Hans Candrian
Hans Candrian 
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 Switzerland
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| birthday | March 6, 1938 | ||||||||||||
| place of birth |
Flims , Graubünden , Switzerland
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| size | 178 cm | ||||||||||||
| Weight | 93 kg | ||||||||||||
| date of death | January 9, 1999 | ||||||||||||
| Place of death | Chur | ||||||||||||
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| discipline | Four-man bobsleigh | ||||||||||||
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Hans Candrian (born March 6, 1938 , Flims , Graubünden ; † January 9, 1999 , Chur ) was a Swiss bobsleigh athlete .
career
Hans Candrian was a versatile athlete. He was known nationally as a gymnast and was successful in freestyle wrestling in the cantons, as well as being an active skier.
In 1965 he started bobsleigh. In 1967 he joined the Swiss national bobsleigh team and a year later he won the four-man bobsleigh world championship together with Walter Graf , Willi Hofmann and Jean Wicki . The quartet also competed at the 1968 Winter Olympics in Grenoble , where they won the bronze medal. Candrian and Wicki also took 9th place in the two-man competition.
At the 1970 Bobsleigh World Championships in St. Moritz , he won bronze in a two-man competition (with Gion Caviezel ) and in a four-man competition with Max Forster , René Stadler and Peter Schärer . At the European Championships in 1971, Candrian and Schärer came second. Candrian took part in the 1972 Winter Olympics in Sapporo with a completely replaced team. In the two-man competition he came in seventh place with Heinz Schenker and in fourth place with Schenker, Gaudenz Beeli and Erwin Juon . With Schenker he again won silver in the two-man bobsleigh at the 1973 Bobsleigh World Championships in Lake Placid and silver in the 1974 four-man competition with Beeli and Guido Casty and Yves Marchand .
Soon after, he retired from an active sports career, but remained active in sports until old age. In January 1999 he suffered a heart attack while exercising and died a week later while taking a fitness test in a hospital in Chur.
successes
- Bronze medal Olympia Grenoble 1968
- Vice World Champion 1973
- Vice European Champion 1971
Web links
- Hans Candrian in the database of Sports-Reference (English; archived from the original )
- Olympic.org
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| SURNAME | Candrian, Hans |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | Swiss bobsledder |
| DATE OF BIRTH | March 6, 1938 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Flims , Grisons |
| DATE OF DEATH | January 9, 1999 |
| Place of death | Chur , Graubünden |