Career
After winning Junior World Championships in both slalom and giant slalom, Raich made his World Cup debut in March 1996. He scored his first victory in 1999, in slalom. Raich, who became better at faster specialities such as super-G and downhill with age also, in 2005 barely missed out on the overall World Cup title, placing second to American Bode Miller.
Throughout his career Raich has been known for his consistency which led to him to second places in the overall world cup in 2005, 2007, 2008, 2009 and 2010 (narrowly missing out the titles in both 2007 and 2009 by 13 points and 2 points respectively).
His last top three finish came in early March 2015 in a giant slalom race in Garmisch-Partenkirchen that came to be one of his very last races in the alpine world cup. On September 10th, 2015, he announced his retirement.
Season standings
Season titles
9 titles: 1 overall, 2 giant slalom, 3 slalom, 3 combined
Individual races
36 total: 1 super-G, 14 giant slalom, 14 slalom, 7 combined
Benjamin Raich is married to skier Marlies Schild.