Mario Matt hangs skis to the nail

In a press conference in & nbsp; St. Anton which was also the big boss of Wunderteam & nbsp; Peter Schr & ouml; cksnadel, the Austrian slalom & nbsp; Mario Matt after sixteen seasons in the Great Cross has announced his retirement dall''attivit & agrave ;.

Thursday 12 March 2015 4 minutes reading time

Born April 9, 1979, a native of the Austrian Tyrol, Mario Matt takes the first important result at the World Juniors in 1998 when he won the & rsquo; silver behind compatriot Benni Raich in slalom, the specialty & agrave; that will become & agrave; his favorite, although in the World Championships of & rsquo; following year competed in all four specialties & agrave; never ending below the seventh. In the European Cup had already & agrave; debut in 1997, in 2000 obtained his only three wins in the continental event and takes home the trophy specialty & agrave ;. In World Cup debuts December 21, 1999 in Kranjska Gora, just the resort & agrave; where he could play his 194th and final Cup race if you were to qualify for the finals of M & eacute; ribel. On that day sixteen years ago and & ograve; points now to finishing seventeenth, but little more & ugrave; a month later, on home snow in Kitzb & uuml; hel, in his third Cup race immediately wins the victory with bib number 47. Since then & egrave; a succession of triumphs: 15 races of the World Cup, 14 in slalom, l & rsquo; last December 15, 2013 in Val d & rsquo; Is & egrave; re, and one in super combined, 12 seconds (one in giant) and 15 third places, 31 others placings in the top ten for a total of 73, l & rsquo; last & egrave; third place in the finals in Lenzerheide of 16 March 2014, the second in slalom in 2007. But & egrave; especially in large events with medals up for grabs that SuperMario has outdone s & eacute ;: has participated in eight editions of the World & egrave; was gold in slalom in 2001 and 2007, always in slalom bronze in 2013 and silver in combined in 2001. Finally, on February 22, 2014, comes what & egrave; in effect his last but also the most & ugrave; important, l & rsquo; Olympic gold in slalom in Sochi: Matt succeeds in & rsquo; intent in what was only his second edition of the Winter Games Since & eacute; in 2002 he had not attended to injury and in 2010 had failed to qualify. Although not a style template for that way of skiing with his head sunk between his shoulders, Mario & egrave; was an extraordinary champion, who mancher & agrave; much to the White Circus and to all fans.

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