Markus Wasmeier

Markus Wasmeier is a German former World Cup alpine skier. He was World champion and two times Olympic champion.

Career

At the 1985 World Championships at Bormio, Italy, he won the giant slalom at age 21, before recording a World Cup victory.
Born in Schliersee, Bavaria, West Germany, Wasmeier's first World Cup Race was on 5 February 1983, when he finished 49th in the downhill Race at St. Anton am Arlberg. He gained his first World Cup points in January 1984 by capturing 10th place in the Alpine Combined at Garmisch-Partenkirchen, and that December, he achieved his first podium in. In a downhill race in February 1987 at Furano, Japan, he broke two vertebrae and missed the rest of the season.
Wasmeier won a total of nine World Cup races, starting with two victories on 9 February 1986, in the Combined and Super-G events at Morzine, France.
The surprising result of double Olympic gold for Wasmeier at age thirty gained him the title of 1994 "Sportsman of the Year" in Germany,

World Cup results

Individual races

9 wins

Season	Date	Location	Discipline
1986	9 February 1986	Morzine, France	Combined
1986	9 February 1986	Morzine, France	Super-G
1986	16 March 1986	Whistler, Canada	Super G
1987	6 December 1986	Val-d'Isère, France	Super-G
1987	11 January 1987	Garmisch, West Germany	Super G
1987	17 January 1987	Wengen, Switzerland	Downhill
1988	10 January 1988	Val-d'Isère, France	Super G
1991	17 March 1991	Lake Louise, Canada	Super G
1992	11 January 1992	Garmisch, Germany	Downhill

After racing

After retiring from competitive skiing, Wasmeier founded the farm and winter sport museum Bauernhof- und Wintersportmuseum Schliersee on 1 May 2007, and he has remained its curator and patron ever since. The museum provides insight into traditional Bavarian peasant life and aims to preserve old traditions by communicating them to coming generations.
In 2009, Wasmeier shared his passion for building restoration and preserving tradition with an international group of young people through his involvement with the D&F Academy. Wasmeier worked with an international group of young people to restore a 17th-century farmhouse in the German Alps utilizing original materials, traditional tools, wood-crafting and handicraft techniques. He remains involved with the DO School as an advisor and supporter.
From 1993 to 1994, he was a commentator for the German Television Broadcaster ARD until 2007 and from 2008 until 2014. He is a consultant in the German Skiing Federation since 2000. Married since 1991, his wife Brigitte is a South Tyrolian.