Bill Koch

Bill Koch
Full name	William Conrad Koch
nation	United States
birthday	7th June 1955 (age 65)
place of birth	Brattleboro , United States
Career
status	resigned
End of career	1994
Medal table
Olympic medals 0 × 1 × 0 × World Cup medals 0 × 1 × 1 ×
winter Olympics silver 1976 Innsbruck 30 km  Nordic World Ski Championships silver 1976 Innsbruck 30 km bronze 1982 Oslo 30 km
Placements in the cross-country skiing world cup
World Cup victories in individual 5 ( details )  Overall World Cup 1. (1981/82)
Podium placements 1. 2. 3.  Distance races 5 1 2

William Conrad "Bill" Koch (born June 7, 1955 in Brattleboro , Vermont ) is a former American cross-country skier .

He was the first US cross-country skier to establish himself in the world class. At the 1976 Olympic Games in Innsbruck he was able to win the silver medal over 30 kilometers.

His biggest sporting disappointment was the performance at the 1980 Olympic Games in his own country, when he could not place in the front field in the woods around Lake Placid .

In 1981 he won the Engadin Skimarathon , and in 1982 the Cross-Country World Cup .

successes

World Cup victories in individual

No.	date	place	discipline
1.	January 16, 1982	Le Brassus	15 km
2.	January 24, 1982	Brusson	30 km
3.	March 12, 1982	Falun	30 km
4th	March 27, 1982	Castelrotto	15 km
5.	February 12, 1983	Sarajevo	30 km

Victories in ski marathon races

• 1981 Engadin Skimarathon , 42 km

World Cup overall placements

season	space	Points
1981/82	1.	121
1982/83	3.	114
1983/84	54.	4th

Web links

• Bill Koch in the database of the International Ski Federation (English)
• Bill Koch in the database of Olympedia.org (English)