Arnold Martignoni

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Arnold Martignoni
EHC St. Moritz 1928

Arnold Giovanni Martignoni (born May 19, 1901 in St. Moritz ; † March 9, 1984 in Samedan ) was a Swiss ice hockey goalkeeper .

Life

Martignoni was born the son of Luigi Ferdinando Martignoni (* February 5, 1870; † December 15, 1944) in St. Moritz and grew up there. From 1917 to 1920 he completed a successful apprenticeship as a plumber in the teaching centers of the city of Bern. In 1932 he married Orsina Tgetgel (born April 7, 1905, † May 23, 1974 in Samedan).

Career

Arnold Martignoni has been an active ice hockey player at EHC St. Moritz since he was ten . After a stay in the USA (1924 to 1925) he was goalkeeper for the Swiss national ice hockey team from 1926 to 1928 . With this Martignoni won the gold medal at the European championship in 1926 in Davos . He also took part in the 1928 Winter Olympics and won the bronze medal with the team. Since the Olympic tournament also served as a world and European championship , Switzerland was also third in the World Cup and, by removing the Olympic champion Canada from the European ranking, it was runner-up in Europe. Martignoni ended his sporting career in 1929 due to a training accident in which he was accidentally hit by a puck in the eye.

Achievements and Awards

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ hcdavos.ch, History: From Guest and student club for HC Davos
  2. ^ Müller, Stephan: International Ice Hockey Encyclopaedia: 1904-2005 . Norderstedt: Books on Demand. 2005. ISBN 3-8334-4189-5 . P. 170.
  3. ↑ olympic.org, All the Medalists since 1894: St. Moritz 1928
personal data
SURNAME Martignoni, Arnold
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Martignoni, Arnoldo Giovanni
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Swiss ice hockey player
DATE OF BIRTH May 19, 1901
PLACE OF BIRTH St. Moritz
DATE OF DEATH March 9, 1984
Place of death Samedan