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Roger Staub at the Graubünden ski association race in Flims in 1959, a year before the Olympic gold
Roger Staub in the 1959 ski race in Flims, in the background the two lifts near Naraus

Roger Staub (born July 1, 1936 in Arosa , † June 30, 1974 in Verbier ) was a Swiss ski racer and ice hockey player .

Sports career

In his youth, Staub not only had talent on skis, but also played successfully ice hockey at EHC Arosa , with which he became Swiss champion in the position of a striker . It wasn't until he won all three races at the Swiss Junior Championships in 1955 that he finally decided to go skiing. At the 1956 Winter Olympics in Cortina d'Ampezzo , he reached fourth place in the downhill .

Two years later, at the 1958 World Ski Championships in Badgastein , he won three medals: silver in the downhill, bronze in the giant slalom and bronze in the combination . Nevertheless, he was overshadowed by the media of the superior Toni Sailer , who came first three times and second once at this event. He had a close personal friendship with Sailer throughout his life.

He celebrated Roger Staub's greatest successes at the 1960 Olympic Games in Squaw Valley when he - like his club colleague Yvonne Rüegg  - became Olympic champion in giant slalom. At first he thought he had only finished second again because the court announcer had given a wrong time. It was only after a quarter of an hour that Staub's Olympic victory was definitely certain. He was also a nine-time Swiss champion (five times in giant slalom, three times in combination and once in downhill).

At the end of the 1960/61 season, Staub resigned from active top-class sport and from then on devoted himself to setting up his own ski school, which existed until 1974 and among other things employed the ski acrobat Art Furrer as a teacher. In addition to his other activities as a winter sports director in Vail (Colorado) , he worked as a sporting goods retailer in Arosa. He also developed the Roger dust cap , a headgear that covers the entire head and only leaves the eyes uncovered. In his free time he went water skiing and won several Swiss championship titles in this sport. He was also a successful tennis player and hunter. Staub was one of the first skiers to put on ski shows with trick ski insoles. His extraordinary acrobatic skills made him one of the highlights in Ruedi Homberger's ski film The Snowboys from Arosa, for example .

Roger Staub was an uncle of the former Swiss national ice hockey player Heini Staub .

Circumstances of death

Carved door in memory of Staub's Olympic victory in the saddle hut

In 1974, dust was killed while delta flying when it fell from a height of 150 meters. With a business partner, he had acquired the general license for the sale of new American models in Switzerland and was thus on a test flight at a competition in Verbier. This further development of the hang-glider at that time had a significantly better flight performance than the devices previously used in Europe, but was not suitable for gusty winds in the Alps. At that time, the pilots did not have any emergency equipment such as an auxiliary parachute with them.

literature

  • Hans Danuser / SC Arosa (Ed.): 100 Years of Arosa Ski Club 1903-2003 , self-published by SC Arosa, Arosa 2003.
  • Hans Danuser: Arosa - as it was then , Vol. 4 (1947–1961), self-published by Danuser, Arosa 2000.
  • Elmar Brunner: 70 years EHC Arosa - A village writes Swiss sports history , self-published by F&L Planungen AG / Store Line AG, Chur 1994, p. 87 ff.
  • Swiss Ski School Arosa (Ed.): 60 Years of the Swiss Ski School Arosa , Jona 1993 (new, extended cover), pp. 30 f, 70.
  • Karl Erb : Fascination Downhill - Everything about the supreme Alpine discipline, SV international / Swiss publishing house AG, Zurich 1985, pp. 55–60, 200 f.
  • Victor J. Willi: Arosa - A Swiss sports and holiday resort presented in a novel way , Habegger Verlag, Derendingen 1979, ISBN 3-85723-127-0 , p. 111 f.
  • Ruedi Homberger, Andri Peer: AROSA - A colored illustrated book by Ruedi Homberger, text by Andri Peer, Ra Verlag, Rapperswil o. J. (around 1975), p. 25.

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Swiss television report from the 1960s on Roger Staub ( memento of the original from October 7, 2014 in the Internet Archive ) 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. , accessed November 16, 2013. @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / www.srf.ch

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personal data
SURNAME Dust, Roger
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Swiss ski racer
DATE OF BIRTH July 1, 1936
PLACE OF BIRTH Arosa
DATE OF DEATH June 30, 1974
Place of death Verbier