Michael Mair (ski racer)

Michael Mair
Michael Mair (1987)
nation	Italy
birthday	13th February 1962 (age 58)
place of birth	Brunico , Italy
Career
discipline	Downhill , Super-G , combination
status	resigned
Placements in the Alpine Ski World Cup
Individual world cup victories 3  Overall World Cup 10. ( 1987/88 )  Downhill World Cup 2. (1987/88)  Super G World Cup 19. ( 1985/86 )  Giant Slalom World Cup 18th ( 1982/83 )  Combination World Cup 8. ( 1988/89 )
Podium placements 1. 2. 3.  Departure 2 6th 5  Super G 1 0 0  combination 0 1 1

Michael ("Much") Mair (born February 13, 1962 in Bruneck ) is a former Italian ski racer . The South Tyrolean won a total of three World Cup victories.

biography

Mair was one of the best downhill racers in Italy in the 1980s , also in the then new Super-G and in the combination he celebrated successes. He achieved his first top ten result in the Ski World Cup with tenth place in the downhill from Crans-Montana on December 21, 1981. At the 1982 World Cup in Schladming , he finished tenth in the downhill.

In the second Super-G in World Cup history, Mair celebrated his first victory on December 22, 1982 at the 3-tre races in Madonna di Campiglio . At the 1984 Olympic Games in Sarajevo , he came in 15th place in downhill, a year later he reached 12th place at the World Championships in Bormio .

The South Tyrolean celebrated his second World Cup victory on December 7, 1985 on the downhill run from Val-d'Isère . Three more podium places helped him to third place in the downhill classification in the 1985/86 season . 1986/87 he reached the 5th place in the downhill ranking with a total of four podium places. On January 23, 1988, he celebrated his third World Cup victory in the downhill run from Leukerbad and finished second in the downhill classification behind the Swiss Pirmin Zurbriggen . At the Olympic Winter Games in Calgary in 1988 , he went to the start in the downhill, but could not finish the race. In November 1989 he tore a cruciate ligament during downhill training on the Saslong in Val Gardena , after which he was unable to build on his earlier successes.

Mair drove his last World Cup race on January 18, 1992. In total, he won three World Cup races and made it onto the podium 16 times. From 1983 to 1987 he won four Italian championship titles . After Mair had ended his active career as a racer, he became the head coach of the Italian women's national ski team.

successes

winter Olympics

• Sarajevo 1984 : 15th departure

World championships

• Schladming 1982 : 10th descent
• Bormio 1985 : 12th departure

World cup

• Season 1985/86 : 3rd exit Score
• Season 1986/87 : 5. Departure rating
• 1987/88 season : 2nd downhill classification
• A total of 16 podium places, including 3 wins:

date	place	country	discipline
22nd December 1982	Madonna di Campiglio	Italy	Super G
7th December 1985	Val d'Isère	France	Departure
January 23, 1988	Leukerbad	Switzerland	Departure

Italian championships

Mair was Italian champion four times :

• Departure: 1983, 1986, 1987
• Combination: 1986

Web links

• Michael Mair in the database of the International Ski Federation (English)
• Michael Mair in the database of Ski-DB (English)
• Michael Mair in the database of Sports-Reference (English; archived from the original )