33 Facts About Marcel Hirscher

Marcel Hirscher was born on 2 March 1989 and is an Austrian former World Cup alpine ski racer.

Marcel Hirscher competed primarily in slalom and giant slalom, as well as combined and occasionally in super G Winner of a record eight consecutive World Cup titles, Hirscher has won 11 medals at the Alpine Skiing World Championships, seven of them gold, a silver medal in slalom at the 2014 Winter Olympics, and two gold medals in the combined and giant slalom at the 2018 Winter Olympics.

Marcel Hirscher won a total of 67 World Cup races, ranking second on the male all-time list.

At the 2010 Winter Olympics, Hirscher placed fourth in the giant slalom and fifth in the slalom at Whistler Creekside.

Marcel Hirscher placed fourth in the giant slalom at the 2009 World Championships, but broke his ankle the weekend preceding the 2011 World Championships, which ended his 2011 season.

Marcel Hirscher won the World Cup overall and giant slalom titles, and placed third in the slalom.

In October 2012, Marcel Hirscher was awarded the Skieur d'Or Award by members of the International Association of Ski Journalists for his performances during the previous season.

Marcel Hirscher won the overall World Cup title again in 2013 with 6 victories; he won the slalom title and was runner-up in giant slalom.

Marcel Hirscher scored a total of 18 podium finishes out of 19 races in the two technical events.

In that particular race Marcel Hirscher was leading after the first run, built up his advantage to over a second in the second run, but nearly fell several gates before the final, thus missing the win and finished only 16th.

Marcel Hirscher became the first male racer to retain the overall World Cup title since fellow Austrian Stephan Eberharter in 2002 and 2003 and the first to win it three years in a row since American Phil Mahre did so in 1981,1982 and 1983.

In 2015, Marcel Hirscher dominated the giant slalom standings with 5 wins, including a winning margin of 3.28 seconds in Garmisch, and won the GS title for the second time.

Marcel Hirscher became the first male alpine skier to win the overall World Cup title four times in a row.

In 2016, Marcel Hirscher became the most successful Austrian male World Cup GS skier by winning in Beaver Creek, Colorado, surpassing Benjamin Raich and Hermann Maier.

On 13 November in Levi, Finland, Marcel Hirscher won the first slalom of the 2017 season and equalled Pirmin Zurbriggen's win total of 40, putting him equal 5th in the standings.

Marcel Hirscher achieved his 93rd podium, surpassing Benjamin Raich's total.

At the FIS Alpine World Ski Championships 2017 in St Moritz, Switzerland Marcel Hirscher won gold in the GS and slalom, and silver in the combined, missing the gold by just 0.01 seconds.

Marcel Hirscher was the most successful athlete at the championships.

One day later Marcel Hirscher finished fourth in the slalom and with it secured his fourth World Cup slalom title.

The start of the 2018 season was expected to be more difficult as Marcel Hirscher suffered a fracture to his left ankle during the first day of snow training on 17 August.

On 4 January 2018, Marcel Hirscher achieved his 5th win of the season in the slalom in Zagreb and with it his 50th World Cup win, matching the total of legendary technical racer Alberto Tomba.

Two days later Marcel Hirscher achieved his sixth win of the season by winning the GS in Adelboden and moved to 3rd overall in the men's World Cup winners rankings.

At the 2018 Pyeongchang Winter Olympics, Marcel Hirscher won gold in the men's combined event, his first competition of the games.

Marcel Hirscher secured the GS crystal globe for the 5th time by winning the race with a winning margin of 1.66 seconds.

In December 2018 Marcel Hirscher became Austria's most prolific World Cup race winner when he won a slalom in Saalbach-Hinterglemm in his native state of Salzburg, his 63rd World Cup victory, taking him past the previous record holder Annemarie Moser-Proll.

Marcel Hirscher took a total of 14 World Cup wins in 2018, breaking the previous record for most World Cup race wins in a single calendar year set by Ingemar Stenmark, but was eclipsed by Mikaela Shiffrin, who set a new record by winning 15 World Cup events during 2018.

Marcel Hirscher was named as a L'Equipe Champion of Champions for 2018, as well as Eurosport's Sportsman of the Year.

At the 2019 Alpine World Ski Championships in Are in February, Marcel Hirscher took a silver in the giant slalom behind Henrik Kristoffersen, before winning the slalom by 0.65 seconds after holding a 0.56 second lead from the first run: Marcel Hirscher described his first run as one of the best performances of his career.

Marcel Hirscher led teammates Michael Matt and Marco Schwarz in a clean sweep of the podium places, taking Austria's only gold of the championships, and preventing them from leaving a Worlds without a gold medal for the first time since 1987.

Marcel Hirscher subsequently told the media that he would assess his future at the end of the season, but stated that he thought that these were his last Worlds.

On 4 September 2019, Marcel Hirscher announced his retirement from alpine skiing.

In 2021 Marcel Hirscher developed and launched a brand of skis called Van Deer, that was later renamed to Van Deer-Red Bull in a partnership with Red Bull.

In June 2018, Marcel Hirscher married Laura Moisl, his long-time girlfriend.