 1988, 1989
- 2 × giant slalom: 1986, 1987
Works
- 2000: Olympic Winter Games Nagano 1998, editor Markus Wasmeier, Chronik Verlag, ISBN 978-3577-145527
- 2006: Fit on the slopes with Markus Wasmeier: Ski gymnastics for every terrain, DVD, BLV, ISBN 978-3835401532
- 2017: Dahoam: Between Schliersee and Tokyo, Ankerherz Verlag, ISBN 978-3940138620
Honors
- 1985: Silver bay leaf
- 1987: Honorary award from the Bavarian Prime Minister Franz Josef Strauss
- 1994: Honorary award from the Bavarian Prime Minister Edmund Stoiber
- 1994: Sportsman of the Year (Germany) Alpine skiing
- 1997: Gold Cross of Honor of the Bundeswehr
- 2007: Bavarian Sports Prize (high-performance athlete plus)
- 2007: Bavarian Order of Merit
- 2007: Medal of the Bavarian Monument Protection
- 2011: Bavarian poet thaler from the Munich tower scribe
- 2015: Honorary Filser
- 2018: 35th bearer of the Swabian Riegele beer chain
- 2018: Bavarian Century Sports Prize as an ambassador for Bavarian winter sports
- 2019: Bavarian Beer Order of the Private Breweries Bavaria
Web links
- Website of Markus Wasmeier and his museum
- Markus Wasmeier , Internationales Sportarchiv 03/2010 from January 19, 2010, in the Munzinger archive ( beginning of article freely accessible)
- Markus Wasmeier in the database of the International Ski Association (English)
- Markus Wasmeier in the database of Ski-DB (English)
- Markus Wasmeier in the Sports-Reference database (English; archived from the original )
- Literature by and about Markus Wasmeier in the catalog of the German National Library
- Markus which Meier in the Internet Movie Database (English)
Individual evidence
- ^ Alfred Nimmerrichter: High voltage in Mauerbach . In: Arbeiter-Zeitung . Vienna 7th January 1986, p. 11 ( berufer-zeitung.at - the open online archive - digitized).
- ↑ Winner Müller had the baby route under control. Arbeiter-Zeitung , March 2, 1987, p. 24 , accessed March 8, 2016 .
- ^ "Wasmeier now in the European Cup" in "Salzburger Nachrichten" of December 18, 1990; Page 21; POS .: middle
- ^ ARD expert Markus Wasmeier. In: olympia.ard.de - Olympic Winter Games Vancouver 2010. ARD, January 7, 2010, archived from the original on January 15, 2010 ; Retrieved November 17, 2012 .
- ^ ARD separates from ski expert Markus Wasmeier , Die Welt , January 11, 2007
- ^ ARD: Markus Wasmeier remains a ski expert. In: Focus Online . FOCUS Magazin Verlag GmbH, January 12, 2007, accessed on February 23, 2010 .
- ↑ Olympic ski champion Wasmeier quits as TV expert for ARD Die Welt online, September 11, 2014, accessed on September 12, 2014.
- ↑ Wasmeier, Bittner and Co. as "Council of the Wise" ( 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. , Rheinische Post , November 21, 2000, accessed on November 17, 2012.
- ↑ Manfred Hummel: The ski star as museum director ( Memento of the original from February 1, 2009 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. , Süddeutsche Zeitung , April 30, 2007.
- ↑ merkur.de: Markus Wasmeier promises: “That will be highly emotional” , February 14, 2017, accessed on February 21, 2017.
- ↑ Bavarian Order of Merit ( Memento of the original from August 1, 2014 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. (PDF; 41 kB), Bavarian State Chancellery, 2007.
- ^ Bavarian Sports Prize to Wasmeier, Neureuther and Al-Sultan , Mittelbayerische Zeitung , June 20, 2007, accessed on November 17, 2012.
- ↑ Ehrenfilser 2015
- ↑ https://www.private-brauereien.de/de/private-brauereien/bayerischer-bierorden/index.php
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SURNAME | Wasmeier, Markus |
BRIEF DESCRIPTION | German ski racer |
DATE OF BIRTH | September 9, 1963 |
PLACE OF BIRTH | Schliersee |