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Hermann Maier (born 7 December 1972) is an Austrian former
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champion alpine ski racer and Olympic gold medalist. Nicknamed the "Herminator", Maier ranks among the greatest alpine ski racers in history, with four overall World Cup titles (
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,
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,
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,
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), two
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gold medals (both in
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), and three
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titles (
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: 2, and
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). His 54 World Cup race victories – 24 super-G, 15 downhills, 14 giant slaloms, and 1 combined – rank third on the men's all-time list behind
Ingemar Stenmark Jan Ingemar Stenmark (; born 18 March 1956) is a Swedish former World Cup alpine ski racer. He is regarded as one of the most prominent Swedish athletes ever, and as the greatest slalom and giant slalom specialist of all time. He competed fo ...
's 86 victories and
Marcel Hirscher Marcel Hirscher (born 2 March 1989) is an Austrian former World Cup alpine ski racer. Hirscher made his World Cup debut in March 2007. He competed primarily in slalom and giant slalom, as well as combined and occasionally in super G. Winner of ...
's 67 victories. , he holds the record for the most points in one season by a male alpine skier, with 2000 points from the 2000 season. From 2000–2013 he also held the title of most points in one season by any alpine skier, until
Tina Maze Tina Maze (; born 2 May 1983) is a retired Slovenian World Cup alpine ski racer. Career Maze is the most successful Slovenian ski racer in history with a career that culminated with two gold medals at the 2014 Winter Olympics. She was awarded ...
scored 2414 points in the 2013 season.


Early years

Maier did not initially enjoy much success in ski racing. As a 15-year-old at the
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ski academy, he was sent home after being told he would not succeed because of his slight build, caused by growth impairments. He returned home to his hometown of Flachau and his father's ski school, which remains Maier's home. He took up work as a bricklayer in the summer and a ski instructor in the winter. Participating in local races, Maier became a multiple regional champion in
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and
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, but still was not able to gain a spot in the strong Austrian
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ski team. Putting that behind him, his outstanding talent was recognized for the first time by Austrian coaches on 6 January
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, when he was timed with the 12th fastest time in a World Cup giant slalom in Flachau, although only starting as a forerunner, not participating in the actual competition. This would become the starting point of his international career. Through his result in Flachau he gained the attention of the ÖSV (Austrian Ski Federation) and only two days later he started in his first Europa Cup race in
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and finished in second place. He won his next race at the same location the day after. Although the Europa Cup season started in mid December and he joined late, so he wasn't starting in all races, he won the overall Europa Cup title, as well as the season title in giant slalom.


Ski career

Maier made his
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debut at age 23 on 10 February
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, and finished 26th in the
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at
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, Austria. A year later in February
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, he won his first World Cup event – a
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race in Garmisch-Partenkirchen. He quickly established himself as an explosive and dynamic racer, well known for his strength, willingness to take risks, and strong work ethic. Maier soon dominated alpine ski racing, winning the gold medal in the
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and
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at the
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in Nagano, only a few days after a dramatic crash in the downhill race where he flew spectacularly off the sunlit course, landed partially on his head, tumbled head over heels several times, and crashed through two layers of B-netting. Despite the horrible look of the crash, Maier was able to walk out under his own power. That put him on the cover of ''
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'' magazine and made him a well known sportsman around the globe. Maier won the overall World Cup title in
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, as well as the super-G and giant slalom season titles, and placed second in the downhill standings. In
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he won the overall World Cup title, as well as the season titles in downhill, super-G, and giant slalom. He had a dominating performance, setting the then most point garnered by an alpine skier, of 2000 points. This record stood until
Tina Maze Tina Maze (; born 2 May 1983) is a retired Slovenian World Cup alpine ski racer. Career Maze is the most successful Slovenian ski racer in history with a career that culminated with two gold medals at the 2014 Winter Olympics. She was awarded ...
scored 2,414 points in 2013.New York Daily News
"Tina Maze is the Slovenian beauty who'll be Lindsey Vonn's biggest adversary at the Sochi Winter Olympics in 2014"
Nathaniel Vinton, 16 March 2013 He won the overall World Cup title in
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, as well as that season's titles in downhill, super-G, and giant slalom. He won 13 World Cup races, but settled for two medals (silver and bronze) in the speed events at the 2001 World Championships in
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. He was the reigning world champion in both events, won in
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at Beaver Creek,
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. His racing career nearly ended following a near-fatal motorcycle accident on August 24, 2001; he collided with a car on his way home from a summer training session in Austria. Doctors nearly amputated his lower right leg, but instead Maier underwent massive
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. Most believed his racing career was over, and he had to sit out the
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season, missing the
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in
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. He returned to international competition in January
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in
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, Switzerland, and two weeks later won a
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title in the skiing-mecca of
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, Austria. In
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, his first full season back, he reclaimed both the super-G and overall titles — the latter being his fourth — and received the Laureus World Sports Award for the "Comeback of the Year". Reflecting his apparently indestructible nature, he is sometimes jocularly known as "The Herminator." After his 1998 Olympic gold medals in Nagano he also appeared on ''
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'' on
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– together with Austrian-born actor
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, who is known worldwide as "
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". In 2004, Maier wrote an autobiography with his friend and former publicity agent, Knut Okresek. The book, ''Hermann Maier: Das Rennen Meines Lebens'' (in German), dealt mainly with his recovery from the 2001 motorcycle accident. In 2005, VeloPress, a
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-based publisher affiliated with ''Ski Racing'' magazine, acquired the worldwide English language rights to the book, which was published in time for the
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in
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, Italy, as ''Hermann Maier: The Race of My Life''. In October
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, he won the opening giant slalom in
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to amass 51 victories in the
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. This placed him fifth on the career victory list, behind
Ingemar Stenmark Jan Ingemar Stenmark (; born 18 March 1956) is a Swedish former World Cup alpine ski racer. He is regarded as one of the most prominent Swedish athletes ever, and as the greatest slalom and giant slalom specialist of all time. He competed fo ...
,
Lindsey Vonn Lindsey Caroline Vonn ( ; born October 18, 1984) is an American former World Cup alpine ski racer on the US Ski Team. She won four World Cup overall championships — second only amongst female skiers to Annemarie Moser-Pröll — with three ...
,
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, and Vreni Schneider. On 20 June 2007, Maier announced he was switching to
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as his equipment sponsor, ending his long affiliation with Atomic. Also switching from Atomic to Head at this time were champions
Bode Miller Samuel Bode Miller ( ; born October 12, 1977) is an American former World Cup alpine ski racer. He is an Olympic and World Championship gold medalist, a two-time overall World Cup champion in 2005 and 2008, and the most successful male America ...
of the U.S. and Didier Cuche of Switzerland. On 18 January
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, Maier finished second in the
Kitzbühel Kitzbühel (, also: ; ) is a medieval town situated in the Kitzbühel Alps along the river Kitzbüheler Ache in Tyrol, Austria, about east of the state capital Innsbruck and is the administrative centre of the Kitzbühel district (). Kitzbühe ...
's super-G, behind Marco Büchel and in front of Didier Cuche for a total podium age of 104 years. His career results in the super-G races at Kitzbühel are the best in history (7 races: 5 wins and 2 second places). The following day, Maier finished fifth in the downhill. These were his best results of the 2008 season. Maier won the first super-G of the 2009 season, held in Lake Louise, for his 24th super-G win. It was his 54th World Cup victory, but the first in nearly three years, and came a week before his 36th birthday. It was Maier's fourth victory in the super-G at Lake Louise, the last coming five years earlier. Maier announced his retirement in 2009 after thirteen years of competing in the World Cup circuit.


World Cup results


Season titles

*14 total: 4 overall, 2 downhill, 5 super-G, 3 giant slalom


Season standings


Race victories

*54 wins: 15 downhill, 24 super-G, 14 giant slalom, 1 combined *96 podiums: 25 DH, 38 SG, 28 GS, 4 K, 1 parallel slalom {, , -valign=top ,


Downhill

*15 wins *25 podiums {, class="wikitable" ! Season ! Date ! Location , - , align=center rowspan=2,
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Garmisch Garmisch-Partenkirchen (; Bavarian: ''Garmasch-Partakurch''), nicknamed Ga-Pa, is an Alpine ski town in Bavaria, southern Germany. It is the seat of government of the district of Garmisch-Partenkirchen (abbreviated ''GAP''), in the Ob ...
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St. Anton Sankt Anton am Arlberg, commonly referred to as St Anton, is a village and ski resort in the Austrian state of Tyrol. It lies in the Tyrolean Alps, with aerial tramways and chairlifts up to , yielding a vertical drop of . It is also a popular s ...
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Giant slalom

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Tignes Tignes () is a commune in the Tarentaise Valley, in the Savoie department in the Rhône-Alpes region in south-eastern France, known for the highest skiable area and the longest ski season in Europe. It is located in the Savoie region with good t ...
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Todtnau Todtnau is a town in the district of Lörrach in Baden-Württemberg, Germany. As of 2009 its population was of 4,932. Geography It is situated in the Black Forest, on the river Wiese, 20 km southeast of Freiburg. The municipality counts ...
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Super-G

*24 wins *38 podiums {, class="wikitable" , - ! Season ! Date ! Location , - , align=center rowspan=1,
1997 File:1997 Events Collage.png, From left, clockwise: The movie set of ''Titanic'', the highest-grossing movie in history at the time; '' Harry Potter and the Philosopher's Stone'', is published; Comet Hale-Bopp passes by Earth and becomes one of ...
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Garmisch Garmisch-Partenkirchen (; Bavarian: ''Garmasch-Partakurch''), nicknamed Ga-Pa, is an Alpine ski town in Bavaria, southern Germany. It is the seat of government of the district of Garmisch-Partenkirchen (abbreviated ''GAP''), in the Ob ...
, Germany , - , align=center rowspan=4,
1998 1998 was designated as the ''International Year of the Ocean''. Events January * January 6 – The ''Lunar Prospector'' spacecraft is launched into orbit around the Moon, and later finds evidence for frozen water, in soil in permanently s ...
, , align=6 Dec 1997 , , Beaver Creek, USA , - , align=10 Jan 1998 , , rowspan=2,
Schladming Schladming is a small former mining town in the northwest of the Austrian state of Styria that is now a popular tourist destination. It has become a large winter-sports resort and has held various skiing competitions, including most notably the F ...
, Austria , - , align=11 Jan 1998 , - , align=1 Feb 1998 , , Garmisch, Germany , - , align=center rowspan=4,
1999 File:1999 Events Collage.png, From left, clockwise: The funeral procession of King Hussein of Jordan in Amman; the 1999 İzmit earthquake kills over 17,000 people in Turkey; the Columbine High School massacre, one of the first major school shoot ...
, , align=13 Dec 1998 , ,
Val d'Isère Val may refer to: Val-a Film * ''Val'' (film), an American documentary about Val Kilmer, directed by Leo Scott and Ting Poo Military equipment * Aichi D3A, a Japanese World War II dive bomber codenamed "Val" by the Allies * AS Val, a Sov ...
, France , - , align=21 Dec 1998 , ,
Innsbruck Innsbruck (; bar, Innschbruck, label=Austro-Bavarian ) is the capital of Tyrol and the fifth-largest city in Austria. On the River Inn, at its junction with the Wipp Valley, which provides access to the Brenner Pass to the south, it had a p ...
, Austria , - , align=9 Jan 1999 , , Schladming, Austria , - , align=7 Mar 1999 , ,
Kvitfjell Kvitfjell ( no, White mountain) is a ski resort in Norway, located in the municipality of Ringebu. Developed for the 1994 Winter Olympics in Lillehammer, it is one of the most modern resorts in the world, with snowmaking on 80% of the alpine pist ...
, Norway , - , align=center rowspan=4,
2000 File:2000 Events Collage.png, From left, clockwise: Protests against Bush v. Gore after the 2000 United States presidential election; Heads of state meet for the Millennium Summit; The International Space Station in its infant form as seen from S ...
, , align=28 Nov 1999 , , Beaver Creek, USA , - , align=5 Dec 1999 , , Lake Louise, Canada , - , align=21 Jan 2000 , ,
Kitzbühel Kitzbühel (, also: ; ) is a medieval town situated in the Kitzbühel Alps along the river Kitzbüheler Ache in Tyrol, Austria, about east of the state capital Innsbruck and is the administrative centre of the Kitzbühel district (). Kitzbühe ...
, Austria , - , align=16 Mar 2000 , ,
Bormio Bormio ( lmo, Bormi, rm, italic=yes, , german: Worms im Veltlintal) is a town and ''comune'' with a population of about 4,100 located in the Province of Sondrio, Lombardy region of the Alps in northern Italy. The centre of the upper Valtellina ...
, Italy , - , align=center rowspan=3,
2001 The September 11 attacks against the United States by Al-Qaeda, which killed 2,977 people and instigated the global war on terror, were a defining event of 2001. The United States led a multi-national coalition in an invasion of Afghanist ...
, , align=26 Nov 2000 , , Lake Louise, Canada , - , align=19 Jan 2001 , , Kitzbühel, Austria , - , align=4 Mar 2001 , , Kvitfjell, Norway , - , align=center rowspan=1,
2003 File:2003 Events Collage.png, From top left, clockwise: The crew of STS-107 perished when the Space Shuttle Columbia disintegrated during reentry into Earth's atmosphere; SARS became an epidemic in China, and was a precursor to SARS-CoV-2; A ...
, , align=27 Jan 2003 , , Kitzbühel, Austria , - , align=center rowspan=3,
2004 2004 was designated as an International Year of Rice by the United Nations, and the International Year to Commemorate the Struggle Against Slavery and its Abolition (by UNESCO). Events January * January 3 – Flash Airlines Flight ...
, , align=30 Nov 2003 , , Lake Louise , - , align=1 Feb 2004 , , Garmisch, Germany , - , align=11 Mar 2004 , ,
Sestriere Sestriere (/se'strjɛre/) ( oc, Sestrieras, pms, Ël Sestrier, french: Sestrières) is a ski resort in Piedmont, Italy, a ''comune'' (municipality) of the Metropolitan City of Turin. It is situated in Val Susa, from the French border. Its name ...
, Italy , - , align=center rowspan=2,
2005 File:2005 Events Collage V2.png, From top left, clockwise: Hurricane Katrina in the Gulf of Mexico; the Funeral of Pope John Paul II is held in Vatican City; " Me at the zoo", the first video ever to be uploaded to YouTube; Eris was discover ...
, , align=24 Jan 2005 , , Kitzbühel, Austria , - , align=6 Mar 2005 , , Kvitfjell, Norway , - , align=center rowspan=1,
2006 File:2006 Events Collage V1.png, From top left, clockwise: The 2006 Winter Olympics open in Turin; Twitter is founded and launched by Jack Dorsey; The Nintendo Wii is released; Montenegro votes to declare independence from Serbia; The 2006 ...
, , align=20 Jan 2006 , , Kitzbühel, Austria , - , align=center rowspan=1,
2009 File:2009 Events Collage V2.png, From top left, clockwise: The vertical stabilizer of Air France Flight 447 is pulled out from the Atlantic Ocean; Barack Obama becomes the first African American to become President of the United States; Protests ...
, , align=30 Nov 2008 , , Lake Louise, Canada


Combined

*1 win *4 podiums {, class="wikitable" ! Season ! Date ! Location , - , align=center rowspan=1,
1998 1998 was designated as the ''International Year of the Ocean''. Events January * January 6 – The ''Lunar Prospector'' spacecraft is launched into orbit around the Moon, and later finds evidence for frozen water, in soil in permanently s ...
, , align=18 Jan 1998 , ,
Veysonnaz Veysonnaz is a municipality in the district of Sion in the Swiss canton of Valais. Geography Veysonnaz has an area, , of . Of this area, or 29.1% is used for agricultural purposes, while or 44.5% is forested. Of the rest of the land, or ...
, Switzerland


World Championship results

{, class=wikitable style="text-align:center" !  Year   !!  Age  !!  Slalom  !!  Giant 
 Slalom  !! Super G !! Downhill !!Combined , - ,
1999 File:1999 Events Collage.png, From left, clockwise: The funeral procession of King Hussein of Jordan in Amman; the 1999 İzmit earthquake kills over 17,000 people in Turkey; the Columbine High School massacre, one of the first major school shoot ...
, , ''26'' , , — , , DNF2 , , style="background:gold;", 1 , , style="background:gold;", 1 , , — , - ,
2001 The September 11 attacks against the United States by Al-Qaeda, which killed 2,977 people and instigated the global war on terror, were a defining event of 2001. The United States led a multi-national coalition in an invasion of Afghanist ...
, , ''28'' , , — , , 4 , , style="background:#cc9966;", 3 , , style="background:silver;", 2 , , — , - ,
2003 File:2003 Events Collage.png, From top left, clockwise: The crew of STS-107 perished when the Space Shuttle Columbia disintegrated during reentry into Earth's atmosphere; SARS became an epidemic in China, and was a precursor to SARS-CoV-2; A ...
, , ''30'' , , — , , — , , style="background:silver;", 2 , , 8 , , — , - ,
2005 File:2005 Events Collage V2.png, From top left, clockwise: Hurricane Katrina in the Gulf of Mexico; the Funeral of Pope John Paul II is held in Vatican City; " Me at the zoo", the first video ever to be uploaded to YouTube; Eris was discover ...
, , ''32'' , , — , , style="background:gold;", 1 , , 4 , , 17 , , — , - ,
2007 File:2007 Events Collage.png, From top left, clockwise: Steve Jobs unveils Apple Inc., Apple's first iPhone (1st generation), iPhone; TAM Airlines Flight 3054 overruns a runway and crashes into a gas station, killing almost 200 people; Former Pakis ...
, , ''34'' , , — , , 21 , , 7 , , , 13 , , — , - ,
2009 File:2009 Events Collage V2.png, From top left, clockwise: The vertical stabilizer of Air France Flight 447 is pulled out from the Atlantic Ocean; Barack Obama becomes the first African American to become President of the United States; Protests ...
, , ''36'' , , — , , — , , 18 , , 6 , , —


Olympic results

{, class=wikitable style="text-align:center" !  Year   !!  Age  !!  Slalom  !!  Giant 
 Slalom  !! Super G !! Downhill !!Combined , - ,
1998 1998 was designated as the ''International Year of the Ocean''. Events January * January 6 – The ''Lunar Prospector'' spacecraft is launched into orbit around the Moon, and later finds evidence for frozen water, in soil in permanently s ...
, , ''25'' , , — , , style="background:gold;", 1 , , style="background:gold;", 1 , , DNF , , — , - ,
2006 File:2006 Events Collage V1.png, From top left, clockwise: The 2006 Winter Olympics open in Turin; Twitter is founded and launched by Jack Dorsey; The Nintendo Wii is released; Montenegro votes to declare independence from Serbia; The 2006 ...
, , ''33'' , , — , , style="background:#cc9966;", 3 , , style="background:silver;", 2 , , 6 , , —


Besides skiing

Maier also won an all-around sports competition, the 2001 edition of the American
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competition and he frequently acts in TV adverts for his sponsor bank Raiffeisen. His brother, Alexander Maier, also represented Austria at the Winter Olympics. Maier rode the
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of the
2003 Tour de France The 2003 Tour de France was a multiple stage bicycle race held from 5 to 27 July, and the 90th edition of the Tour de France. It has no overall winner—although American cyclist Lance Armstrong originally won the event, the United States Anti- ...
ahead of the main field, completing the 6.5 km
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in 8 minutes 44 seconds, compared to 7 minutes 26 seconds for stage winner
Bradley McGee Bradley John McGee OAM (born 24 February 1976 in Sydney, New South Wales) is an Australian former professional racing cyclist. He is currently the head coach of the New South Wales Institute of Sport (NSWIS). He started cycling in 1986 at the ...
.


Video


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– Hahnenkamm (full course) – 9th place – 24 Jan 2004
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– 1998 Olympics – Nagano downhill (crash) & giant slalom (2nd run) – gold medal


References


External links

* * *
''Sports Illustrated''
– cover – 23 Feb 1998 – semi-inverted, exiting the 1998 Olympic Downhill {{DEFAULTSORT:Maier, Hermann 1972 births Austrian male alpine skiers Alpine skiers at the 1998 Winter Olympics Alpine skiers at the 2006 Winter Olympics Olympic alpine skiers of Austria Medalists at the 1998 Winter Olympics Medalists at the 2006 Winter Olympics Olympic medalists in alpine skiing Olympic gold medalists for Austria Olympic silver medalists for Austria Olympic bronze medalists for Austria FIS Alpine Ski World Cup champions Laureus World Sports Awards winners Living people People from St. Johann im Pongau District Sportspeople from Salzburg (state)