Bruno Kernen

This article deals with the ski racer Bruno Kernen (* 1972). For the ski racer (* 1961) see Bruno Kernen (Skirennfahrer, 1961) .

Bruno Kernen
nation	Switzerland
birthday	1st July 1972 (age 48)
place of birth	Thun , Switzerland
size	180 cm
Career
discipline	Downhill , Super-G , giant slalom , slalom , combination
society	Wimmis
status	resigned
End of career	2007
Medal table
Olympic games 0 × 0 × 1 × World championships 1 × 1 × 2 × Junior World Championship 1 × 0 × 1 ×
winter Olympics bronze Turin 2006 Departure  Alpine World Ski Championships gold Sestriere 1997 Departure silver Sestriere 1997 combination bronze St Moritz 2003 Departure bronze Are 2007 Super G  Alpine Ski Junior World Championships gold Hemsedal 1991 combination bronze Hemsedal 1991 Super G
Placements in the Alpine Ski World Cup
Individual world cup victories 3  Overall World Cup 12. ( 1995/96 , 2002/03 )  Downhill World Cup 4th (2002/03)  Super G World Cup 12. (2002/03)  Giant Slalom World Cup 32nd ( 2004/05 )  Slalom World Cup 44th ( 1997/98 )  Combination World Cup 4. (1997/98)
Podium placements 1. 2. 3.  Departure 3 0 1  combination 0 1 2

Bruno Kernen (born July 1, 1972 in Thun ) is a former Swiss ski racer .

biography

In the Ski World Cup he won three downhill runs, including the Lauberhorn race in Wengen . His greatest success was winning the gold medal at the 1997 World Championships in Sestriere in downhill skiing. He also won the silver medal in combination at this world championship. In 2003, Kernen won the bronze medal in downhill skiing at the World Championships in St. Moritz . At the 2006 Winter Olympics , he won the bronze medal in the downhill. At the 2007 World Championships in Åre , Kernen won the bronze medal in the Super-G.

Since he has a distant cousin as his namesake, who was also a Swiss ski racer ( Bruno Kernen ), he was referred to as "Bruno Kernen II" on TV ads at the World Championships.

On July 6, 2007, Kernen announced his retirement from top-class sport in the start house of the Lauberhorn run. The reason he gave was the knee injury that he sustained three months earlier after falling down on the downhill in Lenzerheide .

He is an athlete ambassador for the development aid organization Right To Play .

successes

winter Olympics

• Turin 2006 : 3rd departure

World championships

• Sestriere 1997 : 1st descent, 2nd combination
• St. Moritz 2003 : 3rd descent
• Åre 2007 : 3rd Super-G

World Cup victories

date	place	country	discipline
January 19, 1996	Veysonnaz	Switzerland	Departure
January 20, 1996	Veysonnaz	Switzerland	Departure
January 18, 2003	Wengen	Switzerland	Departure

Swiss championships

• Four-time Swiss champion : Downhill 1996 and 2005, Super-G 1996, Combination 1995

supporting documents

1. ↑ Bruno Kernen: Emotional farewell at the Lauberhorn start , article on skionline.ch from July 7, 2007

Web links

Commons : Bruno Kernen  - Collection of pictures, videos and audio files

• Bruno Kernen in the database of the International Ski Association (English)
• Bruno Kernen in the database of Ski-DB (English)
• Bruno Kernen in the database of Sports-Reference (English; archived from the original )