Bernhard Perren

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Bernhard Perren Alpine skiing
nation SwitzerlandSwitzerland Switzerland
birthday May 1, 1928
place of birth Zermatt , Switzerland
date of death August 31, 1960
Place of death Zermatt
Career
discipline Downhill , giant slalom ,
slalom , combination
society Zermatt ski club
End of career 1954
 

Bernhard Perren (born May 1, 1928 in Zermatt ; † August 31, 1960 there ) was a Swiss ski racer and mountain guide . At the end of the 1940s and in the first half of the 1950s, he was one of the best downhill skiers and a good giant slalom driver. Perren celebrated several victories and podium places in international races, achieved fourth place in the downhill of the 1950 World Championship and was three times Swiss champion . He was also a well-known mountain guide. He died in a car accident at the age of 32. His brother Gottlieb Perren was also a skier and mountain guide.

biography

Perren won the junior downhill at the Swiss Ski Championships in Wengen in 1947 . Two years later he reached third place in the elite class behind Ralph Olinger and Rudolf Graf . In January 1950, Perren stood on the podium for the first time at the Lauberhorn races in Wengen, when he came second in the downhill and third in the combined. At the 1950 World Championships held in Aspen the following month , he narrowly missed the medal ranks in his specialty: He was fourth in the downhill, 13th in the giant slalom and 27th in the slalom. In the winter of 1951, Perren achieved his best result in the Arlberg-Kandahar races with fourth place in the downhill from Sestriere . He also became Swiss champion in downhill and giant slalom in Adelboden . Perren was able to successfully defend the downhill championship title in 1952. At the Olympic Winter Games in Oslo in 1952 , however, he landed in the defeated field as the 26th of the descent, over 16 seconds behind the winner Zeno Colò . His best Olympic result was eighth in giant slalom, and he was also 21st in slalom.

Perren had his most successful season in the winter of 1953: He won downhill runs in Sestriere, Garmisch-Partenkirchen and at the Hahnenkamm race in Kitzbühel (new record time on the Streif of 2: 54.5 minutes), finished second in the downhill and combination of the Lauberhorn race in Wengen and in the combination of Sestriere and won the giant slalom held as part of the Lauberhorn race in Wengen. In mid-March, however, he had a hard fall at the Gornergrat derby in Zermatt . Another fall in the Lauberhorn race on January 9, 1954, in which he suffered a broken ankle, ended Perren's career.

In addition to skiing, Perren was a well-known and respected mountain guide . He died on August 31, 1960 near Zermatt as a professional truck driver in a four-ton truck transporting sand from Arbbach to Staffelalp when he missed a curve and was crushed by the truck.

successes

winter Olympics

(also counted as world championships)

  • Oslo 1952 : 8th giant slalom, 21st slalom, 26th descent

World championships

  • Aspen 1950 : 4th downhill, 13th giant slalom, 27th slalom

Swiss championships

More Achievements

  • Winner of the Hahnenkamm Downhill in 1953
  • Winner of the runs in Sestriere and Garmisch-Partenkirchen in 1953
  • Winner of the giant slalom in Wengen 1953

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Karl Erb : Fascination Downhill. SV Internationale / Schweizer Verlagshaus, Zurich 1985, ISBN 3-7263-6389-0 , p. 52.
  2. 41st Swiss ski race in Wengen. In: Yearbook of the Swiss Ski Association. Volume XLI, 1947. pp. 80-85.
  3. 43rd Swiss Ski Race Gstaad. In: Yearbook of the Swiss Ski Association. Volume XLIII, 1949. pp. 55-61.
  4. Martin Born: Lauberhorn - the story of a myth. AS Verlag, Zurich 2004, ISBN 3-909111-08-4 , pp. 41 and 234.
  5. ^ Marc Hodler : The Alpine World Championships in Aspen. In: Yearbook of the Swiss Ski Association. Volume XLIV, 1950. pp. 22-31.
  6. ^ Hermann Nussbaumer: Victory on white slopes. Balance of alpine skiing. 9th expanded edition, Trauner Verlag, Linz 1977, ISBN 3-85320-176-8 , leaflet 3 (without page number).
  7. 1st Swiss Ski Championship Week Adelboden. In: Yearbook of the Swiss Ski Association. Volume XLV, 1951. pp. 67-74.
  8. 46th Swiss Ski Championships. Alpine disciplines Klosters. In: Yearbook of the Swiss Ski Association. Volume XLVI, 1952. pp. 65-69.
  9. ^ Hermann Nussbaumer: Victory on white slopes. Balance of alpine skiing. 9th expanded edition, Trauner Verlag, Linz 1977, ISBN 3-85320-176-8 , pp. 134-141.
  10. Kitzbüheler Ski Club (ed.): Hahnenkamm: Chronicle of a Myth. 100 years of the Kitzbühel Ski Club. Wissen Media Verlag, Gütersloh / Munich 2003, p. 103.
  11. Martin Born: Lauberhorn - the story of a myth. AS Verlag, Zurich 2004, ISBN 3-909111-08-4 , pp. 72–73 and 234.
  12. Martin Born: Lauberhorn - the story of a myth. AS Verlag, Zurich 2004, ISBN 3-909111-08-4 , p. 73.
  13. ^ Kurt Jeschko : Piste artists. A short story of alpine skiing. E. Hunna Verlag, Vienna – Munich 1963, p. 57.
  14. ^ "Christian Pravda wins in Wengen" . In: Arbeiter-Zeitung . Vienna January 10, 1954, p. 16 ( Arbeiter-zeitung.at - the open online archive - digitized).
  15. ^ "On the death of Bernhard Perren"; »Sport Zürich« No. 111 of September 5, 1960, page 26
  16. ^ Alpine Notes: Bernhard Perren. In: The Alpine Journal 1961, p. 163.