Willy Steuri

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Willy Steuri Alpine skiing
nation SwitzerlandSwitzerland Switzerland
birthday March 4, 1912
date of death 1978
Career
discipline Slalom , downhill , combination
society SC Kleine Scheidegg
Medal table
World championships 0 × gold 0 × silver 3 × bronze
FIS Alpine World Ski Championships
bronze St. Moritz 1934 slalom
bronze Murren 1935 Departure
bronze Chamonix 1937 combination
 

Willy Steuri (* March 4, 1912 ; † 1978 ), more rarely Willi Steuri , was a Swiss ski racer in the 1930s. From 1934 to 1937 he won three bronze medals at world championships and in 1935 the combination of the Lauberhorn race and the descent of the Arlberg-Kandahar race .

Career

Willy Steuri, who started for the Kleine Scheidegg ski club, achieved greater successes at the Lauberhorn races in Wengen . There he was on the podium for the first time in 1931 with two third places in downhill and slalom and the resulting second place in the combination. The next year he was second in the downhill and third in the combination on the Lauberhorn. At the “Great Ski Races in Switzerland”, the Swiss ski championship, he won the junior class downhill run in Zermatt in 1932 and the senior class II downhill run in Einsiedeln . In the same year, he came third in the combination for the first time at the Arlberg-Kandahar in Mürren. Race a podium. In 1934, Willy Steuri competed in a world championship for the first time in St. Moritz . In the slalom, he immediately won the bronze medal behind Franz Pfnür and David Zogg . He was eleventh in the downhill and fifth in the combination. At the 28th major Swiss ski race in Andermatt , he was third in the downhill (Senior I) and winner of the slalom in the Senior II class and on March 9, 1934, he won the Kandahar Decenary Race in Mürren on the occasion of the Kandahar Ski Club's tenth anniversary .

The winter of 1935 brought Steuri great success: he won the bronze medal in the downhill at the world championship in Mürren, but only came in 32nd in the slalom and thus in 13th place in the combination . He won the Arlberg-Kandahar races at the same location the descent and was third in the combination. At the Lauberhorn race in Wengen he won the combination and was second in both downhill and slalom, whereupon he was the first ever to be awarded the Lauberhorn snow crystal in gold for five podium places in downhill and slalom (the combination is not counted). At the Great Swiss Ski Race in Grindelwald in 1935, he finished second in the downhill and at the French Championships in Chamonix he came second in the downhill, third in the slalom and thus second in the combination (0.03 points behind François Vignole ). He also achieved second place in the downhill and third place in the combination at the Megève Grand Prix .

Willy Steuri did not take part in the 1936 Winter Olympics , when alpine skiing competitions were held for the first time. The Swiss federation did not send a men's alpine team to Garmisch-Partenkirchen . At the 1936 World Championships in Innsbruck two weeks later , Steuri, who started with number one, had a hard fall in the descent and was eliminated. He couldn't compete in the slalom the next day. He was successful again at the 1937 World Championships in Chamonix, where he won the bronze medal in the combination with fifth place in the downhill and seventh in slalom. At the Grand Swiss Ski Race in Les Diablerets in 1937 , Steuri won the slalom title and came second in the downhill. At the Arlberg-Kandahar race in Mürren in the same year he narrowly missed a podium as fourth in the slalom.

In the following years, Willy Steuri did not reach any top placements at world championships. In 1938 in Engelberg he was only 35 after a fall in the downhill - he could not take part in the slalom the next day - and remained in Zakopane in 1939 after a disqualification in the downhill with no result. He had a minor success in 1938 at the No-Fall Championship for the Sunday Times Cup in Wengen, where he finished third, as in 1936. At the Swiss ski race in 1938 he still achieved third place in the slalom (Seniors I). In 1942 he competed again at the Swiss ski race in Grindelwald, but did not achieve any top placements.

Statistics & Achievements

World championships

More Achievements

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ information from Marco Bomio, head of Grindelwald Museum .
  2. ^ Rudolf Rubi : The summer and winter health resort: roads and railways, winter sports. (= In the valley of Grindelwald . Volume III). Verlag Sutter Druck, Grindelwald 1987, p. 173.
  3. ^ Rudolf Rubi : The summer and winter health resort: roads and railways, winter sports. (= In the valley of Grindelwald . Volume III). Verlag Sutter Druck, Grindelwald 1987, pp. 197-198.
  4. ↑ 26th big Swiss ski race in Zermatt. In: Yearbook of the Swiss Ski Association. Volume 28, 1932. pp. 148-160.
  5. ↑ 27. Big Switzerland. Ski races in Einsiedeln. In: Yearbook of the Swiss Ski Association. 29th year, 1933. pp. 158-168.
  6. ^ Fritz Ringgenberg: 4th Arlberg-Kandahar ski race in Mürren. In: The mountain hare. Yearbook of the Swiss Academic Ski Club. Volume 2, No. 7, 1933, pp. 403-407.
  7. ↑ a b c Results of the Arlberg-Kandahar races 1928–1955 ( Memento from October 29, 2013 in the Internet Archive ) ( PDF file, 23 kB).
  8. ↑ In the database of the International Ski Federation FIS ( entry Willi Steuri ), Fritz Steuri's top 6 placements from 1931 to 1933 Willy Steuri are incorrectly credited .
  9. ^ Heinz Schiller: The FIS races in St. Moritz 15./17. February 1934. In: The mountain hare. Yearbook of the Swiss Academic Ski Club. Volume 3, No. 8, 1934, pp. 103-112.
  10. ↑ 28. Big Switzerland. Ski races in Andermatt. In: Yearbook of the Swiss Ski Association. Volume 30, 1934. pp. 170-181.
  11. ^ Arnold Lunn : London Letter. In: The Canadian Amateur Ski Association (Ed.): Canadian Ski Year Book 1934. John Lovell & Son, Montreal 1934, p. 25.
  12. ↑ Hans Stuber: FIS races for downhill and slalom in Mürren. In: Yearbook of the Swiss Ski Association. 31st year, 1935. pp. 163–167.
  13. ↑ Othmar Gurtner : FIS report from Mürren, 22. – 25. February 1935. In: The mountain hare. Yearbook of the Swiss Academic Ski Club. Volume 3, No. 9, 1935, pp. 230-241.
  14. ^ Fritz Ringgenberg: 8th Arlberg-Kandahar race in Mürren. 9/10 March 1935. In: The mountain hare. Yearbook of the Swiss Academic Ski Club. Volume 3, No. 9, 1935, pp. 242-244.
  15. ^ A b Hans Stuber: Annual report of the technical management. In: Yearbook of the Swiss Ski Association. 31st year, 1935. p. 138.
  16. ↑ Martin Born: Lauberhorn - the story of a myth. AS Verlag, Zurich 2004, ISBN 3-909111-08-4 , p. 37.
  17. ^ A b Rudolf Rubi : The summer and winter health resort: roads and railways, winter sports. (= In the valley of Grindelwald . Volume III). Verlag Sutter Druck, Grindelwald 1987, p. 198.
  18. ↑ 29. Big Switzerland. Ski races in Grindelwald. In: Yearbook of the Swiss Ski Association. 31st year, 1935. pp. 143–155.
  19. ^ Walter Amstutz : The Olympic Winter Games in Garmisch-Partenkirchen. In: The mountain hare. Yearbook of the Swiss Academic Ski Club. Volume 3, No. 10, 1936, p. 357.
  20. ^ Heinrich Fueter: The World Championships 1936 in Innsbruck. In: The mountain hare. Yearbook of the Swiss Academic Ski Club. Volume 3, No. 10, 1936, p. 366.
  21. ↑ Othmar Gurtner: The Innsbruckiade. In: The mountain hare. Yearbook of the Swiss Academic Ski Club. Volume 3, No. 10, 1936, p. 314.
  22. ^ Dwight Shepler: Lunacy at the FIS In: Canadian Amateur Ski Association (Ed.): Canadian Ski Year Book 1936-37. John Lovell & Son, Montreal 1936, p. 102.
  23. ↑ Courses de la FIS in Chamonix. In: Yearbook of the Swiss Ski Association. Volume 34, 1938. pp. 102-104.
  24. ^ Walter Amstutz : The World Ski Championships 1937. In: Der Schneehase. Yearbook of the Swiss Academic Ski Club. Volume 3, No. 11, 1937, pp. 513-516.
  25. ↑ 31 mes Courses nationales suisses de ski aux Diablerets. In: Yearbook of the Swiss Ski Association. Volume 34, 1938. pp. 97-100.
  26. ^ GA Michel: For the 10th Arlberg-Kandahar race. In: The mountain hare. Yearbook of the Swiss Academic Ski Club. Volume 3, No. 11, 1937, pp. 523-526.
  27. ^ FIS races in Engelberg. In: Yearbook of the Swiss Ski Association. Volume 34, 1938. pp. 110-114.
  28. ↑ Results of the Alpine World Ski Championships in 1939. In: alpineskiing-worldchampionships.com. Archived from the original on October 1, 2011 ; accessed on April 3, 2017 .
  29. ↑ Downhill Only. The Annual Journal of the Downhill Only Club. Vol. 1, No. 1, October 1936, p. 32.
  30. ↑ Downhill Only. The Annual Journal of the Downhill Only Club. Vol. 1, No. 3, October 1938, p. 23.
  31. ↑ 32nd Swiss ski race in Wengen. In: Yearbook of the Swiss Ski Association. Volume 34, 1938. pp. 105-110.
  32. ↑ 36th Swiss Ski Race in Grindelwald In: Yearbook of the Swiss Ski Association. Volume 38, 1942. pp. 38-50.
personal data
SURNAME Steuri, Willy
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Steuri, Willi
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Swiss ski racer
DATE OF BIRTH March 4, 1912
DATE OF DEATH 1978