Marco Büchel

Medal record
Marco Büchel
Competitor for Liechtenstein
Men's Alpine Skiing
World Championships
Silver	1999 Vail	Giant Slalom

Marco Büchel (born November 4, 1971, in Walenstadt, Switzerland) 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 &1000000000000003600000036 years, &1000000000000007500000075 days. This has since been surpassed by Didier Cuche, who won a downhill race at the same location on 22 January 2011.

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 (Germany) 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.

Results

• World Cup
  • 2003: 2nd in Super-G

• World Championships
  • 1999: Silver Medal in Giant slalom

• Swiss Championships
  • 1999/2000: Champion in Downhill, Giant Slalom, Combination
  • 2000/2001: Champion in Parallel Slalom

World Cup victories

Date	Location	Race
13 February 2003	Garmisch-Partenkirchen	Super-G
17 December 2005	Val Gardena	Downhill
25 November 2006	Lake Louise	Downhill
18 January 2008	Kitzbühel	Super-G

External links

• Marco-Buechel.li - official site