Urs Räber
Alpine skier | |
Disciplines | Downhill and Combined |
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Club | Skiclub Wilderswil/Grindelwald |
Born | Grindelwald, Switzerland | November 28, 1958
Height | 5 ft 7 in (171 cm) |
World Cup debut | 1978 |
Retired | 1984 |
Website | http://www.hotel-schoenbuehl.ch/ |
Olympics | |
Teams | Switzerland |
Medals | 0 (0 gold) |
World Championships | |
Teams | Switzerland |
Medals | 0 (0 gold) |
World Cup | |
Seasons | 6 |
Wins | 2 |
Podiums | 6 |
Overall titles | 0 |
Discipline titles | 1 Downhill title (1984) |
Urs Räber (born 28 November 1958) is a former Swiss alpine skier, who won the 1984 World Cup in Downhill skiing.
Raber also competed in two Olympic Downhill events. Firstly at the 1980 Winter Olympics in Lake Placid, where he finished 18th in the Olympic downhill,[1] and then in the 1984 Winter Olympics in Sarajevo where he finished fifth in the Olympic downhill.[2]
Raber now owns the Hotel Schönbuhl in Wilderswil near Interlaken in the Swiss canton of Berne.[3]
World Cup Downhill victories[]
Date | Location | Race |
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December 18, 1983 | Val Gardena, Italy | Downhill |
January 7, 1984 | Laax, Switzerland | Downhill |
References[]
- ^ Urs Raber at Sports Reference Urs Räber Biography and Statistics
- ^ http://www.ski-db.com/db/profiles/rbrur.asp Urs Räber Results
- ^ http://www.hotel-schoenbuehl.ch/en/info.html Hotel Schoenbuehl Informations
External links[]
- Urs Räber at Ski-DB Alpine Ski Database
- Urs Räber at the International Ski Federation
- Urs Räber at Olympics at Sports-Reference.com (archived)
- Urs Räber's Hotel
- Photo of Urs[permanent dead link]
Categories:
- 1958 births
- Living people
- Swiss male alpine skiers
- Olympic alpine skiers of Switzerland
- Alpine skiers at the 1980 Winter Olympics
- Alpine skiers at the 1984 Winter Olympics
- FIS Alpine Ski World Cup champions
- Swiss alpine skiing biography stubs