Fritz Kaufmann (ski jumper)

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Fritz Kaufmann Ski jumping Nordic combination
nation SwitzerlandSwitzerland Switzerland
birthday April 15, 1905
place of birth Grindelwald ,  SwitzerlandSwitzerlandSwitzerland 
date of death January 1941
Career
discipline Nordic combined ski jumping
society SC Grindelwald
Medal table
World Cup medals 0 × gold 1 × silver 0 × bronze
FIS Nordic World Ski Championships
silver 1931 Oberhof K90
 

Fritz Kaufmann (born April 15, 1905 in Grindelwald ; † January 1941 ) was a Swiss ski jumper and Nordic combined athlete . He was the best Swiss jumper in the late 1920s and early 1930s, took part in several world championships and in 1932 in the Olympic Winter Games and, in addition to numerous other competitions, twice won jumping at the Swiss championships. His greatest success was winning the silver medal at the 1931 World Cup in Oberhof .

Career

Fritz Kaufmann started skiing during his school days and already showed a remarkably clean jumping style as a teenager. When he started in the Senior I class for the first time at the Great Ski Race in Switzerland in Engelberg in 1925 , he finished third in the ski jumping competition. Kaufmann developed into the best jumper in Switzerland and in 1929 and 1930 he won the ski jumping competition at the Swiss Ski Races, the Swiss Ski Championships , in Arosa and Engelberg. Official Swiss championship titles were not awarded in jumping until 1934.

In 1929 in Zakopane , Kaufmann was a member of the Swiss national team for the Nordic World Ski Championships for the first time and finished 14th in the ski jumping from the Krokiew-Schanze as the second-best Swiss. In February 1930, Kaufmann took part in the Nordic World Ski Championships , which were held in Oslo that year . There he finished as the best Swiss and at the same time best Central European behind a phalanx of Norwegians and Swedes in 22nd place in the ski jumping. In December of the same year he jumped a new hill record of 52 meters on the Mettenbergschanze in Grindelwald. In the next few months, further victories followed in Davos , Mürren , Gstaad , Zermatt , Wengen and in Oberschönau in Thuringia . Kaufmann celebrated the high point of his career at the Nordic World Ski Championships in Oberhof in 1931 , when he won the silver medal with jumps on 57 and 56 meters behind the Norwegian Birger Ruud . Kaufmann also started in the Nordic Combined, finished 55th in cross-country skiing and only 38th in combined jumping, as he achieved the best daily distance of 60 meters in the first jump, but did not make the jump, which meant 39th place in the final classification of the combination.

In the winter of 1931/32, Kaufmann won jumping competitions in Andermatt , Davos and Zermatt, among others . He also won the New Year's Eve competition on the Mettenbergschanze. In February 1932, Kaufmann took part in the Winter Olympics in Lake Placid alongside Cesare Chiogna and Fritz Steuri , who was working as a ski instructor in the United States at the time . First, the jumpers Kaufmann and Chiogna started in the Nordic Combined in order to have additional preparation for the special jumping. Kaufmann won the combined jump and, with 32nd place in cross-country skiing, was 23rd in the combination. In the special jumping that followed, Kaufmann finished sixth with widths of 63.5 and 65.5 meters.

At the World Championships in 1933 in Innsbruck Kaufmann was unable to attend because he was a few days earlier in the training Kitzbühel had hurt. In 1934 Kaufmann won two competitions in Adelboden and Wengen, but at the 1934 World Championships in Sollefteå he only came in 28th place in the ski jumping competition. In January 1935 Kaufmann won two competitions on the Mettenbergschanze in Grindelwald and the Lötschbergschanze in Kandersteg . In the world championships in February 1935, however, he could not take part again because he fell while training in the High Tatras and suffered injuries to his shoulder and ankle. In July 1935, Kaufmann won the summer ski race on the Jungfraujoch for the second time since 1931 .

In January and February 1936, Kaufmann won jumping competitions in Adelboden, Montana , Grindelwald and St. Moritz . In Gstaad he became the champion of the Bernese Oberland in the same year , and in 1936 and 1937 he achieved two second places on the Olympic hill in St. Moritz, in summer 1937 a victory on the Jungfraujoch and at the end of the year another victory in the old year jumping in Grindelwald. However, he was not selected by the Swiss Ski Association for the 1936 Winter Olympics and the 1937 World Championships .

Kaufmann had his last major international appearance at the Nordic World Ski Championships in Lahti in 1938 , but he fell in the first jump and had to do without the second because of a broken ski. Two weeks after this World Championship, Kaufmann won the jumping in age group I at the Swiss Championships in Wengen and in December 1938 he won again on the Olympic hill in St. Moritz. At the beginning of 1939, Kaufmann won jumping competitions in Arosa, St. Moritz, Adelboden, Engelberg and Grindelwald, among others. On February 19, 1939, following the Graubünden Ski Championships in Pontresina , he performed a double jump with his cousin Christian Kaufmann , in which, however, they seriously collided in the run. Fritz Kaufmann suffered a broken upper jaw and rib, Christian Kaufmann suffered a broken wrist and both a concussion. However, they soon recovered from this mishap and continued to take part in competitions. In 1939 and 1940 Fritz Kaufmann achieved second place in the old year competitions on the Grindelwald Mettenbergschanze.

In January 1941, Kaufmann passed away by suicide .

successes

winter Olympics

World championships

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ a b c d e f Rudolf Rubi : The summer and winter health resort: roads and railways, winter sports. (= In the valley of Grindelwald. Volume III). Verlag Sutter Druck, Grindelwald 1987, p. 211.
  2. ↑ Fritz Erb : The 23rd major Swiss ski race in Arosa. In: The mountain hare. Yearbook of the Swiss Academic Ski Club. Volume 1, No. 3, 1929, pp. 215-231.
  3. ↑ Willy Bürgin: The 24th major Swiss ski race in Engelberg. In: The mountain hare. Yearbook of the Swiss Academic Ski Club. Volume 1, No. 4, 1930, pp. 347-357.
  4. ^ Colonel Luchsinger: The international ski competitions 1930 in Oslo. In: Yearbook of the Swiss Ski Association. Volume 27, 1931. pp. 186–202.
  5. ^ Walter Amstutz : The FIS competitions and the 11th ski congress in Oslo. In: The mountain hare. Yearbook of the Swiss Academic Ski Club. Vol. 1, No. 4, 1930, pp. 371-398.
  6. ↑ Guido Tonella: Oberhof - Concorso della FIS - 1931. In: Yearbook of the Swiss Ski Association. Volume 27, 1931. pp. 176–180.
  7. ^ Fritz Erb : The FIS races in Oberhof. In: The mountain hare. Yearbook of the Swiss Academic Ski Club. Vol. 2, No. 1, 1931, pp. 97-105.
  8. ^ A. Hochholdinger: Olympics in Lake-Placid (USA) 1932. In: Yearbook of the Swiss Ski Association. Volume 28, 1932. pp. 161–162.
  9. ↑ Cesare Chiogna : The Winter Olympics in Lake Placid. In: The mountain hare. Yearbook of the Swiss Academic Ski Club. Vol. 2, No. 6, 1932, pp. 221-226.
  10. ^ A. Hochholdinger: FIS race in Innsbruck from February 6th to 13th, 1933. In: Yearbook of the Swiss Ski Association. 29th year, 1933. pp. 171–179.
  11. ^ A b Rudolf Rubi : The summer and winter health resort: roads and railways, winter sports. (= In the valley of Grindelwald. Volume III). Verlag Sutter Druck, Grindelwald 1987, p. 214.
  12. ^ Peter Alexander von Le Fort : Diary of the FIS races in 1934 in Solleftea. In: The mountain hare. Yearbook of the Swiss Academic Ski Club. Vol. 3, No. 8, 1934, pp. 114-118.
  13. ↑ Annual report of the foreign delegation. In: Yearbook of the Swiss Ski Association. Volume XXXI, 1935. pp. 136-137.
  14. ^ A b c Rudolf Rubi : The summer and winter health resort: roads and railways, winter sports. (= In the valley of Grindelwald. Volume III). Verlag Sutter Druck, Grindelwald 1987, p. 212.
  15. ^ Arnold Kaech : FIS race in Lahti (Finland). In: Yearbook of the Swiss Ski Association. Volume XXXIV, 1938. pp. 114-121.
  16. ↑ 32nd Swiss ski race in Wengen. In: Yearbook of the Swiss Ski Association. Volume XXXIV, 1938. pp. 105-110.
  17. ^ A b c d Rudolf Rubi : The summer and winter health resort: roads and railways, winter sports. (= In the valley of Grindelwald. Volume III). Verlag Sutter Druck, Grindelwald 1987, p. 213.
personal data
SURNAME Kaufmann, Fritz
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Swiss ski jumper and Nordic combined athlete
DATE OF BIRTH April 15, 1905
PLACE OF BIRTH Grindelwald , Switzerland
DATE OF DEATH January 1941