Karl Lustenberger

Karl Lustenberger
nation	Switzerland
birthday	October 10, 1952
place of birth	Marbach ,  Switzerland
size	175 cm
Weight	67 kg
Career
discipline	Nordic combined ski jumping
society	SC Marbach
National squad	since 1976
status	resigned
End of career	1982

Karl Lustenberger (born October 10, 1952 in Marbach ) is a former Swiss skier who was internationally successful in ski jumping and Nordic combined .

Career

Lustenberger, who started for SC Marbach , celebrated his first international success with the start at the 1976 Winter Olympics in Innsbruck . At just 23 years of age, he was the only Swiss combiner at the Games. In the individual combination, he reached place 10 after a good jumping and a mixed cross-country skiing at the end of 19th place.

At the Nordic World Ski Championships in Lahti in 1978 , he started in the team with the special jumpers. Together with Walter Steiner , Hansjörg Sumi and Robert Mösching , he reached seventh place and 43rd place in the individual on the large hill.

At the Holmenkollen Ski Festival 1979 Lustenberger won the individual Nordic Combined competition for the first time . This also secured the starting place for the 1980 Winter Olympics in Lake Placid . There he competed in ski jumping and in combination. In the ski jumping singles he finished 30th after jumps on 98 and 95 meters. In the individual combination he was able to increase his jumping performance again. After round two he was temporarily in third place before finishing the jumping in sixth. After he achieved a good result in cross-country skiing with 14th place, he was in the end on the sixth individual overall place.

At the Nordic World Ski Championships in Oslo in 1982 , he started again in the team in the combined races. With the team he reached sixth place. The now 29-year-old did not start in the special jumpers.

After the end of his active career, Lustenberger became a technical delegate at the FIS and the FISU . He is an honorary member of the Lucerne Snow Sports Association. As early as 1983 he published his thesis under the title Nordic Combination: A survey about the structure of training in the preparatory period .

Web links

• Karl Lustenberger in the database of the International Ski Association (English) - ski jumping
• Karl Lustenberger in the database of the International Ski Federation (English) - Nordic Combined
• Karl Lustenberger in the database of Sports-Reference (English; archived from the original )

Individual evidence

1. ↑ Switzerland Nordic Combined at the 1976 Innsbruck Winter Games ( English ) Sports-Reference.com. Retrieved December 7, 2013.
2. ↑ Jens Jahn , Egon Theiner : Encyclopedia of Ski Jumping . 1st edition. AGON Sportverlag, Kassel 2004, ISBN 3-89784-099-5 , p. 167-169 .
3. ^ Vinnere av Holmenkollrennene . snl.no. Retrieved November 2, 2017.
4. ↑ World Ski Championships 1982 - Men's Team K85 / 3x10 km ( English ) FIS-Ski.com. Retrieved December 7, 2013.
5. ↑ Honorary Members . Lucerne Snow Sports Association. Archived from the original on September 9, 2013. 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. Retrieved December 7, 2013. 
6. ↑ Karl Lustenberger: Nordic Combination: A survey about the structure of the training in the preparation period . ETS / NKES, 1983 ( Google Books ).