Jürg Grünenfelder

The title of this article is ambiguous. For the Swiss cardiac surgeon, see Jürg Grünenfelder (physician) .

Jürg Grünenfelder
nation	Switzerland
birthday	8th January 1974 (age 46)
place of birth	Elm , Switzerland
Career
discipline	Downhill , Super-G , combination
status	resigned
End of career	2007
Placements in the Alpine Ski World Cup
Individual World Cup debut December 15, 1996  Overall World Cup 42nd ( 2004/05 )  Downhill World Cup 20. ( 1999/00 )  Super G World Cup 28. (1999/00)  Combination World Cup 11. ( 1998/99 )
Podium placements 1. 2. 3.  Departure 0 1 0

Jürg Grünenfelder (born January 8, 1974 in Elm , Canton Glarus , Switzerland) is a former Swiss ski racer . His younger brother Tobias and his younger sister Corina were also active as ski racers.

biography

Grünenfelder contested his first race in the World Cup in December 1996 . He achieved his best result in December 2004 when he finished second in the downhill race from Val Gardena behind the German Max Rauffer .

Grünenfelder achieved the greatest success of his career at the 1998 Winter Olympics in Nagano . In the downhill race, he was fourth, just a hundredth of a second behind bronze medalist Hannes Trinkl .

On March 13, 2007, at the age of 33, Jürg Grünenfelder announced his retirement from an active sports career for health reasons. He never really recovered from his fall in the Super-G in Val Gardena on December 15, 2006.

Web links

• Website by Tobias and Jürg Grünenfelder
• Jürg Grünenfelder in the database of the International Ski Association (English)
• Jürg Grünenfelder in the database of Ski-DB (English)
• Jürg Grünenfelder in the Sports-Reference database (English; archived from the original )