Marcel Melcher

Marcel Melcher
nation	Switzerland
birthday	April 22, 1959
place of birth	Samedan
size	180 cm
job	journalist
Career
status	resigned
End of career	1996

Marcel Melcher (born April 22, 1959 ) is a Swiss sports journalist and former skeleton driver .

Melcher won the Grand National in 1979 and 1980 at the Cresta race in St. Moritz . When he won his first victory, at 19, he was the youngest winner of the race since Reto Capadrutt, who was 17 in 1930.

After his skeleton career, he took over the position of managing director in the family business and in 1990 joined Radio Piz as a freelance editor . He later became program director there. From Piz he switched to Radio Grischa , where he was also program director from 2000 to mid-2005. Melcher also worked as a freelance sports reporter for Radio 24 and other Swiss private radio stations. His main focus is on ice hockey, soccer, bobsleigh, skeleton and wrestling. When Swiss Radio and Television (SRF), he works as a sports editor and reporter since of 2007. In 2014 he commented live on the soccer World Cup final between Germany and Argentina for radio station SRF3.

Web links

• Short résumé on srf.ch (PDF)

Individual evidence

1. ↑ 125 years of the Cresta Run St. Moritz . www.spatz-zeitung.ch. Archived from the original on May 16, 2010. 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 November 26, 2010. 
2. ^ Business economist heads the Radio Grischa program . www.kleinreport.ch. Retrieved November 26, 2010.