World Championships. His first Olympics were in 1988 at Calgary, but he did not win a medal. In 1992 at Albertville, he won silver medals in Super G and giant slalom – the first medals for the Grand Duchy at the Winter Olympics, and Luxembourg's first Olympic medal since Josy Barthel's gold in the 1500 metres in 1952. Girardelli won eleven World Championship medals, including four golds: (slalom at Saalbach in 1991 and combined at Crans-Montana in 1987, Vail in 1989, and Sierra Nevada in 1996). His final World Cup race was in the downhill race at Val Gardena on 20 December 1996; he had announced his intention to start the next day in another downhill, but suffered a new knee injury. After failing to start in the following races, he announced his retirement from international competition in January 1997 at age 33. Girardelli is an honorary citizen of Bulgarian ski resort Bansko. Since 2015, he has been serving as an advisor to the Minister of Tourism of Bulgaria, Nikolina Angelkova, on the matters of winter tourism. On 17 December 2018 Girardelli disclosed that he holds the majoritary share of Yulen AD, the controversial operator of the ski zone of Bansko. He is an organiser of skiing events in several European winter sports resorts, and also in Portillo, Chile. Since 2005 he is an IBO for kids fashion in sports, called »Marc Girardelli Skiwear«. World Cup results Season standings ^ Season titles Race victories 46 total – (3 downhill, 9 super G, 7 giant slalom, 16 slalom, 11 combined) 100 podiums 1 2 World championship results The Super-G in 1993 was cancelled after multiple weather delays. Olympic results See also Ski World Cup Most podiums & Top 10 results References External links Marc Girardelli at SkiWorldCup.org MarcGirardelli.com – personal web site 1963 births Living people People from Lustenau Luxembourgian male alpine skiers Austrian male alpine skiers Olympic alpine skiers of Luxembourg Olympic silver medalists for Luxembourg Alpine skiers at the 1988 Winter Olympics Alpine skiers at the 1992 Winter Olympics Alpine skiers at the 1994 Winter Olympics Naturalised citizens of Luxembourg Austrian people of Italian descent Olympic medalists in alpine skiing FIS Alpine Ski World Cup champions Medalists at the 1992 Winter Olympics Luxembourgian people of Austrian descent Sportspeople from Vorarlberg