Carl Kupferschmid

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SwitzerlandSwitzerland 0 Carl Kupferschmid
Personal information
Date of birth 29th October 1951 (age 68)
place of birth Winterthur, Switzerland
societies
successes
1983-1985 3 × Swiss Triathlon winner
status
resigned

Carl Kupferschmid (born October 29, 1951 in Winterthur ) is a former Swiss triathlete .

Career

Cycling and running until 1980

Carl Kupferschmid celebrated his first successes as a cyclist and later belonged to the national elite as a runner .

In the mid-1970s he moved to Arosa , where he ran a fitness, massage and beauty studio in the Arosa Kulm Hotel together with Robert Schläpfer , who later won the Biel 100 km run . He also worked as a masseur and player supervisor at EHC Arosa . At that time he competed in long distance races such as the Murtenlauf as well as internationally manned mountain races such as Siders - Montana (1976: 3rd and 4th place) or in Toulon (1979: 4th place) with great success.

The Arosa Kulm Hotel (in the foreground) with Kupferschmids' former Finnbahn

Together with Schläpfer, who also competed in mountain runs and later triathlons, Kupferschmid knew how to use the geographic location of Arosa for permanent altitude training . For this purpose, he had a special Finnish track built at the Hotel Kulm .

Triathlon since 1981

Kuperschmid began his triathlon career at the age of 30. He celebrated his greatest successes in the pioneering years of this sport. The first triathlon he competed was the Swiss Triathlon in Zurich in 1983, which he won. The next year he was able to repeat this victory. At that time, he mainly completed the training sessions on the bike along the Obersee and on the Schanfiggerstrasse . For swimming training, he used the cool water of the Untersee in summer .

Carl Kupferschmid was the first European to make it onto the podium at Ironman Hawaii in 1985 - he finished third at Ironman Hawaii on October 26th. In 1989 he competed in the ETU European Championship on the long-distance triathlon in Denmark, where he finished third. Since then he has not appeared internationally.

Kupferschmid has lived in Santo Domingo in the Dominican Republic since 1992 and worked there as an architect. He was one of the best senior golfers in the region. Kupferschmid also has personal ties with Arosa, where he owns a two-family house on Hörnlistrasse . In 1981 he donated a stable that was originally located on his property to the Schanfigger Heimatmuseum , in the vicinity of which it is still located today.

Sporting successes

Triathlon
Date / year rank competition venue time comment
1989 3 ETU Long Distance European Championships DenmarkDenmark Rødekro Third at the European Triathlon Championships; behind the Dutchman Axel Koenders
Oct 10, 1987 17th Ironman Hawaii United StatesUnited States Kona 9:22:41
Oct 26, 1985 3 Ironman Hawaii United StatesUnited States Kona 9:26:32 He was the first Swiss to reach third place in a triathlon world championship.
1985 1 Swiss triathlon SwitzerlandSwitzerland Zurich 8:42:56 Victory with a new world record
1984 1 Swiss triathlon SwitzerlandSwitzerland Zurich
July 23, 1983 1 Swiss triathlon SwitzerlandSwitzerland Zurich at the first edition

literature

  • Hans Danuser : Arosa - as it was then (1979–1995), Volume 6, self-published by Danuser, Arosa 2002, pp. 18, 37, 38, 63, 75, 90, 104.
  • Hans Danuser: Arosa - as it was then (1962–1978), Volume 5, self-published by Danuser, Arosa 2001, pp. 207, 212, 221.

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ List of EHC Arosa 1979/80
  2. ↑ The Ironman story in fast motion
  3. ↑ Reading sample Fit for Life , 6/2009 (page 68)
  4. ^ Ironman Hawaii
  5. ↑ Target Ironman ( Memento from July 11, 2012 in the Internet Archive ) (page 4/5)
personal data
SURNAME Kupferschmid, Carl
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Swiss triathlete
DATE OF BIRTH October 29, 1951
PLACE OF BIRTH Winterthur