Markus Wasmeier


Markus Wasmeier. In a downhill race on 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

Season standings

Season titles

Individual races

9 wins
SeasonDateLocationDiscipline
19869 February 1986Morzine, FranceCombined
19869 February 1986Morzine, FranceSuper-G
198616 March 1986Whistler, CanadaSuper G
19876 December 1986Val-d'Isère, FranceSuper-G
198711 January 1987Garmisch, West GermanySuper G
198717 January 1987Wengen, SwitzerlandDownhill
198810 January 1988Val-d'Isère, FranceSuper G
199117 March 1991Lake Louise, CanadaSuper G
199211 January 1992Garmisch, GermanyDownhill

World championship results

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After racing

After retiring from competitive skiing, Wasmeier founded the farm and winter sport museum Bauernhof- und Wintersportmuseum Schliersee on May 1, 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 1993-94, 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.