Ekkehard Fasser

Ekkehard Fasser's team in the 1988 Olympic season

Ekkehard Fasser (born September 3, 1952 in Glarus ) is a former Swiss athlete and bobsleigh driver .

As a teenager, Fasser was a track and field athlete. In the 1970s he did high jump (1.98 m), long jump (6.94 m) and shot put (7 ¼ kg; 14.52 m). In 1978 Fasser pushed the two-man bobsleigh with Ralph Pichler . They won silver at the Junior World Championships in Winterberg . In 1981 he was called up for the Swiss national team's B squad, and in 1982 he was selected for the World Cup.

successes

• European Champion 1983 in Sarajevo
• 1983 world champion in Lake Placid in the four-man bobsleigh with Hans Märchy, Kurt Poletti and Rolf Strittmatter.
• 1988 Olympic champion in the four-man bobsleigh with Kurt Meier , Marcel Fässler and Werner Stocker
• World Cup winner in the 1985/86 season

Web links

• Ekkehard Fasser in the Sports-Reference database (English; archived from the original )

Remarks

1. ↑ Archived copy ( Memento of the original from September 14, 2011 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. 
2. ^ Result of the Olympic Games ( Memento of May 13, 2008 in the Internet Archive )