Fritz Steuri (skier, 1903)

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Fritz Steuri Alpine skiing
nation SwitzerlandSwitzerland Switzerland
birthday 1903
place of birth Grindelwald
date of death August 9, 1955
Place of death Gross Grünhorn
Career
discipline Slalom , downhill , combination
society SC Kleine Scheidegg
Medal table
World championships 0 × gold 1 × silver 2 × bronze
FIS Alpine World Ski Championships
bronze Murren 1931 Departure
silver Innsbruck 1933 combination
bronze Innsbruck 1933 slalom
 

Fritz Steuri (* 1903 in Grindelwald ; † August 9, 1955 on the Gross Grünhorn ) was a Swiss ski racer and mountain guide . He won three medals at Alpine World Ski Championships and in 1931 and 1932 the downhill and the combined Lauberhorn races .

biography

At the beginning of the 1930s, Fritz Steuri, who competed for the Kleine Scheidegg ski club , was one of the most successful Swiss ski racers. At the Alpine World Ski Championships , which were held for the first time in 1931 and were not officially called World Championships at that time, but were referred to as FIS races or FIS competitions, he won one silver and two bronze medals by 1933: At the first FIS races In 1931 in Mürren he came third in the downhill, behind his compatriots Walter Prager and Otto Furrer . He did not take part in the slalom. In 1932 he stayed in Cortina d'Ampezzo without a medal and achieved fifth place in the slalom and seventh place in the downhill and in the combination. In 1933 in Innsbruck he won the bronze medal in the slalom behind the two Austrians Anton Seelos and Gustav Lantschner and, with fourth place in the downhill, the silver medal in the combination behind Seelos.

At the Lauberhorn races in Wengen , which have been held since 1930, Fritz Steuri won the downhill and combined races twice in a row in 1931 and 1932. At the “Great Ski Races in Switzerland”, the Swiss Ski Championships, in Zermatt in 1932 he took third place in the senior I class downhill. In 1933 in Einsiedeln , he won the downhill run with the fastest time of day in this class, which gave him the challenge prize as a special prize of the British Ski Club. With a second place in the slalom, he also won the alpine combination of downhill and slalom in the senior class. In 1942 he won the 36th Swiss ski race in Grindelwald in age group I in downhill and slalom. From 1935 Steuri was the first director of the newly founded Kleine Scheidegg ski school.

In addition to his work as a ski racer and ski school director, Fritz Steuri was also a well-known mountain guide. He had already received his driving license in 1926. On August 9, 1955, he and a German couple were supposed to climb the 4,044 meter high Gross Grünhorn over the Grünegghorn . After crossing the 3860 meter high Grünegghorn, the group was hit by a slab in a depression between Grünegghorn and Gross Grünhorn and killed. Steuri left behind his wife and four children. His son Walter Steuri, ten years old when his father died, was chairman of the Jungfrau Railways management from 1994 to 2008 .

Statistics & Achievements

World championships

More Achievements

  • Victory in the downhill and combination of the Lauberhorn race in 1931 and 1932
  • Victory in the downhill and in the combination of downhill and slalom at the Swiss Ski Championships in 1933

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ a b Rudolf Rubi : From mountain farming village to tourist resort: hospitality, alpinism. (= In the valley of Grindelwald . Volume II). Verlag Sutter Druck, Grindelwald 1986, pp. 255-256.
  2. ^ 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. 198.
  3. ↑ In the database of the International Ski Association FIS, Fritz Steuri's results of the first three World Championships are erroneously attributed to Willy Steuri , see the entry by Willy Steuri in the database of the International Ski Association (English).
  4. ^ Paul Schnaidt: Courses internationales de slalom et de descente. Mürren, 19 to 22 February 1931. In: Yearbook of the Swiss Ski Association. Volume 27, 1931. pp. 183-185.
  5. ↑ Othmar Gurtner : 2x Mürren. In: The mountain hare. Yearbook of the Swiss Academic Ski Club. Volume 2, No. 1, 1931. pp. 106-122.
  6. ^ Arnold Lunn : The Story of Skiing. Eyre & Spottiswoode, London 1952, p. 78.
  7. ^ A. Hochholdinger: FIS race in Cortina d'Ampezzo 1932. In: Yearbook of the Swiss Ski Association. Volume 28, 1932. pp. 163-165.
  8. ^ Willy Bonomo: The FIS races in Cortina d'Ampezzo. In: The mountain hare. Yearbook of the Swiss Academic Ski Club. Volume 2, No. 6, 1932, pp. 213-220.
  9. ^ 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.
  10. ^ F. Martin: The FIS races in Innsbruck, 6. – 13. February 1933. In: The mountain hare. Yearbook of the Swiss Academic Ski Club. Volume 2, No. 7, 1933, pp. 385-392.
  11. ↑ Martin Born: Lauberhorn - the story of a myth. AS Verlag, Zurich 2004, ISBN 3-909111-08-4 , pp. 36 and 234.
  12. ^ 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, pp. 197-198.
  13. ↑ 26th big Swiss ski race in Zermatt. In: Yearbook of the Swiss Ski Association. Volume 28, 1932. pp. 148-160.
  14. ↑ 27. Big Switzerland. Ski races in Einsiedeln. In: Yearbook of the Swiss Ski Association. 29th year, 1933. pp. 158-168.
  15. ↑ 36th Swiss ski race in Grindelwald. In: Yearbook of the Swiss Ski Association. Volume 38, 1942. pp. 38-50.
  16. ↑ How it all began ... ( Memento of the original from October 4, 2012 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. Website of the Swiss Snow Sports School Kleine Scheidegg, accessed on July 12, 2011.  @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / www.snowsportsscheidegg.ch
  17. ^ 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. 220.
  18. ↑ Strive upwards with your eyes open. Article in the Handelszeitung from July 26, 2000 on www.schweizerbank.ch, accessed on July 12, 2011.
  19. ↑ Kessler takes over from Steuri as Chairman of the Board of Directors. Jungfrau Zeitung , June 5, 2008, accessed July 12, 2011.
personal data
SURNAME Steuri, Fritz
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Swiss ski racer and mountain guide
DATE OF BIRTH 1903
PLACE OF BIRTH Grindelwald , Switzerland
DATE OF DEATH August 9, 1955
Place of death Gross Grünhorn , Switzerland