Edy Hubacher
Eduard "Edy" Hubacher (born April 15, 1940 in Bern ) is a former Swiss bobsleigh driver and athlete . He was the best shot putter , discus thrower and all-rounder in his country in the 1960s , then switched to bobsleigh and became Olympic champion in the four-man bobsleigh in 1972.
Career
From 1964 to 1970, Hubacher, who started for TV Länggasse Bern, improved the Swiss record in the shot put 15 times in a row; he increased his performance from 16.26 m to 19.34 m. From 1968 to 1970 he broke the Swiss record in discus throwing five times in a row and finally reached a distance of 56.78 m. He won a total of 16 Swiss championship titles in the shot put, discus throwing, pentathlon and decathlon . His best shot put of 19.17 m in a decathlon has not been surpassed by any other athlete in this discipline. Hubacher took part in the 1968 Summer Olympics in Mexico City ; in the shot put he reached 15th place, in discus throwing he came 25th.
In 1970, Hubacher was in a training camp in Magglingen , where he happened to observe pushing exercises by bobsledders and tried it himself. After he had set the best time straight away, bobsleigh pilot Jean Wicki persuaded him to test drives in Königssee and took him on to his team. As Wickis brakeman, he won the bronze medal at the 1972 European Championships in St. Moritz . The greatest success of his career followed a few weeks later: Together with Wicki, Hans Leutenegger and Werner Camichel , he won the gold medal in the four-man bobsleigh at the Olympic Games in Sapporo ; there was also the bronze medal in the two-man bobsleigh. Then he ended his sports career.
Hubacher was a teacher in Iffwil by profession. He also gained fame as the “riddle uncle of the nation” by creating crossword puzzles and other puzzles for numerous magazines and newspapers . From 1973 to 2003 he was a co-host of the Radio-Musik-Box program on Radio DRS 1 .
source
- All-around fighters in retirement ( memento of July 7, 2011 in the Internet Archive ), Tages-Anzeiger , July 12, 2007
Web links
- Edy Hubacher in the Sports-Reference database (English; archived from the original )
Individual evidence
- ↑ Swiss record development outdoor from 1906, Hoch bis Speer ( Memento from 23 August 2012 in the Internet Archive ) (PDF; 33 kB), Swiss Athletics
1924: Scherrer , Neveu , A. Schläppi , H. Schläppi | 1928: Fiske , Tucker , Mason , Gray , Parke | 1932: Fiske , Eagan , Gray , O'Brien | 1936: Musy , Gartmann , Bouvier , Beerli | 1948: Tyler , Martin , Rimkus , D'Amico | 1952: Ostler , Kuhn , Nieberl , Kemser | 1956: Kapus , servant , old , fear | 1964: V. Emery , Kirby , Anakin , J. Emery | 1968: Monti , De Paolis , Zandonella , Armano | 1972: Wicki , Hubacher , Leutenegger , Camichel | 1976: Nehmer , Babock , Germeshausen , Lehmann | 1980: Nehmer , Musiol , Germeshausen , Gerhardt | 1984: W. Hoppe , Wetzig , Schauerhammer , Kirchner | 1988: Fasser , Meier , Fässler , Stocker | 1992: Appelt , Winkler , Haidacher , Schroll | 1994: Czudaj , Brannasch , Hampel , Szelig | 1998: Langen , Zimmermann , Jakobs , Hampel | 2002: Lange , Kühn , Kuske , Embach | 2006: Lange , Kuske , R. Hoppe , Putze | 2010: Holcomb , Mesler , Tomasevicz , Olsen | 2014: Melbardis , Vilkaste , Dreiskens , Strenga | 2018: Friedrich , Bauer , Grothkopp , Margis
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| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Hubacher, Edy |
| ALTERNATIVE NAMES | Hubacher, Eduard |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | Swiss bobsledder and athlete |
| DATE OF BIRTH | April 15, 1940 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Bern |