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Benjamin Raich

{{Short description|Austrian alpine skier}}

{{Infobox alpine ski racer

| name = Benjamin Raich

| image = Benni Raich (33165740250) (cropped).jpg

| image_size =

| caption = Raich in March 2017

| disciplines = Slalom, giant slalom, combined, super-G, downhill

| club = S.V. Leins Pitztal – Tirol

| birth_date = {{birth date and age|1978|2|28|df=y}}

| birth_place = Arzl im Pitztal, Tyrol, Austria

| death_date =

| death_place =

| height = 1.81 m

| wcdebut = 10 March 1996 (age 18)

| retired = 10 September 2015 (age 37)

| website = [http://raich.at/ Raich.at]

| olympicteams = 4 (2002–2014)

| olympicmedals = 4

| olympicgolds = 2

| worldsteams = 9 (1999–2015)

| worldsmedals = 10

| worldsgolds = 3

| wcseasons = 18 (1998–2015)

| wcwins = 36 (14 SL, 14 GS, 1 SG, 7 AC)

| wcpodiums = 92

| wcoveralls = 1 (2006)

| wctitles = 8 (3 SL, 2 GS, 3 AC)

| medals =

{{Medal|Competition|International alpine ski competitions}}

{{MedalCount| total = yes

|Olympic Games|2|0|2

|World Championships|3|6|1

}}

{{Medal|Competition|World Cup race podiums}}

{{MedalCount | total = yes

| Slalom | 14 | 11 | 13

| Giant | 14 | 10 | 11

| Super-G | 1 | 5 | 2

| Downhill | 0 | 0 | 0

| Combined | 7 | 3 | 1

| Parallel | 0 | 0 | 0

}}

{{Medal|Competition | Olympic Games }}

{{Medal|Gold | 2006 Turin | Giant slalom }}

{{Medal|Gold | 2006 Turin | Slalom }}

{{Medal|Bronze | 2002 Salt Lake City | Slalom }}

{{Medal|Bronze | 2002 Salt Lake City | Combined }}

{{Medal|Competition | World Championships }}

{{Medal|Gold | 2005 Bormio | Slalom }}

{{Medal|Gold | 2005 Bormio | Combined }}

{{Medal|Gold | 2007 Åre | Team event }}

{{Medal|Silver | 2001 St. Anton | Slalom }}

{{Medal|Silver | 2005 Bormio | Giant slalom }}

{{Medal|Silver | 2005 Bormio | Team event }}

{{Medal|Silver | 2007 Åre | Super combined }}

{{Medal|Silver | 2009 Val-d'Isère | Giant slalom }}

{{Medal|Silver | 2011 Garmisch | Team event }}

{{Medal|Bronze | 2005 Bormio | Super-G }}

{{Medal|Competition | Junior World Ski Championships }}

{{Medal|Gold | 1996 Hoch-Ybrig | Slalom }}

{{Medal|Gold | 1997 Schladming | Giant slalom }}

{{Medal|Gold | 1998 Megève | Giant slalom }}

{{Medal|Gold | 1998 Megève | Slalom }}

{{Medal|Gold | 1998 Megève | Combination }}

| medals-expand = yes

}}

Benjamin Raich (born 28 February 1978 in Arzl im Pitztal, Tyrol) is an Austrian former World Cup champion alpine ski racer and Olympic gold medalist. With 14 medals won at Winter Olympics and World Championships, 36 World Cup race victories (in all disciplines except downhill), one first place and five second places in the World Cup overall ranking, three victories of the slalom World Cup, three victories of the combined World Cup, two victories of the giant slalom World Cup and the highest score of career World Cup points (ahead of Norwegian Kjetil André Aamodt), he is considered among the best alpine racers in World Cup history.

Career

After winning Junior World Championships in both slalom and giant slalom, Raich made his World Cup debut in March 1996. He scored his first victory in 1999, in slalom.

In 2001 he won the silver medal in slalom at the World Championships, and at the end of the season he won the slalom World Cup. In 2002 he won two bronze medals at the Salt Lake City Olympics.

Raich, who became better at faster specialities such as super-G and downhill with age also, in 2005 barely missed out on the overall World Cup title, placing second to American Bode Miller. At the 2005 World Championships he won a total of five medals, one for each race except for the downhill.

He won the 2006 World Cup overall title in the most successful season of his career, as well as Olympic gold medals in slalom and giant slalom at the Turin Olympics.

Throughout his career Raich has been known for his consistency which led to him to second places in the overall world cup in 2005, 2007, 2008, 2009 and 2010 (narrowly missing out the titles in both 2007 and 2009 by 13 points and 2 points respectively, both times behind Svindal).

His last World Cup race victory came in February 2012 in Swiss Crans Montana, where he won his first and only World Cup victory in super-G. In March 2014, he reached the podium for the first time in more than two years by finishing second (after Ted Ligety) in a giant slalom race in Kranjska Gora, the same place where he also won his first top-3 result more than 15 years earlier (in January 1999). His last top three finish came in early March 2015 in a giant slalom race in Garmisch-Partenkirchen that came to be one of his final races in the alpine world cup.

On September 10, 2015, he announced his retirement.

World Cup results

=Season standings=

class=wikitable style="text-align:center"

! Season !! Age !! Overall !! Slalom !! Giant
slalom !! Super-G !! Downhill !! Combined

19982096—37———
199921107632——
200022964———
2001234bgcolor="gold" | 14———
200224919bgcolor="silver" | 2———
20032586837——
200426bgcolor="cc9966" | 3bgcolor="cc9966" | 34835bgcolor="silver" | 2
200527bgcolor="silver" | 2bgcolor="gold" | 1bgcolor="gold" | 1626bgcolor="gold" | 1
200628bgcolor="gold" | 1bgcolor="cc9966" | 3bgcolor="gold" | 11528bgcolor="gold" | 1
200729bgcolor="silver" | 2bgcolor="gold" | 1bgcolor="cc9966" | 313325
200830bgcolor="silver" | 28bgcolor="silver" | 2bgcolor="cc9966" | 3366
200931bgcolor="silver" | 210bgcolor="silver" | 214325
201032bgcolor="silver" | 26bgcolor="cc9966" | 34—bgcolor="gold" | 1
20113311151985418
20123412161373112
20133520181638—8
20143620176———
20153728239———

=Season titles=

9 titles: 1 overall, 2 giant slalom, 3 slalom, 3 combined

class=wikitable style="font-size:95%;"

! Season !! Discipline

rowspan=1 align=center | 2001align=center | Slalom
rowspan=3 align=center | 2005align=center | Giant slalom
align=center | Slalom
align=center | Combined
rowspan=3 align=center | 2006align=center | Overall
align=center | Giant slalom
align=center | Combined
rowspan=1 align=center | 2007align=center | Slalom
rowspan=1 align=center | 2010align=center | Combined

=Individual races=

36 total: 14 slalom, 14 giant slalom, 1 super-G, 7 combined

class=wikitable style="font-size:95%;"
Season

! Date

! Location

! Race

rowspan=3 align=center | 19997 January 1999Schladming, Austriaalign=center | Slalom
10 January 1999Flachau, Austriaalign=center | Giant slalom
17 January 1999Wengen, Switzerlandalign=center | Slalom
rowspan=2 align=center | 200026 February 2000Yongpyong, South Koreaalign=center | Giant slalom
18 March 2000Bormio, Italyalign=center | Giant slalom
rowspan=4 align=center | 200114 January 2001Wengen, Switzerlandalign=center | Slalom
21 January 2001Kitzbühel, Austriaalign=center | Slalom
23 January 2001Schladming, Austriaalign=center | Slalom
11 March 2001Åre, Swedenalign=center | Slalom
rowspan=1 align=center | 200221 December 2001Kranjska Gora, Sloveniaalign=center | Giant slalom
rowspan=3 align=center | 20043 January 2004Flachau, Austriaalign=center | Giant slalom
18 January 2004Wengen, Switzerlandalign=center | Slalom
27 January 2004Schladming, Austriaalign=center | Slalom
rowspan=4 align=center | 20055 December 2004Beaver Creek, CO, USAalign=center | Slalom
14 January 2005Wengen, Switzerlandalign=center | Combined
align=center colspan=3 | 2005 World Championships
26 February 2005Kranjska Gora, Sloveniaalign=center | Giant slalom
rowspan=8 align=center | 200621 December 2005Kranjska Gora, Sloveniaalign=center | Giant slalom
7 January 2006Adelboden, Switzerlandalign=center | Giant slalom
13 January 2006Wengen, Switzerlandalign=center | Super combined
22 January 2006Kitzbühel, Austriaalign=center | Combined
3 February 2006Chamonix, Francealign=center | Super combined
align=center colspan=3 | 2006 Winter Olympics
10 March 2006Shiga Kōgen, Japanalign=center | Slalom
17 March 2006Åre, Swedenalign=center | Giant slalom
rowspan=7 align=center | 200712 November 2006Levi, Finlandalign=center | Slalom
6 January 2007Adelboden, Switzerlandalign=center | Giant slalom
23 January 2007Schladming, Austriaalign=center | Slalom
align=center colspan=3 | 2007 World Championships
3 March 2007Kranjska Gora, Sloveniaalign=center | Giant slalom
9 March 2007Kvitfjell, Norwayalign=center | Super combined
18 March 2007Lenzerheide, Switzerlandalign=center | Slalom
rowspan=1 align=center | 20089 December 2007Bad Kleinkirchheim, Austriaalign=center | Slalom
rowspan=4 align=center | 20097 December 2008Beaver Creek, CO, USAalign=center | Giant slalom
12 December 2008Val-d'Isère, Francealign=center | Super combined
10 January 2009Adelboden, Switzerlandalign=center | Giant slalom
13 March 2009Åre, Swedenalign=center | Giant slalom
rowspan=1 align=center | 201011 December 2009Val-d'Isère, Francealign=center | Super combined
rowspan=1 align=center | 201225 February 2012Crans Montana, Switzerlandalign=center | Super-G

World Championship results

class=wikitable style="text-align:center"

!   Year   !!  Age  !!  Slalom  !!  Giant 
 slalom  !! Super-G !! Downhill !! Combined !! Team event

1999205DNF2———rowspan=3|not run
200122style="background:silver;" | 2DNF2———
20032449———
200526style="background:gold;" | 1style="background:silver;" | 2style="background:#cc9966;" | 3—style="background:gold;" | 1style="background:silver;" |2
2007284DNF1—|—style="background:silver;" | 2style="background:gold;" |1
200930DSQ2style="background:silver;" | 25—DNF1cancelled
201132——4—5style="background:silver;" |2
201334139——DNF2—
201536DNF1DNF1————

Olympic results [[File:Olympic rings.svg|50px]]

class=wikitable style="text-align:center"

!   Year   !!  Age  !!  Slalom  !! Giant
 slalom  !! Super-G !! Downhill !! Combined

200223style="background:#cc9966;" | 34——style="background:#cc9966;" |3
200627style="background:gold;" | 1style="background:gold;" | 121—DNF
2010314614—6
201435DNF17———

Personal

His sister Carina Raich also is a ski racer. Benjamin Raich is married to skier Marlies Schild. They have three children together.

See also

External links

  • {{sports links}}
  • [https://www.fis-ski.com/DB/general/athlete-biography.html?sectorcode=AL&competitorid=49658&type=cups Benjamin Raich] World Cup standings at the International Ski Federation
  • {{Ski-DB|benjamin_raich_aut_rchbe}}
  • {{Official website|https://www.raich.at/}}
  • [https://archive.today/20130117154642/http://www.atomicsnow.com/en-US/Athletes/Alpine/Race/Benjamin_Raich.aspx Atomic Skis] – athletes – Benjamin Raich

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