Rudolf Marti

Ruedi Marti
Full name	Rudolf Marti
nation	Switzerland
birthday	April 7, 1950
size	176 cm
Weight	85 kg
Career
status	resigned
Medal table
winter Olympics 0 × 2 × 0 × World Cup medals 0 × 2 × 0 × EM medals 1 × 0 × 0 ×
winter Olympics silver Innsbruck 1976 four silver Lake Placid 1980 four  Bobsleigh and Skeleton World Championships silver St. Moritz 1977 four silver Lake Placid 1978 four  European bobsleigh championships gold St. Moritz 1980 four

Rudolf "Ruedi" Marti (born April 7, 1950 ) is a former Swiss bobsleigh athlete .

Marti's active career was short but successful. He won his first international medal at the 1976 Winter Olympics in Innsbruck . With his teammates Erich Schärer , Ulrich Bächli and Josef Benz , he won silver in the four-man bobsleigh. At the Bobsleigh World Championships in 1977 and 1978 , he also won silver in a foursome with the same team. Marti experienced his second Olympic Winter Games in Lake Placid in 1980 . There he came second again with Schärer, Bächli and Benz. He won the gold medal with this team at the 1980 European Bobsleigh Championships in St. Moritz . After this season, Marti resigned from competitive sports.

Before he turned to bobsleigh, Marti was active in athletics . In 1968 he was national champion of the juniors in the pole vault .

Web links

• Rudolf Marti in the database of Sports-Reference (English; archived from the original )