Günther Mader

Personal information
Born	(1964-06-24)June 24, 1964 (age 61) Matrei am Brenner, Tyrol,Austria
Occupation	Alpine skier
Height	177 cm (5 ft 10 in)
Sport
Skiing career
Disciplines	Downhill,super-G,giant slalom,slalom,combined
Club	SC Gries Am Brenner
World Cup debut	22 December1982 (age 18)
Retired	March1998 (age 33)
Website	guenthermader.at
Olympics
Teams	4 -(1988-98)
Medals	1 (0 gold)
World Championships
Teams	7 -(1985-97)
Medals	6 (0 gold)
World Cup
Seasons	16 -(1983-98)
Wins	14
Podiums	44
Overall titles	0 -(2nd in1995 &1996)
Discipline titles	2 - (1GS, 1K )
Medal record Men'salpine skiing Representing Austria World Cup race podiums Event 1st 2nd 3rd Slalom 1 0 4 Giant slalom 2 3 3 Downhill 1 2 3 Super-G 6 4 2 Combined 4 2 4 Total 14 11 16 Olympic Games 1992 Albertville Downhill World Championships 1987 Crans-Montana Slalom 1987 Crans-Montana Combined 1989 Vail Combined 1991 Saalbach Combined 1996 Sierra Nevada Combined 1997 Sestriere Super-G

Günther Mader (born 24 June 1964) is a formeralpine ski racer andOlympic medalist fromAustria. Born inMatrei am Brenner,Tyrol, he is one of only five men to have wonWorld Cup races in all five alpine disciplines (downhill,super-G,giant slalom,slalom, andcombined).

Mader made his World Cup debut at age 18 and competed for 16 seasons, including fourWinter Olympics and sevenworld championships. He was the bronze medalist in the downhill at the1992 Olympics and won a total of six medals in the world championships. He won his first championship medal, the silver medal in the slalom Race atCrans Montana in 1987, after only placing eighth after the first leg of the competition. Mader won two World Cup season titles, giant slalom in1990 and combined in1996, and placed second in the overall World Cup standings in1995 and 1996, and third in 1990. Without his 14 wins, he did achieve another 27 places in World Cup races.^{[clarification needed]}

His only World Cup victory indownhill was the prestigiousHahnenkamm inKitzbühel, Austria, in1996 at age 31. Mader retired from competition after the1998 season with 14 World Cup victories, 44 podiums, and 146 top ten finishes.^[1]

Only 13 days after his retirement in March 1998, he suffered astroke: as a result the right side of his body was paralysed and he lost 85 percent of his vocabulary. However he recovered to the greatest possible extent. After convalescence, he wrote a book titledÜberLeben which covered his career, the stroke and his work as director of racing at ski manufacturerSalomon in Austria, a position he took up during his recovery from his stroke.ÜberLeben has a double meaning in German, translatable as "about life" but also as "survival".

• 14 victories - (1DH, 6SG, 2GS, 1SL, 4K)
• 44 podiums - (6DH, 12SG, 8GS, 5SL, 13K)

• Günther Mader atFIS (alpine)
• Günther Mader atOlympedia
• Günther Mader at Ski-DB Alpine Ski Database
• Official website(in German)

• Austrian male alpine skiers
• Olympic bronze medalists for Austria
• Olympic alpine skiers for Austria
• Alpine skiers at the 1988 Winter Olympics
• Alpine skiers at the 1992 Winter Olympics
• Alpine skiers at the 1994 Winter Olympics
• Alpine skiers at the 1998 Winter Olympics
• 1964 births
• Living people
• Olympic medalists in alpine skiing
• FIS Alpine Ski World Cup champions
• Medalists at the 1992 Winter Olympics
• Recipients of the Decoration of Honour for Services to the Republic of Austria
• People from Innsbruck-Land District
• 20th-century Austrian sportsmen

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