Andreas Däscher

Andreas Däscher
nation	Switzerland
birthday	9th June 1927 (age 93)
place of birth	Clavadel , Davos ,  Switzerland
job	Plumbing and heating fitter
Career
society	SC miles
National squad	since 1948
status	resigned
End of career	1960
Ski jumping world cup / A class jumping
Four Hills Tournament	28. ( 1954/55 )

Andreas Däscher (born June 9, 1927 in Clavadel , Davos ) is a former Swiss ski jumper .

Career

Däscher started ski jumping in 1943. At the age of 20 he first took part in the 1948 Winter Olympics in St. Moritz . He reached 17th place in jumping from the normal hill. At the ski flying week in Oberstdorf in 1950, he took 2nd place with a best distance of 130 meters. He was able to repeat this success in 1953 in Bad Mitterndorf and in 1958 in Oberstdorf. Four years later he reached the Olympic Winter Games in Oslo in 1952 , tied with the Yugoslav Janez Polda in 16th place. Shortly before the games, Däscher took part in the Four Hills Tournament for the first time and reached 21st place in Innsbruck . On January 8, 1955 he was in Bischofshofen at the end of 13th. At the 1956 Winter Olympics and the associated Nordic World Ski Championships in Cortina d'Ampezzo , Däscher was able to jump into the top ten for the first time and reached 6th place. On December 29, 1956 he was able to achieve his best individual result in Oberstdorf with 5th place. For the Four Hills Tournament 1959/60 Däscher appeared again in Oberstdorf and Innsbruck and finished the jumping in 14th and 11th place. He ended his active ski jumping career when he started at the 1960 Winter Olympics in Squaw Valley . There he reached 20th place on the normal hill.

Däscher was Swiss champion nine times in the course of his career.

Postage stamp of the GDR with the Däscher technique

Däscher is also known for the development of the so-called Däscher technique . In the 1950s, he further developed the so-called Kongsberg technique in such a way that the arms are placed on the body in the direction of the legs instead of stretching forwards. This technique was the standard in ski jumping until Jan Boklöv developed the V style in 1985.

Andreas Däscher is the son of Hans Däscher , a path maker in Davos, and the Italian Ursina Däscher, née Nerina Mottolini. Professionally, Däscher was an independent plumbing and heating fitter in Meilen for many years .

statistics

Four Hills Tournament placements

season	space	Points
1954/55	28.	194.7
1956/57	52.	218.5
1959/60	37.	414.5

Web links

• Andreas Däscher in the database of the International Ski Association (English)
• Andreas Däscher in the database of Sports-Reference (English; archived from the original )
• Thomas Gmür: Däscher, Andreas. In: Historical Lexicon of Switzerland .

Individual evidence

1. ^ Ski Jumping at the 1952 Oslo Winter Games: Men's Normal Hill, Individual . www.sports-reference.com. Retrieved June 7, 2009.
2. ↑ Ski Jumping - History . www.olympic.org. Retrieved June 7, 2009.
3. ↑ Short film “Im Adlerstil gfloge” on the Däscher technology ( memento of the original from November 22, 2015 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was automatically inserted and not yet checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice.