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Hermann Maier

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Hermann Maier (born 7 December 1972) is an Austrian former World Cup champion alpine ski racer and Olympic gold medalist. Nicknamed the "Herminator", Maier ranks among the greatest alpine ski racers in history, with four overall World Cup titles (1998, 2000, 2001, 2004), two Olympic gold medals (both in 1998), and three World Championship titles (1999: 2, and 2005). His 54 World Cup race victories – 24 super-G, 15 downhills, 14 giant slaloms, and 1 combined – rank third on the men's all-time list behind Ingemar Stenmark's 86 victories and Marcel Hirscher's 67 victories. Until 2023 he held the record for the most points in one season by a male alpine skier, with 2000 points from the 2000 season. Read more on Wikipedia

His biography is available in different languages on Wikipedia. Hermann Maier is the 19th most popular skier (down from 17th in 2019), the 656th most popular biography from Austria (down from 629th in 2019) and the 5th most popular Austrian Skier.

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Among SKIERS

Among skiers, Hermann Maier ranks 19 out of 817. Before him are Jiří Raška, Marc Girardelli, Sonja Edström, Gustav Thöni, Yukio Kasaya, and Noriaki Kasai. After him are Hanni Wenzel, Juha Mieto, Bjørn Wirkola, Karl Schranz, Toralf Engan, and Gunnar Eriksson.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1972, Hermann Maier ranks 94. Before him are Sandra Kim, Noriaki Kasai, Željko Joksimović, Takashi Umezawa, Manfred Weber, and Brandon Teena. After him are Chiara Mastroianni, Nina Badrić, Samantha Smith, Severina, Audrey Azoulay, and Alejandro Amenábar.

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In Austria

Among people born in Austria, Hermann Maier ranks 656 out of 1,424. Before him are Franz de Paula Adam von Waldstein (1759), Otto Erich Deutsch (1883), Karl Buresch (1878), Frederick I, Duke of Austria (1175), Franz Welser-Möst (1960), and Countess Franziska Kinsky of Wchinitz and Tettau (1813). After him are Barbara Frischmuth (1941), Bénédict Morel (1809), Harald Ertl (1948), Helene Engelmann (1898), Carl Moll (1861), and Alexandru Vaida-Voevod (1872).

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Among SKIERS In Austria

Among skiers born in Austria, Hermann Maier ranks 5. Before him are Toni Sailer (1935), Franz Klammer (1953), Annemarie Moser-Pröll (1953), and Marc Girardelli (1963). After him are Karl Schranz (1938), Baldur Preiml (1939), Egon Zimmermann (1939), Christl Haas (1943), Erika Mahringer (1924), Othmar Schneider (1928), and Trude Beiser (1927).

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