Matthias Lanzinger

Matthias Lanzinger

Matthias Lanzinger is an Austrian skier who was born at 9th of December 1980 in Abtenau, Salzburg. In the age of 24 years, he got the chance to start his promising career in the World Cup and he did a great job there.

In 2008, when he was just on the way to become a well-known, successful sportsman, Matthias Lanzinger had a terrible accident.

In the World Cup Super-G in Kvitfjell, Norway, his slower leg broke several times, and the emergency medical service wasn’t able to bring him to the next hospital in time, so his slower leg had to be amputated.

From that day on, his life suddenly changed completely.

But then Matthias learned to live with this new aspect in his life, and three years after the crash he decided to start in the skiing World Cup for handicapped people.

Now, he is an example for a man who doesn’t gave up, even though he suffered a hard set back and he can be an ideal for people with the same fate.

Today, five years after the moment who changed the life of a young ambitioned Austrian sportsman, he is very successful in his new sport and he also works as an expert in the Austrian TV.