Austrian Sports Legends
The greatest austrian sports people of all time — across 9 sports.
🎾 Tennis
🏎️ Formula 1
Austrian
Gerhard Berger
Driver
Austrian Formula 1 racing driver who competed from 1984-1997, winning 10 Grand Prix races and…
Austrian
Niki Lauda
Formula 1 Driver
Austrian Formula 1 racing driver who won three World Championships and became legendary for his…
Austrian
Jochen Rindt
Driver
Austrian racing driver and the only posthumous World Champion in Formula 1 history, killed in…
⛷️ Alpine Skiing
Austrian
Franz Klammer
Downhill
Austrian alpine ski racer nicknamed 'the Kaiser' who dominated downhill skiing in the mid-1970s.
Austrian
Hermann Maier
Downhill / Super-G / Giant Slalom
Austrian racer nicknamed 'the Herminator' who won four overall World Cup titles across a career…
Austrian
Marcel Hirscher
Slalom / Giant Slalom
Austrian alpine ski racer who dominated the World Cup circuit, winning a record 8 consecutive…
Austrian
Toni Sailer
All-round (Downhill / Giant Slalom / Slalom / Combined)
Austrian alpine ski racer who became the first person to win all three alpine events at a single…
Austrian
Annemarie Moser-Proll
Downhill / Giant Slalom
Austrian alpine racer who dominated 1970s women's skiing, setting a still-standing record of six…
Austrian
Michaela Dorfmeister
Downhill / Super-G
Austrian alpine skier who capped her career with a historic Olympic double at the 2006 Turin Games.
Austrian
Renate Gotschl
Downhill / Super-G
Austrian alpine skier nicknamed the 'Speed Queen', one of the most successful World Cup racers in…
Austrian
Benjamin Raich
Slalom / Giant Slalom
Austrian alpine skier nicknamed 'Der Blitz aus Pitz', a double Olympic champion at the 2006 Turin…
Austrian
Katharina Liensberger
Slalom / Giant Slalom
Austrian alpine skier whose breakout 2021 season saw her win two World Championship golds, denying…
🏂 Snowboard
Austrian
Anna Gasser
Big Air / Slopestyle Snowboarder
Austrian snowboarder who became Olympic champion in Big Air at PyeongChang 2018, making history as…
Austrian
Alessandro Hämmerle
Snowboard Cross Rider
Austrian snowboarder and the first Austrian man to win Olympic gold in snowboarding, who…
Austrian
Benjamin Karl
Parallel Slalom / Parallel Giant Slalom Rider
Austrian snowboarder and the most decorated parallel racer in the sport's history, who became the…
🏔️ Winter Sports
Austrian
Gregor Schlierenzauer
Ski Jumper
Austrian ski jumper who holds the all-time record for individual World Cup wins with 53, alongside…
Austrian
Thomas Morgenstern
Ski Jumper
Austrian ski jumper and three-time Olympic champion who won two World Cup overall titles and…
Austrian
Martin Koch
Ski Jumper
Austrian ski jumper and ski-flying specialist who won Olympic team gold at Turin 2006 and held…