Felix Neureuther

German alpine ski racer and the most successful male World Cup skier in his country's history, son of Olympic champion Rosi Mittermaier and World Cup winner Christian Neureuther.

Born on 26 March 1984 in Munich-Pasing, West Germany, Felix Neureuther grew up immersed in alpine skiing as the son of two of the sport's most celebrated figures: his mother, Rosi Mittermaier, won two Olympic gold medals and the overall World Cup title in 1976, while his father, Christian Neureuther, won six World Cup slalom races and finished runner-up in the World Cup slalom standings twice. Felix made his own World Cup debut in January 2003, aged 18. Neureuther specialized in the technical disciplines of slalom and giant slalom, winning his first World Cup race in the Kitzbühel slalom in 2010. He went on to claim 13 World Cup victories across a 17-year career — 11 in slalom, one in giant slalom and one in parallel slalom — including a landmark 2014 giant slalom win in Adelboden, Switzerland, only the second such German victory in that discipline's World Cup history. At the FIS Alpine World Ski Championships, Neureuther won a gold medal in the team event in 2005 at Bormio, followed by an individual silver in the slalom and a team bronze at the 2013 Schladming Championships, and further individual slalom bronzes in 2015 and 2017. Despite competing at three Winter Olympics, in 2006, 2010 and 2014, Olympic success eluded him, with two eighth-place finishes in the giant slalom his best results. Hampered by persistent back problems in his later seasons, Neureuther retired in April 2019 after finishing seventh in his final race at the World Cup Finals in Soldeu, Andorra, closing out a career recognized as one of the finest technical skiing careers in German history, with 13 World Cup wins and 47 podium finishes.

Technically precise slalom and giant slalom specialist

One of Germany's finest technical skiers, continuing a celebrated family skiing dynasty