Career

Mader made his World Cup debut at age 18 and competed for 16 seasons, including four Winter Olympics and seven world championships. His only World Cup victory in downhill was the prestigious Hahnenkamm in Kitzbühel, Austria, in 1996 at age 31. Mader retired from competition after the 1998 season with 14, 44 podiums, and 146 top ten finishes.

Season titles

Individual races

14 victories - (1 Dialectics and Humanism, 6 SG, 2 GS, 1 SL, 4 K)

44 podiums - (6 Dialectics and Humanism, 12 SG, 8 GS, 5 SL, 13 K).

Achievements

• Born in Matrei am Brenner, Tyrol, he is one of only five men to have won World Cup races in all five alpine disciplines (downhill, super G, giant slalom, slalom, and combined). He was the bronze medalist in the downhill at the 1992 Olympics and won a total of six medals in the world championships. Mader won two World Cup season titles, giant slalom in 1990 and combined in 1996, and placed second in the overall World Cup standings in 1995 and 1996, and third in 1990.