Ulrich Bächli

Ueli Bächli
Full name	Ulrich Bächli
nation	Switzerland
birthday	5th January 1950
place of birth	Zurich , Zurich
size	184 cm
Weight	90 kg
Career
society	Lake Zurich bobsleigh club
status	resigned
Medal table
winter Olympics 0 × 2 × 0 × World Cup medals 0 × 3 × 1 × EM medals 1 × 2 × 2 ×
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 bronze Königssee 1979 four silver St. Moritz 1982 two  European bobsleigh championships silver Winterberg 1979 two silver Winterberg 1979 four bronze St. Moritz 1980 two gold St. Moritz 1980 four bronze Cortina d'Ampezzo two

Ulrich "Ueli" Bächli (born January 5, 1950 in Zurich , Zurich ) is a former Swiss bobsledder .

Bächli won his first international medal in 1976 when he finished second in the four-man bobsleigh at the Olympic Winter Games in Innsbruck . The team Erich Schärer , Rudolf Marti , Josef Benz and Bächli confirmed this success at the Bobsleigh World Championships in 1977 and 1978 . In 1979, Hansjörg Trachsel was in Bächli's Bob instead of Marti. Together they won bronze at the Bobsleigh World Cup in a four-man. At the European Championships in the same year , Bächli won the silver medal twice: in the two-man bobsleigh with Schärer and in the four-man bobsleigh with Schärer, Toni Rüegg and Trachsel. In 1980 he took part in his second Winter Olympics in Lake Placid . Once again he took second place with Schärer, Marti and Benz. In the same year he won bronze in a two-man with Schärer and gold in a four-man with Schärer, Marti and Benz at the European Bobsleigh Championships in St. Moritz . At the 1982 World Cup , Bächli finished second, and third at the 1982 European Championship , both in the two-man bobsleigh with Hans Hiltebrand .

Web links

• Ulrich Bächli in the Sports-Reference database (English; archived from the original )