Theo Schmidhauser
Theo Schmidhauser (born January 23, 1959 in St. Gallen ) is a Swiss sports bowler. Between 1977 and 1993 he was a total of 20 Swiss champions and 9 vice Swiss champions in various disciplines. In 1983, at the age of 24, he was also the youngest Swiss individual champion of all time.
Sports career
Schmidhauser started in 1977 at the age of 18 in category 4 and was trained by his father. The first two years were accompanied by many failures. Schmidhauser trained a lot and tried again and again to improve his performance with unconventional methods.
In 1980 he had his real breakthrough in category 3. This year he achieved no fewer than 50 category victories and also made people sit up and take notice with his results in the upper categories. He managed to win the tournament three times out of category 3, something that a bowling player has never achieved before. From then on it went very steeply: 1981 in category 2 54 category victories and vice Swiss champion and 2nd in the Swiss Individual Cup. Also in 1981 Schmidhauser qualified for the strong St. Gallen Canton team and was immediately rewarded with the silver medal. From this year on he was a member of this successful canton team 10 times without interruption and was no less than 5 times Swiss cantons champion.
His sports career was crowned in 1983 with the Swiss individual champion in Winterthur and that at his 1st Swiss championship in category 1. 1985 (Swiss championships only take place every two years) Schmidhauser was then also the first sports bowler who was able to defend his title in the top division.
In 1984 Schmidhauser obtained the training manager diploma at the Federal Sports School in Magglingen.
Sporting successes
- 2 × Swiss Individual Champion (1983/1985) / 1 × Vice (1981)
- 2 × Swiss Individual Cup winners (1985/1990) / 2 × Vice (1981/1986)
- 1 × Swiss club champion KK Tannenberg (1990)
- 5 × Swiss cantons champions St. Gallen (1982/1983/1986/1989/1990) / 4 × vice (1981/1985/1987/1988)
- 9 × Swiss PTT Champion (1981/1982/1983/1985/1987/1988/1989/1992/1993) / 2 × Vice (1986/1990)
- 1 × Swiss company sports champion (1991)
- 32 × canton champions in the cantons: SG, ZH, AR, SH, TG, LU
- 6 × Association Master of the Principality of Liechtenstein
- 160 tournament wins
- 254 category victories
- 47 track records
Guinness Book of Records
In 1991 Theo Schmidhauser and his long-time friend Urs Leidi set a new world record in continuous bowling. Schmidhauser / Leidi skittles for 26 hours ( 4071 litters, 1251 Babeli ) on the lanes of the Säntispark amusement park in Abtwil SG . They moved a weight of 38 tons and achieved the fabulous average of 7.34 cones per throw.
References: Blick 7./9. December 1991 and Eastern Switzerland December 9, 1991
Profession / private
After basic postal training, Schmidhauser graduated in 1995 with very good success. Trained IT coordinator and then worked for 10 years as a system manager at the district post office in St. Gallen.
Schmidhauser has been married to Christa Scheiwiller since 1997, has three children and lives in Abtwil SG.
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Schmidhauser, Theo |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | Swiss sports bowlers |
| DATE OF BIRTH | January 23, 1959 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | St. Gallen |