From the slopes to TV experts: Felix Neureuther is still in demand.
After his professional career, he can now be seen and heard as a commentator.
Felix Neureuther
was born on March 26, 1984 in Munich.
His parents are the famous ski racers
Rosi Mittermaier
and
Christian Neureuther
.
Despite numerous injuries, he came back to the
top
.
Even as a toddler,
Felix Neureuther stood
on the boards.
His parents continuously supported their son's career.
Felix Neureuther has been a
TV sports expert
since 2019
and comments on alpine skiing events on ARD.
He also tried successfully
as a children's book author
with his friend
Bastian Schweinsteiger
.
An overview of his previous successes:
Felix Neureuther
was German champion nine times
He won the
World Cup
13 times
With the DSV team, he once achieved World Cup gold
Many people knew from childhood that Felix Neureuther would have to become a professional ski racer one day.
After all, the son of the former
ski racers
Rosi Mittermaier
and
Christian Neureuther did
his first exercises on skis at the age of two.
It was not immediately clear to Felix Neureuther that it would actually be ski racing, because the athletic Garmisch-Partenkirchener has a wide range of sports interests to this day.
In addition to the slopes, he was also active in
ice hockey
, tennis,
football
and golf.
The greatest potential and passion, however, lay in ski racing.
Interesting fact from his youth: Neureuther and the former national soccer player
Bastian Schweinsteiger
already crossed paths in the children's and youth races
.
But while Schweinsteiger devoted himself to
football
, Neureuther stayed with skiing.
This connection only resulted in a deep friendship and cooperation many years later.
As a 16-year-old Neureuther competed in his first
FIS races
and thus started his
professional career
as a ski racer.
Felix Neureuther has always been active for
SC Partenkirchen
.
As a ski racer into the new millennium
Neureuther started as a specialist in
giant slalom
and
slalom
.
Felix Neureuther's
professional career took off just in time for the 2000/2001 season
.
This year he not only competed for the first time in the German Junior Championship, but was also on the list for the seniors.
He won the title of German Youth Champion in 2003. He ran his first race in the Giant Slalom World Cup in 2003 in
Kranjska Gora
, but retired there early.
He
celebrated
his first
World Cup
victory in 2006.
A total of 13 times he was on the top podium in World Cup races, 48 times he was among the top three.
Neureuther competed twice at the
Olympics
.
At the 2010 Olympic Games in
Vancouver
, he finished eighth in giant slalom, but was eliminated in giant slalom.
At the 2014 Games in
Sochi
,
Russia
, he competed on the approach despite a car accident and also reached eighth place. With the DSV team, he achieved
team gold
in the Alpine World Ski Championships
in 2005
.
He achieved his best individual placement in the World Championships in 2013 in Schladming with silver in the slalom.
Despite numerous
injuries
, Neureuther repeatedly fought his way to the top of the world.
In 2019 he announced the end of his career as a
ski racer
.
Felix Neureuther Expert in TV, Internet and radio
The end of professional sport
did not
mean
the end of his career
for
Felix Neureuther
.
In the ski season he is a sought-after
TV sports expert
.
In 2019 he succeeded the Olympic champion Maria Höfl-Riesch and has since commented on the alpine skiing events on ARD and Bayerischer Rundfunk (BR).
His expertise is also in demand on the radio and on social media, although his field of activity goes beyond skiing.
Among other things, he was used as a co-commentator on the radio station Bayern 1 for a Bundesliga match of FC Bayern-Munich.
With his foundation, Felix Neureuther is committed to the physical and mental advancement of children and young people.
On the associated portal "Move yourself smart" he is supported by his childhood friend, ex-national soccer player Bastian Schweinsteiger, among others.
The two competed in ski races when they were children.
In 2017, Neureuther and
Bastian Schweinsteiger
jointly created the children's book “On the slopes - get set, go!” In 2020, “Two friends in football fever” followed.
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Felix Neureuther lives with his family in Garmisch-Partenkirchen.
He has been married to Miriam Neureuther, née Gössner, a former biathlete, since 2013.
They have been parents to a daughter since 2017 and to a son since 2020.
