Matthias Mayer

Matthias Mayer, born on 9 June 1990 in Afritz am See in Carinthia, is an Austrian retired World Cup alpine ski racer and Olympic champion whose best discipline is the super-G. He made his World Cup debut in Sestriere in February 2009 and took his first World Cup podium in a super-G in Kitzbühel in January 2013. At the 2014 Winter Olympics in Sochi he won the downhill, his second Olympic gold came in the super-G in 2018, and at the 2022 Winter Olympics he won the downhill bronze and successfully defended his super-G title. With three Olympic titles and a bronze he is Austria's most decorated Olympic alpine medalist. His father Helmut Mayer won silver in the first Olympic super-G in 1988. He announced his retirement on 29 December 2022, hours before a super-G in Bormio, with 11 World Cup wins and 45 podium finishes.