After 22 years in the World Cup
German ski record holder ends career
March 1, 2026 – 1:21 p.mReading time: 1 min.
Romed Baumann competed in a total of 387 races in the Alpine World Cup. But now it’s over – also somewhat involuntarily.
The 40-year-old ski racer Romed Baumann ended his active career after his last downhill run in Garmisch-Partenkirchen. With 167 World Cup downhill runs, the 2021 World Cup runner-up in Super-G holds the record in this discipline.
Baumann originally planned to start the Super-G on the Kandahar on Sunday, but the race fell victim to fog. After his final appearance, the veteran admitted: “I didn’t risk anything, I didn’t trust myself to go up there again.”
The native Austrian switched to the German association in 2019 and formed a strong downhill team with Thomas Dreßen, Andreas Sander and Josef Ferstl. This season, the veteran only made it into the top 20 in the World Cup twice and also missed Olympic qualification.
Baumann celebrated his greatest successes in the now abolished super combination, in which he achieved his only two World Cup victories. In 2013 he won World Championship bronze in this discipline before reaching his second World Championship podium in 2021 as a German starter with silver in the Super-G.
