Marlies Schild

Marlies Schild, who also appears as Marlies Raich, was born on 31 May 1981 in Admont in Styria and is a retired Austrian World Cup alpine ski racer who specialised in slalom and giant slalom. By the age of nineteen she had undergone five knee operations, which led her to concentrate on the technical disciplines. She won four Olympic medals, silvers in the combined in 2006 and in the slalom in 2010 and 2014, and a bronze in the slalom in 2006, and seven World Championship medals, including slalom gold in 2011. She finished with 37 World Cup wins, 35 of them in slalom, and five season titles, and she retired in September 2014. She is married to the skier Benjamin Raich.