Daniel Traxler Retires

Daniel Traxler is ending his career! With the 30-year-old Upper Austrian, another ÖSV ski cross athlete announces his retirement after Mathias Graf from Vorarlberg.

With two World Cup podium places (2nd/3rd) in Idre Fjäll (SWE) and sixth place in the overall World Cup, the 2018/19 season was the most successful in Daniel Traxler's career. In addition to the two podium places, he also achieved ten other top-ten results in the World Cup.

The Upper Austrian also achieved second place in the overall European Cup rankings in 2014/15. However, Traxler has also had to deal with injuries throughout his career. In 2016, he suffered a broken femur and in 2017 and 2022 he was slowed down by disc problems.

But Traxler never let himself be deterred from his path and started last winter with three top eight places before he suffered fractures of the transverse processes in the lumbar region in a fall in Nakiska (CAN) and had to end the season early. "After last season, retirement was not really an option. But during the summer training I noticed that I simply lacked the last few percent to start from scratch again and tackle another comeback. That's why I decided to end my career," explains Daniel Traxler .

"Despite the injury-related setbacks, I had a very exciting and wonderful time in which I was able to learn a lot and celebrate some successes. It was a time that I will certainly always look back on with a smile. I would like to thank my family, my partners and sponsors, the ÖSV and the police, who have always given me great support," adds Traxler, who recently became a father for the first time (son Luis was born in July) and will begin his police service in Mondsee at the beginning of October.

"With Daniel Traxler and Mathias Graf, two outstanding athletes who were always capable of top results in the World Cup have ended their careers. With their hard and consistent work, they have made it to the top of the world and have thus also taken on a role model function for young athletes. I would like to thank both of them for the good cooperation and wish them all the best for their private and professional future," said Markus Gutenbrunner , the sports director for ski cross at the ÖSV.