Gottlieb Perren

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Gottlieb Perren Cross country skiing pictogram.svg Ski jumping pictogram.svg Nordic combined pictogram.svg Alpine skiing
nation SwitzerlandSwitzerland Switzerland
birthday April 14, 1926
place of birth Zermatt
date of death May 10, 2014
Place of death Zermatt
Career
discipline Nordic
skiing, alpine skiing
society Zermatt ski club
 

Gottlieb Perren (born April 14, 1926 in Zermatt ; † May 10, 2014 there ) was a Swiss Nordic and Alpine skier and mountain guide . He took part in the Winter Olympics in 1948 and 1952 and after his career in skiing became President of the Swiss Mountain Guide Association. His brother Bernhard Perren was also a skier and mountain guide.

biography

From the mid-1940s, Perren achieved top placings at the Swiss ski championships: in 1946, he was second in the junior class in special and combination ski jumping and third in cross-country skiing as well as in the four combination of ski jumping, cross-country skiing, downhill and slalom . In the years 1947 and 1948 he reached third place in the Nordic Combined for the seniors . At his first major international event, the 1948 Winter Olympics in St. Moritz , he was 18th in Nordic combined and 43rd in 18 km cross-country skiing.

From 1949 Perren concentrated on the alpine disciplines. At the Swiss Ski Championships in 1949 he won the downhill in the Senior I class with the fourth fastest time of the day, 6.4 seconds behind the best elite rider and Swiss champion Ralph Olinger , and was part of the team at the 1950 World Championships in Aspen , but never played there. At the Olympic Winter Games in Oslo in 1952 , he started in the downhill, which he finished in tenth place. Four years later - after the end of his active career - he was a member of the Swiss team's supervisory staff at the 1956 Winter Olympics in Cortina d'Ampezzo .

Apart from ski racing, Perren worked as a mountain guide . He was president of the Swiss Mountain Guide Association .

Gottlieb Perren passed away peacefully on May 10, 2014.

successes

winter Olympics

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Karl Erb : Fascination Downhill. SV Internationale / Schweizer Verlagshaus, Zurich 1985, ISBN 3-7263-6389-0 , p. 52.
  2. ↑ 40th Swiss ski race in Davos. In: Yearbook of the Swiss Ski Association. Volume XLI, 1947. pp. 72-78.
  3. ↑ 41st Swiss ski race in Wengen. In: Yearbook of the Swiss Ski Association. Volume XLI, 1947. pp. 80-85.
  4. ↑ 42nd Swiss Ski Race St. Moritz. In: Yearbook of the Swiss Ski Association. Volume XLII, 1948. pp. 73-79.
  5. ^ Arnold Kaech : Olympic Winter Games St. Moritz 1948. In: Yearbook of the Swiss Ski Association. Volume XLII, 1948. pp. 6-34 and 65-70.
  6. ↑ 43rd Swiss Ski Race Gstaad. In: Yearbook of the Swiss Ski Association. Volume XLIII, 1949. pp. 55-61.
  7. ^ Marc Hodler : The Alpine World Championships in Aspen. In: Yearbook of the Swiss Ski Association. Volume XLIV, 1950. pp. 22-31.
  8. ↑ Willy Wülser: Around Cortina d'Ampezzo. In: Yearbook of the Swiss Ski Association. Volume L, 1956. p. 12.
  9. ↑ Toni Gobbi : UIAGM In: The Alpine Journal 1966. S. 147.
personal data
SURNAME Perren, Gottlieb
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Swiss skiers and mountain guides
DATE OF BIRTH April 14, 1926
PLACE OF BIRTH Zermatt , Switzerland
DATE OF DEATH May 10, 2014
Place of death Zermatt , Switzerland