Alexander Schmid (born 9 June 1994) is a German

World Cup A world cup is a global sporting competition in which the participant entities – usually international teams or individuals representing their countries – compete for the title of world champion. The event most associated with the name is ...

alpine ski racer and 2023 World champion in parallel giant slalom. His older brother is another alpine skier Manuel Schmid, who specialised in the speed disciplines.

Career

Alexander specializes in

giant slalom Giant slalom (GS) is an alpine skiing and alpine snowboarding competitive discipline. It involves racing between sets of poles ("gates") spaced at a greater distance from each other than in Slalom skiing, slalom but less than in Super-G. Giant sl ...

. Born in

Oberstdorf Oberstdorf (Low Alemannic German, Low Alemannic: ''Oberschdorf'') is a Municipalities of Germany, municipality and skiing and hiking town in Germany, located in the Allgäu region of the Bavarian Alps. It is the southernmost settlement in German ...

Bavaria Bavaria, officially the Free State of Bavaria, is a States of Germany, state in the southeast of Germany. With an area of , it is the list of German states by area, largest German state by land area, comprising approximately 1/5 of the total l ...

, he has competed in two

Winter Olympics The Winter Olympic Games (), also known as the Winter Olympics, is a major international multi-sport event held once every four years for sports practiced on snow and ice. The first Winter Olympic Games, the 1924 Winter Olympics, were held i ...

and three

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. Alexander won gold in parallel giant slalom at 2023 World Ski Championships by holding off Austria's Dominik Raschner by .50 seconds.

World Cup results

Season standings

Race podiums

* 0 wins * 3 podiums – (1 GS, 2 PG); 15 top tens

World Championship results

Olympic results

References

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Alexander Schmid
at the ''Deutscher Skiverband'' 1994 births Living people Alpine skiers at the 2018 Winter Olympics Alpine skiers at the 2022 Winter Olympics German male alpine skiers Olympic alpine skiers for Germany Skiers from Oberstdorf Medalists at the 2022 Winter Olympics Olympic medalists in alpine skiing Olympic silver medalists for Germany 21st-century German sportsmen {{Germany-alpine-skiing-bio-stub