Felix Neureuther (; born 26 March 1984) is a German retired

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alpine ski racer and former World champion.

Early life

Born in

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, Neureuther is the son of former World and

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champion

Rosi Mittermaier Rosa Anna Katharina Mittermaier-Neureuther (; 5 August 1950 – 4 January 2023) was a German alpine skier. She was the overall World Cup champion in 1976 and a double gold medalist at the 1976 Winter Olympics. Mittermaier competed in alpine sk ...

and

Christian Neureuther Christian Neureuther (born 28 April 1949) is a former World Cup alpine ski racer from Germany. Racing career Born and raised in Garmisch-Partenkirchen, Bavaria, Neureuther specialized in the slalom and won six World Cup races and attained twe ...

, a slalom specialist and winner of six World Cup races. He is the nephew of Evi Mittermaier, who was also a successful alpine ski racer and former Olympian in

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and

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. As of 2020, the combined Neureuther–Mittermaier family has 31 World Cup wins, with 115 podium finishes.

Career

Neureuther was raised in

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and was a member of the German national ski team. He has competed in nine

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and three

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. Neureuther won a silver medal in the slalom at the 2013 World Championships and added a bronze medal in the team event. Previously, he had won a gold medal in the team event in

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. He won bronze medals in slalom in

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and

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. Neureuther won his first World Cup race in

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, in a slalom at

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, Austria. He won his only giant slalom in January

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, Switzerland, which was only the second victory by a German male in a World Cup giant slalom;

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won the first in March 1973, nearly 41 years earlier in

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. Through January

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, Neureuther has thirteen World Cup victories and 47 podiums, making him Germany's most successful male World Cup skier. In March 2019 he announced his retirement from competition ahead of his final race, a slalom at the World Cup finals in

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World Cup results

Season standings

Race podiums

World Championship results

Olympic results

Personal

Neureuther's parents are both former World Cup ski racers, members of the

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team in the 1970s. His father is

, winner of six World Cup slaloms, and his mother is

, a

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, and

champion, all in

. At the

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, she won medals in all three alpine events, two golds and a silver. Since 2013 he has been in a relationship with biathlete

Miriam Gössner Miriam Neureuther ('' née'' Gössner; born 21 June 1990) is a former German biathlete and cross-country skier. She has won an Olympic silver medal in cross-country skiing and two biathlon world championship titles, all in team events. Noted for ...

: in October 2017 she gave birth to the couple's first child, a girl named Matilda and the couple married in December same year. One of Neureuther's childhood friends is footballer

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: he presented Schweinsteiger with the "Special jury award" at the 2016

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References

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