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Medal record Men's nordic combined Competitor for Austria
Olympic Games Gold 2006 Turin 4 x 5 km team Gold 2010 Vancouver 4 x 5 km team Bronze 2002 Salt Lake City 4 x 5 km team World Championships Gold 2011 Oslo 4 x 5 km team normal hill Gold 2011 Oslo 4 x 5 km team large hill Silver 1999 Ramsau 7.5 km sprint Silver 2001 Lahti 4 x 5 km team Bronze 1997 Trondheim 4 x 5 km team Mario Stecher (born July 17, 1977, in Eisenerz) is an Austrian Nordic combined skier who has competed since 1994. Competing in five Winter Olympics, he won three medals in the 4 x 5 km team event with two golds (2006, 2010) and a bronze (2002). Stecher'ss best individual finish was fifth in the 10 km individual normal hill event at Vancouver in 2010.
He won three medals at the FIS Nordic World Ski Championships with two silvers (7.5 km sprint: 1999, 4 x 5 km team: 2001) and a bronze (4 x 5 km team: 1997).
Stecher has a total of nine World Cup victories since 1994, including the Nordic combined event at the Holmenkollen ski festival that same year.
References
- Mario Stecher at the International Ski Federation
- Holmenkollen winners since 1892 - click Vinnere for downloadable pdf file (Norwegian)
- Official website (English) & (German)
Olympic champions in men's team nordic combined 3 x 10 km 1988: West Germany (Thomas Müller, Hans-Peter Pohl, & Hubert Schwarz) * 1992: Japan (Reiichi Mikata, Takanori Kono, & Kenji Ogiwara) * 1994: Japan (Takanori Kono, Masashi Abe, & Kenji Ogiwara)4 x 5 km 1998: Norway (Halldor Skard, Kenneth Braaten, Bjarte Engen Vik, & Fred Børre Lundberg) * 2002: Finland (Jari Mantila, Hannu Manninen, Jaakko Tallus, & Samppa Lajunen) * 2006: Austria (Michael Gruber, Christoph Bieler, Felix Gottwald, & Mario Stecher) * 2010: Austria (Bernhard Gruber, David Kreiner, Felix Gottwald, & Mario Stecher)Categories:- 1977 births
- Austrian Nordic combined skiers
- Holmenkollen winners
- Living people
- Nordic combined skiers at the 1994 Winter Olympics
- Nordic combined skiers at the 1998 Winter Olympics
- Nordic combined skiers at the 2002 Winter Olympics
- Nordic combined skiers at the 2006 Winter Olympics
- Nordic combined skiers at the 2010 Winter Olympics
- Nordic combined Grand Prix winners
- Olympic gold medalists for Austria
- Olympic bronze medalists for Austria
- Olympic Nordic combined skiers of Austria
- Olympic medalists in Nordic combined
- Austrian Winter Olympic medalist stubs
- Nordic skiing biography stubs
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