Marco Büchel (born 4 November 1971 in

Walenstadt Walenstadt is a municipality in the ''Wahlkreis'' (constituency) of Sarganserland in the canton of St. Gallen in Switzerland. It is located on Lake Walen (also known as "Lake Walenstadt"). Geography Walenstadt has an area of . Of this area ...

Switzerland Switzerland, officially the Swiss Confederation, is a landlocked country located in west-central Europe. It is bordered by Italy to the south, France to the west, Germany to the north, and Austria and Liechtenstein to the east. Switzerland ...

) is a Liechtensteiner retired alpine ski racer. He participated in a record-tying six

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, starting in

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and ending in

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. On 18 January 2008, Büchel won a World Cup

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race at

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, and set a then record as the oldest winner of a World Cup race at the age of . This has since been surpassed by

Didier Cuche Didier Cuche (born 16 August 1974) is a former World Cup alpine ski racer from Switzerland. Career Born in Le Pâquier, Neuchâtel, he competed in the downhill and super-G, along with the giant slalom. He won the World Cup downhill and super- ...

, who won a downhill race at the same location on 22 January 2011 to set a new record as the oldest winner of a World Cup race; the following 13 months Cuche extended this record 6 times, finally with his last career victory in the

of Crans Montana on 24 February 2012 to . Büchel is featured in the OL-floka music video for the

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. He's seen climbing upwards in the combined slalom course, after missing a gate. Büchel retired following the Super-G race at

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(Germany) on 11 March 2010. He celebrated his last race by racing not in the regular catsuit, but by wearing a tuxedo with black

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. As he skied down the course, Büchel slowed down many times to "high-five" various trainers. He had also appeared on '' The Amazing Race 18'' as contestants had to give him the correct answer for calculating the Length of Liechtenstein.

Results

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: 2nd in Super-G *

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: Silver Medal in giant slalom *Swiss Championships **1999/2000: Champion in Downhill, giant slalom, Combination **2000/2001: Champion in Parallel slalom

World Cup victories

References

External links

Marco-Buechel.li
- official site Olympic alpine skiers for Liechtenstein Alpine skiers at the 1992 Winter Olympics Alpine skiers at the 1994 Winter Olympics Alpine skiers at the 1998 Winter Olympics Alpine skiers at the 2002 Winter Olympics Alpine skiers at the 2006 Winter Olympics Alpine skiers at the 2010 Winter Olympics Liechtenstein male alpine skiers 1971 births Living people People from Walenstadt {{Liechtenstein-alpine-skiing-bio-stub