Marcel Hirscher to Race Again Next Season
19th June 2025
Last modified on June 23rd, 2025
He has secured FIS Wildcards to enter races and has his eyes set on the Milan-Cortina Winter Olympics next February.
The 35-year old is one of the alpine skiing’s greatest athletes.
He is an eight-time consecutive overall World Cup champion.
He had 67 World Cup wins and two Olympic gold medals
He retired in 2019 after representing Austria and last season raced for the Netherlands, the nationality of his mother.
However, he tore is ACL in training and withdrew from competition.
He is now recovered.
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He underwent surgery and over 1,000 hours of rehab and physical training.
The journey, he says, was both physically demanding and emotionally clarifying.
“In the end, two questions remained: What do I want from life? What does life want from me?” Hirscher reflected.
“Even in difficult moments, my answer never changed: I want to race again.”
The International Ski and Snowboard Federation, FIS, has granted Hirscher 17 remaining wildcards originally allocated last season when he first announced plans to return.
Although injury curtailed that attempt, FIS has chosen to uphold the unused wildcards for this season that allows him to start in any World Cup race without needing to qualify through current FIS points.
“At the moment, I’m shifting from the rehabilitation phase into full athlete mode, with more extensive sessions and higher intensity,” Hirscher says.
“Training hard again is bringing me a lot of joy. It’s shaping up to be a very athletic summer.”
While no firm date has been set for his first race, Hirscher plans to return to snow training in September, pending final medical approval.
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