Urs Kunz

Urs Kunz
nation	Switzerland
birthday	January 13, 1974
place of birth	Forest ,  Switzerland
size	173 cm
Weight	60 kg
Career
society	SC am Bachtel
National squad	since 1997
status	resigned
Medal table
National medals 1 × 1 × 1 ×
Swiss championships bronze 1997 Chaux-Neuve Single (NH) silver 1998 Langenbruck Single (NH) gold 2000 Les Tuffes Single (NH)
Placements in the World Cup
Debut in the World Cup	1995
Overall World Cup	19. ( 1997/98 )
Podium placements 1. 2. 3.  sprint 0 0 2

Urs Kunz (born January 13, 1974 in Wald ) is a former Swiss Nordic combined athlete .

Career

Kunz, who started for the SC am Bachel , made his international debut in the winter of 1994/95 as part of the Nordic Combined B World Cup . After good initial results there he moved to the 1995/96 season in the Nordic Combined World Cup . In his first season he already achieved 38th place overall with 190 World Cup points. A season later he was 39th overall in the World Cup with 191 points. With the 1997/98 season he had his most successful season. In the Sprint World Cups in Oberwiesenthal and Ramsau am Dachstein, he achieved his first and only two World Cup podium places as third. At the end of the season he finished 19th overall. At the 1998 Winter Olympics in Nagano he reached 18th place after only a weak jumping and a very good cross-country skiing result. In the team competition, Kunz reached seventh place with Marco Zarucchi , Andy Hartmann and Jean-Yves Cuendet . At the Swiss Championships in Nordic Combined in 1998 in Langenbruck , he won the silver medal in the individual competition behind Hartmann.

At the Nordic World Ski Championships in Ramsau in 1999 , Kunz reached 30th place in the Gundersen singles. After he reached ninth place with the team in the following team competition, he also did not finish in the sprint as 33rd.

From the 1999/00 season onwards , Kunz had to fight with significant performance losses in the World Cup. Often he even missed the points. In the French Les Tuffes , however, he was able to win his first and only national title at the Swiss Championships in Nordic Combined in 2000 . Despite this success, he ended his active combined career a little later.

Since the end of his active career, Kunz has been working in the administration of forest as a clerk in the spatial development and construction department. He is also active as a ski instructor in his free time.

successes

World Cup Statistics

The table shows the placements achieved in detail.

• 1st – 3rd place: Number of podium placements
• Top 10: Number of places in the top ten
• Points ranks: Number of placements within the point ranks
• Starts: Number of races run in the respective discipline

placement	Single a	sprint	Mass start	team		total
				sprint	Season
1st place
2nd place
3rd place		2				2
Top 10		2				2
Scoring		2				2
Starts	3	4th				7th
Status: end of career (results at FIS incomplete)

^a including individual races and Gundersen individual starts

Web links

• Urs Kunz in the database of the International Ski Association (English)
• Urs Kunz in the Sports-Reference database (English; archived from the original )

Individual evidence

1. ↑ Evaluation of the NK elite movement. Swiss Championships North. Combination.  ( Page no longer available , search in web archives )  Info: The link was automatically marked as defective. Please check the link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. (1989–2012) skispringen.ch, accessed on February 19, 2013 (PDF, 27 kB)  
2. ↑ World Ski Championships 1999 - Men's Gundersen K90 / 15.0 km in the database of the International Ski Federation (English), accessed on September 21, 2014
3. ↑ World Ski Championships 1999 - Men's Team K90 / 4x5 km in the database of the International Ski Federation (English), accessed on September 21, 2014
4. ↑ World Ski Championships 1999 - Men's Sprint K90 / 7.5 km in the database of the International Ski Federation (English), accessed on September 21, 2014
5. ↑ Swiss-Ski results list ( Memento of the original from January 30, 2010 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link has been inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. (PDF; 15 kB) 
6. ↑ Urs Kunz . Forest . Retrieved September 21, 2014.
7. ↑ Our team . Swiss ski and snowboard school Diemtigtal. Archived from the original on December 7, 2013. Info: The archive link was automatically inserted and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. Retrieved September 21, 2014.