Hans Zurbriggen

Hans Zurbriggen
nation	Switzerland
birthday	February 22, 1920
place of birth	Saas-Fee ,  Switzerland
date of death	July 23, 1950
Place of death	Monthey ,  Switzerland
Career
discipline	Nordic combined ski jumping
Medal table
National medals 1 × 0 × 1 ×
Swiss championships gold 1945 Engelberg Normal hill  Swiss championships bronze 1945 Engelberg Single NK

Hans Zurbriggen (born February 22, 1920 in Saas-Fee , † July 23, 1950 in Monthey ) was a Swiss skier who was active in ski jumping and Nordic combined .

Career

Zurbriggen won his first and only title in individual ski jumping at the Swiss Ski Championships in Engelberg in 1945 and the bronze medal behind Niklaus Stump and Martin Zimmermann in the Nordic Combined individual .

At the 1948 Winter Olympics in St. Moritz , Zurbriggen reached tenth place with jumps of 61 and 67 meters.

Zurbriggen was with several other people on a night drive above Monthey when the driver missed a curve and the vehicle fell about 100 meters. At first he survived the fall largely unscathed and was able to free himself from the wreck. While trying to help the other inmates, Zurbriggen slipped and fell another 30 meters into a lower creek, where he sustained serious injuries from which he died a few hours later in Montheyer Hospital.

Web links

• Hans Zurbriggen in the Sports-Reference database (English; archived from the original )

Individual evidence

1. ↑ 39th Swiss ski race in Engelberg. In: Yearbook of the Swiss Ski Association. Volume XLI, 1947. pp. 66-71.
2. ↑ Hans Zurbriggen in a fatal accident , in Rems-Zeitung of July 26, 1950, p. 8