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Marco BüchelCompetitor for 
LiechtensteinMen's Alpine Skiing World Championships Silver 1999 Vail Giant Slalom Marco Büchel (born November 4, 1971, in Walenstadt, Switzerland) is a retired alpine ski racer from Liechtenstein. He participated in a record-tying six Winter Olympics, starting in 1992 and ending in 2010.
On 18 January 2008, Büchel won a World Cup Super-G race at Kitzbühel, and set a then record as the oldest winner of a World Cup race at the age of 36 years, 75 days. This has since been surpassed by Didier Cuche, who won a downhill race at the same location on 22 January 2011.[1]
Büchel is featured in the OL-floka music video for the 1994 Winter Olympics. He's seen climbing upwards the combined slalom course, after missing a gate.[2]
Büchel retired following the Super-G race at Garmisch-Partenkirchen (Germany) on 11 March 2010. He celebrated his last race by racing not in the regular catsuit but by wearing a tuxedo with black Bermuda shorts. As he skied down the course, Büchel slowed down many times to "high-five" various trainers.[3]
He had also appeared on the Amazing Race 18 as contestants had to give him the correct answer for calculating the Length of Litchenstein.
Contents
Results
- World Championships
- 1999: Silver Medal in Giant slalom
- Swiss Championships
- 1999/2000: Champion in Downhill, Giant Slalom, Combination
- 2000/2001: Champion in Parallel Slalom
World Cup victories
Date Location Race 13 February 2003 
Garmisch-PartenkirchenSuper-G 17 December 2005 
Val GardenaDownhill 25 November 2006 
Lake LouiseDownhill 18 January 2008 
KitzbühelSuper-G References
- ^ "Triumphant Didier Cuche sets age mark". ESPN.com. Associated Press (ESPN). 22 January 2011. http://sports.espn.go.com/oly/skiing/news/story?id=6047868. Retrieved 22 January 2011.
- ^ OL-floka, 1994 Winter Olympics at Lillehammer
- ^ Buechel Marks Last Appearance in a World Cup Race
External links
- Marco-Buechel.li - official site
Categories:- Olympic alpine skiers of 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 alpine skiers
- 1971 births
- Living people
- Liechtenstein sportspeople stubs
- Alpine skiing biography stubs
- World Championships
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