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Place of Birth: Schliersee, Bavaria, Germany
About Markus Wasmeier
- Markus Wasmeier (born 9 September 1963 is a former World Cup alpine ski racer from Germany.
- He was world champion and twice Olympic champion.At the 1985 World Championships at Bormio, Italy, he won the Giant Slalom at age 21, before recording a World Cup victory. Born in Schliersee, Bavaria, West Germany, Wasmeier's first World Cup Race was on February 5, 1983, when he ´finished 49th in the Downhill Race at St.
- Anton am Arlberg.
- He gained his first World Cup points in January 1984 by capturing 10th place in the Alpine Combined at Garmisch-Partenkirchen, and that December, he achieved his first podium in (Giant Slalom at Sestiere, Italy).
- In a downhill race on February 1987 at Furano, Japan, he broke two vertebrae and missed the rest of the season. Wasmeier won a total of nine World Cup races, starting with two victories on 9 February 1986, in the Combined and Super-G events at Morzine, France. The surprising result of double Olympic gold for Wasmeier at age thirty gained him the title of 1994 "Sportsman of the Year" in Germany,
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