Fred Rubi

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Fred Rubi Alpine skiing
nation SwitzerlandSwitzerland Switzerland
birthday October 12, 1926
place of birth Wengen , Switzerland
date of death September 5, 1997
Place of death Adelboden
Career
discipline Downhill , giant slalom ,
slalom , combination
society SC Wengen
End of career 1954
 

Fred Rubi , also Fredy Rubi (born October 12, 1926 in Wengen , † September 5, 1997 in Adelboden ) was a Swiss ski racer and politician . In 1950 he won the downhill and combination of the Lauberhorn race and reached fourth place in the downhill at the 1952 Olympic Winter Games . Rubi studied economics at the University of Bern (Dr. rer. Pol. 1953), became spa director in Adelboden in 1954 and created the International Adelboden ski days. From 1966 he also held various positions in politics.

biography

In 1944, the then 17-year-old Rubi stood on the podium for the first time at the Lauberhorn races in Wengen, his birthplace , when he came second in the downhill and third in slalom and combined. Two years later he won the junior downhill at the Swiss Championships in Davos . Rubi celebrated his greatest success to date in January 1950: he won the downhill and the combined Lauberhorn race, as well as a giant slalom held for the first time on the occasion. 20 years earlier, his father Christian Rubi had won the first Lauberhorn run. With these victories Rubi also secured his ticket for the 1950 World Cup in Aspen . However, he was affected by an injury and only reached 38th place in the downhill.

Rubi was more successful at his second major event, the 1952 Winter Olympics in Oslo . He finished fourth in the downhill, where he was only a tenth of a second short of the medal ranks. In the slalom he set the fastest time in the second run, but after a fall in the first run this was only enough for seventh place. He finished the giant slalom in twelfth place. Before that, he was third in slalom and combined at the Lauberhorn races in 1952. In 1953 Rubi took fourth place in the downhill and third place in the combination of three (downhill / slalom / giant slalom) at the International Ski Week in Sestriere . Also in 1953 he became Swiss champion in downhill and combined. Rubi had won his first Swiss championship title two years earlier in combination. After he had become Swiss downhill champion again in 1954, Rubi had a hard fall during the training runs of the 1954 World Cup in Åre . At the exit of the steep slope he crashed into an icy wall of snow and suffered a severe sprain that marked the end of his career.

During his active career, Rubi had obtained the mountain guide patent (1949) and the ski instructor patent (1952) and later became president of the Bernese mountain guide and ski instructor commission. In the same year that he had to end his career, he was elected spa director of Adelboden . He held this office until 1991. Rubi tried to bring important ski races to Adelboden, which he succeeded thanks to his good connections as a former ski racer. The first International Adelboden Ski Days were held as early as 1955 and have been held annually since then and have been part of the program of the then newly created World Cup since 1967 . In the organizing committee of these races Rubi was president until 1994 (retirement due to age after 40 years), then honorary president.

In addition to his work as a spa director, Rubi was, like his father, a committed politician. He belonged to the Social Democratic Party of Switzerland on, was from 1966 to 1973 local council in Adelboden, 1974-1981 mayor and 1967-1987 National Council . He was a member of numerous parliamentary commissions, employee in the Swiss transport center and in the Federal Council's commission for tourism and published numerous publications on the subject of tourism.

successes

winter Olympics

(also counted as world championships)

  • Oslo 1952 : 4th downhill, 7th slalom, 12th giant slalom

World championships

Swiss championships

  • Four-time Swiss champion :
    • 2 × downhill (1953 and 1954)
    • 2 × combination (1951 and 1953)

More Achievements

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ a b c Lauberhorn winner. Lauberhorn race website, accessed on May 8, 2012.
  2. ↑ 40th Swiss ski race in Davos. In: Yearbook of the Swiss Ski Association, Volume XLI, 1947. pp. 72–78.
  3. ↑ Martin Born: Lauberhorn - the story of a myth. AS Verlag, Zurich 2004, ISBN 3-909111-08-4 , p. 41.
  4. ^ Marc Hodler : The Alpine World Championships in Aspen. In: Yearbook of the Swiss Ski Association, Volume XLIV, 1950. pp. 22–31.
  5. ^ Arnold Kaech : Olympia report. In: Yearbook of the Swiss Ski Association. Volume XLVI, 1952. pp. 4-22.
  6. ^ Hermann Nussbaumer: Victory on white slopes. Balance of alpine skiing. 9th expanded edition, Trauner Verlag, Linz 1977, ISBN 3-85320-176-8 , p. 138.
  7. ↑ a b Fred Rubi Memorial. Website of the World Cup in Adelboden, accessed on May 8, 2012.
  8. ↑ a b Christoph Zürcher: Fred Rubi. In: Historisches Lexikon der Schweiz ., Accessed on May 8, 2012.
personal data
SURNAME Rubi, Fred
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Rubi, Fredy
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Swiss ski racers and politicians
DATE OF BIRTH October 12, 1926
PLACE OF BIRTH Wengen , Switzerland
DATE OF DEATH September 5, 1997
Place of death Adelboden , Switzerland