He is an alpine ski racer, who won four overall World Cup titles (1998, 2000, 2001, 2004), two Olympic gold medals (in 1998), and three World Championship titles (1999, 1999 and 2005). Who is he?
Hermann Maier Hermann Maier Hermann Maier (born 7 December 1972) is an Austrian former World Cup champion alpine ski racer and Olympic gold medalist. Nicknamed the "Herminator", Maier ranks among the greatest alpine ski racers in history, with four overall World Cup titles (1998, 2000, 2001, 2004), two Olympic gold medals (both in 1998), and three World Championship titles (1999: 2, and 2005). His 54 World Cup race victories – 24 super-G, 15 downhills, 14 giant slaloms, and 1 combined – rank third on the men's all-time list behind Ingemar Stenmark's 86 victories and Marcel Hirscher's 60 victories. , he holds the
1998–99 FIS Alpine Ski World Cup in April 1999 at just 26 years old, having already won 11 season titles (2 overall, 4 downhill, 5 Super G). 1998–99 FIS Alpine Ski World Cup The 33rd World Cup season began in October 1998 in Sölden, Austria, and concluded at the World Cup finals at Sierra Nevada, Spain, in March 1999. The overall winners were Lasse Kjus of Norway, his second, and Alexandra Meissnitzer of Austria, her first. A break in the schedule was for the 1999 World Championships, held in Vail and Beaver Creek, Colorado, US, from February 2–14, 1999. Two-time (and defending) World Cup overall winner