Marco Büchel
Alpine skiing, Olympic athlete
1971 –
Who is Marco Büchel?
Marco Büchel 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 to set a new record as the oldest winner of a World Cup race; the following 13 months Cuche extended this record 6 times, finally with his last career victory in the Super-G of Crans Montana on 24 February 2012 to 37 years, 192 days.
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.
Büchel retired following the Super-G race at Garmisch-Partenkirchen 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.
He had also appeared on the Amazing Race 18 as contestants had to give him the correct answer for calculating the Length of Liechtenstein.
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- Born
- Nov 4, 1971
Walenstadt - Also known as
- Marco Buchel
- Smiley
- Nationality
- Liechtenstein
- Profession
- Lived in
- Triesenberg
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on July 23, 2013
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