Benjamin Karl

Benjamin Karl is an Austrian professional snowboarder who specialises in the parallel disciplines of alpine snowboarding. He began snowboarding in 1995 near a mountain in Lower Austria and has been a salaried athlete of the Austrian Armed Forces since 2004. Over more than 215 World Cup starts he collected 58 podium finishes, 27 of them victories, and won the overall World Cup title three times. He is a five-time World Champion and won Olympic gold in the parallel giant slalom at the 2022 Winter Olympics in Beijing, then defended it at the 2026 Winter Olympics, where at 40 years and 115 days he became the oldest individual gold medallist in Winter Olympics history. He also took silver at the 2010 Games and bronze at the 2014 Games, and announced that 2025-26 would be his final season.