Bernadette Zurbriggen
Bernadette Zurbriggen 
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 Switzerland
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| birthday | 30th August 1956 (age 63) | ||||||||||||||||
| place of birth | Saas-Grund , Switzerland | ||||||||||||||||
| size | 175 cm | ||||||||||||||||
| Weight | 70 kg | ||||||||||||||||
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Downhill , giant slalom , slalom , combination |
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| status | resigned | ||||||||||||||||
| End of career | 1980 | ||||||||||||||||
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Bernadette Zurbriggen (born August 30, 1956 in Saas-Grund ) is a former Swiss ski racer and three-time Olympian (1972, 1976, 1980).
Career
She first attracted a lot of attention on January 30, 1971, when she - at the age of 14 - won an "FIS-B" giant slalom in front of the Austrian Ingrid Eberle in Arosa .
In her career during the 1970s, Zurbriggen won seven World Cup races: five times in the downhill and once each in the giant slalom and in the alpine combination . She was also one of the best female ski racers in the overall World Cup.
1st Bernadette Zurbriggen, 2nd Ingrid Schmid-Gfölner , 3rd Marie-Theres Nadig
At both the 1972 Olympic Games in Sapporo and the 1976 Olympic Games in Innsbruck , she finished seventh in the downhill. At the 1980 Olympic Games , she was eleventh in Lake Placid in February .
According to the Neue Zürcher Zeitung , Bernadette Zurbriggen was a pioneer in the use of men's skis when the then 19-year-old won on January 15, 1975 in Schruns on 2.23 m long skis.
Zurbriggen ended her career at the end of the 1979/80 season.
Bernadette Herren, as she is married, lived with her three children Yannick (* 1991), Larissa (* 1994) and Samira (* 1996) in Saas Fee .
World Cup victories
| date | place | country | discipline |
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| March 7, 1973 | Anchorage | United States | Giant slalom |
| 15th January 1975 | Schruns | Austria | Departure |
| January 31, 1975 | Chamonix | France | Departure |
| 3rd December 1975 | Val d'Isère | France | Departure |
| January 8, 1976 | Hasliberg | Switzerland | Departure |
| 22nd January 1976 | Bad Gastein | Austria | combination |
| January 18, 1977 | Schruns | Austria | Departure |
Web links
- Bernadette Zurbriggen in the database of the International Ski Federation (English)
- Bernadette Zurbriggen in the database of Ski-DB (English)
- Bernadette Zurbriggen in the Sports-Reference database (English; archived from the original )
Individual evidence
- ↑ Fourteen year old won in Arosa . In: Arbeiter-Zeitung . Vienna January 31, 1971, p. 15 ( berufer-zeitung.at - the open online archive - digitized).
- ↑ Pioneer in men's skis. Neue Zürcher Zeitung , February 16, 2010, accessed on March 26, 2015 .
- ↑ Val d'Isère - Women's list of winners
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| SURNAME | Zurbriggen, Bernadette |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | Swiss ski racer |
| DATE OF BIRTH | August 30, 1956 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Saas-Grund |