Lukas Mathies (born 15 March 1991 in

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) is an Austrian alpine snowboarder. He represented his nation

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at the

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, and also became a double medalist, gold and silver, in alpine snowboarding at the 2011 FIS Junior World Championships in

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. Mathies currently trains for the Austrian team and for his original club WSV Sankt Gallenkirch, under his personal coach and mentor Tom Weninger. Mathies qualified for two alpine snowboarding events (including the first-ever men's parallel slalom) at the

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by achieving top three finishes from the FIS World Cup series in

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and in

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. In the men's giant slalom, Mathies was disqualified from the tournament after missing a gate on his first seeding run. Three days later, in the men's slalom, Mathies recorded a total time of 58.93 to grab a third spot in the seeding round but fell short behind Italy's

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in the quarterfinal race by 29-hundredths of a second.

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NBC Olympics ProfileFIS Ski Profile
1991 births Living people Austrian male snowboarders Olympic snowboarders for Austria Snowboarders at the 2014 Winter Olympics Snowboarders at the 2022 Winter Olympics People from Bludenz District Sportspeople from Vorarlberg {{Austria-snowboarding-bio-stub