Gottlieb Perren
Gottlieb Perren | |
nation | Switzerland |
birthday | April 14, 1926 |
place of birth | Zermatt |
date of death | May 10, 2014 |
Place of death | Zermatt |
Career | |
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discipline |
Nordic skiing, alpine skiing |
society | Zermatt ski club |
Gottlieb Perren (born April 14, 1926 in Zermatt ; † May 10, 2014 there ) was a Swiss Nordic and Alpine skier and mountain guide . He took part in the Winter Olympics in 1948 and 1952 and after his career in skiing became President of the Swiss Mountain Guide Association. His brother Bernhard Perren was also a skier and mountain guide.
biography
From the mid-1940s, Perren achieved top placings at the Swiss ski championships: in 1946, he was second in the junior class in special and combination ski jumping and third in cross-country skiing as well as in the four combination of ski jumping, cross-country skiing, downhill and slalom . In the years 1947 and 1948 he reached third place in the Nordic Combined for the seniors . At his first major international event, the 1948 Winter Olympics in St. Moritz , he was 18th in Nordic combined and 43rd in 18 km cross-country skiing.
From 1949 Perren concentrated on the alpine disciplines. At the Swiss Ski Championships in 1949 he won the downhill in the Senior I class with the fourth fastest time of the day, 6.4 seconds behind the best elite rider and Swiss champion Ralph Olinger , and was part of the team at the 1950 World Championships in Aspen , but never played there. At the Olympic Winter Games in Oslo in 1952 , he started in the downhill, which he finished in tenth place. Four years later - after the end of his active career - he was a member of the Swiss team's supervisory staff at the 1956 Winter Olympics in Cortina d'Ampezzo .
Apart from ski racing, Perren worked as a mountain guide . He was president of the Swiss Mountain Guide Association .
Gottlieb Perren passed away peacefully on May 10, 2014.
successes
winter Olympics
- St. Moritz 1948 : 18th Nordic Combined, 43rd 18 km cross-country skiing
- Oslo 1952 : 10th departure
Web links
- Gottlieb Perren in the Sports-Reference database (English; archived from the original )
Individual evidence
- ^ Karl Erb : Fascination Downhill. SV Internationale / Schweizer Verlagshaus, Zurich 1985, ISBN 3-7263-6389-0 , p. 52.
- ↑ 40th Swiss ski race in Davos. In: Yearbook of the Swiss Ski Association. Volume XLI, 1947. pp. 72-78.
- ↑ 41st Swiss ski race in Wengen. In: Yearbook of the Swiss Ski Association. Volume XLI, 1947. pp. 80-85.
- ↑ 42nd Swiss Ski Race St. Moritz. In: Yearbook of the Swiss Ski Association. Volume XLII, 1948. pp. 73-79.
- ^ Arnold Kaech : Olympic Winter Games St. Moritz 1948. In: Yearbook of the Swiss Ski Association. Volume XLII, 1948. pp. 6-34 and 65-70.
- ↑ 43rd Swiss Ski Race Gstaad. In: Yearbook of the Swiss Ski Association. Volume XLIII, 1949. pp. 55-61.
- ^ Marc Hodler : The Alpine World Championships in Aspen. In: Yearbook of the Swiss Ski Association. Volume XLIV, 1950. pp. 22-31.
- ↑ Willy Wülser: Around Cortina d'Ampezzo. In: Yearbook of the Swiss Ski Association. Volume L, 1956. p. 12.
- ↑ Toni Gobbi : UIAGM In: The Alpine Journal 1966. S. 147.
personal data | |
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SURNAME | Perren, Gottlieb |
BRIEF DESCRIPTION | Swiss skiers and mountain guides |
DATE OF BIRTH | April 14, 1926 |
PLACE OF BIRTH | Zermatt , Switzerland |
DATE OF DEATH | May 10, 2014 |
Place of death | Zermatt , Switzerland |