Marco Büchel

Marco Büchel (born 4 November 1971) is a Liechtensteiner retired alpine ski racer. He participated in a record-tying six Winter Olympics, starting in 1992 and ending in 2010.

Life Büchel was born in Walenstadt, Switzerland, is from and attended school in Balzers. He has since lived in Triesenberg.

On 18 January 2008, Büchel won a World Cup Super-G race at Kitzbühel, and set a then record as the oldest winner of a World Cup race at the age of . This has since been surpassed by Didier Cuche, who won a downhill race at the same location on 22 January 2011 to set a new record as the oldest winner of a World Cup race; the following 13 months Cuche extended this record 6 times, finally with his last career victory in the Super-G of Crans Montana on 24 February 2012 to .

Büchel is featured in the OL-floka music video for the 1994 Winter Olympics. He's seen climbing upwards in the combined slalom course, after missing a gate.

Büchel retired following the Super-G race at Garmisch-Partenkirchen (Germany) on 11 March 2010. He celebrated his last race by racing not in the regular catsuit, but by wearing a tuxedo with black Bermuda shorts. As he skied down the course, Büchel slowed down many times to "high-five" various trainers.

He had also appeared on The Amazing Race 18 as contestants had to give him the correct answer for calculating the Length of Liechtenstein. Since 2010, he has been a sports commentator at ZDF.

Results World Cup 2003: 2nd in Super-G World Championships 1999: Silver Medal in giant slalom Swiss Championships 1999/2000: Champion in Downhill, giant slalom, Combination 2000/2001: Champion in Parallel slalom

World Cup victories Date Location Race 23 February 2003 Garmisch-Partenkirchen Super-G 17 December 2005 Val Gardena Downhill 25 November 2006 Lake Louise Downhill 18 January 2008 Kitzbühel Super-G