Xaver Affentranger

Xaver Affentranger
nation	Switzerland
birthday	December 1, 1897
date of death	unknown
Career
discipline	Ski jumping Nordic combined cross-country skiing
society	Lucerne Ski Club
Medal table
World Cup medals 0 × 0 × 1 ×
Nordic World Ski Championships bronze 1925 Johannisbad Nordic combination

Xaver Affentranger (born December 1, 1897 ; †?) Was a Swiss ski jumper , Nordic combined skier and cross-country skier .

Affentranger lived in Kriens and started for the then leading ski club in Lucerne .

Affentranger competed in all three disciplines at the 1924 Winter Olympics . He reached the 24th place in jumping from the normal hill. In cross-country skiing over 18 km he came in 22nd place. In the combiners he came in 17th place.

At the Nordic World Ski Championships in Johannesbad in 1925 Affentranger won the bronze medal in the individual Nordic Combined, behind the two Czechoslovaks Otakar Německý and Josef Adolf .

After his active career, he ran a sports shop on Winkelriedstrasse in Lucerne .

Web links

• Xaver Affentranger in the database of the International Ski Federation (English) - Nordic Combined
• Xaver Affentranger in the Sports-Reference database (English; archived from the original )

Individual evidence

1. ↑ ^{a b} Fredy Vogel: Krienser Sport Chronicle , page 4 ( PDF file ); Retrieved July 3, 2015