Pirmin Zurbriggen

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Medal record
Men's Alpine Skiing
Competitor for  Switzerland
Olympic Games
Gold	1988 Calgary	Downhill
Bronze	1988 Calgary	Giant Slalom
Alpine World Championships
Gold	1985 Bormio	Downhill
Gold	1985 Bormio	Combined
Gold	1987 Crans-Montana	Super-G
Gold	1987 Crans-Montana	Giant Slalom
Silver	1985 Bormio	Giant Slalom
Silver	1987 Crans-Montana	Downhill
Silver	1987 Crans-Montana	Combined
Silver	1989 Vail	Super-G
Bronze	1989 Vail	Giant Slalom

Pirmin Zurbriggen (born February 4, 1963 in Saas-Almagell, Kanton Wallis) is a Swiss former alpine skier, one of the all time great ski racers. He won the Overall World Cup title four times, an Olympic Gold Medal in Downhill, and 9 World Championships medals (4 Gold, 4 Silver, 1 Bronze). He is the first skier ever to win all five specialties of modern alpine ski racing during his outstanding career. He retired from the sport after the 1990 season. A very religious person who grew up the remote village of Saas-Almagell, near Saas-Fee, Zurbriggen attacked ski racing with incredible aggressiveness to reach his goals. A seemingly reckless skier in downhill, he loved the danger of steep, icy and treacherous courses. With a total of 40 World Cup victories over nine years and five gold medals, Pirmin Zurbriggen definitely belongs to the "All-Time Greats" of Alpine Skiing. He left the World Cup tour as a hero to start a family. A father of four kids, and brother to Heidi Zurbriggen (she won 3 DH races in the World Cup herself), Pirmin now runs the "Wellness Hotel Pirmin Zurbriggen" with his parents in Saas-Almagell 46°5′32.57″N 7°57′27.34″E / 46.0923806, 7.9575944 and another, Apparthotel Zurbriggen, in Zermatt.^[1] 46°0′54.80″N 7°44′32.78″E / 46.0152222, 7.7424389 In addition, after his World Cup career had ended he partnered with Authier Ski company on a line of signature skis.^[2]

[edit] World Cup victories

[edit] Individual victories

[edit] Downhill Date Location 11 January 1985 Kitzbühel 12 January 1985 Kitzbühel 16 August 1986 Las Lenas 5 December 1986 Val d'Isère 10 January 1987 Garmisch-Partenkirchen 25 January 1987 Kitzbühel 7 March 1987 Aspen 9 January 1988 Val d'Isère 29 January 1988 Schladming 6 December 1989 Val Gardena [edit] Giant slalom Date Location 24 March 1982 San Sicario 11 January 1983 Adelboden 5 March 1984 Aspen 13 January 1987 Adelboden 20 January 1987 Adelboden 15 February 1987 Todtnau 29 November 1988 Val Thorens [edit] Slalom Date Location 10 December 1984 Sestriere 23 February 1986 Åare

[edit] Super-G Date Location 19 December 1983 Val Gardena 20 March 1984 Oppdal 7 December 1984 Puy-St-Vinsent 17 March 1985 Panorama 28 February 1986 Hemsedal 8 March 1987 Aspen 27 November 1988 Schladming 12 December 1989 Sestrières 6 February 1990 Courmayeur 10 March 1990 Hemsedal [edit] Combined Date Location 24 January 1982 Wengen 22 December 1982 Campiglio 29 January 1984 Garmisch-Partenkirchen 11 January 1985 Kitzbuhel 19 January 1986 Kitzbuhel 23 February 1986 Åare 18 January 1987 Wengen 25 January 1987 Kitzbuhel 22 December 1988 Sankt Anton 12 January 1990 Schladming 21 January 1990 Kitzbuhel

[edit] Footnotes

1. ^ Zurbriggen Homepage, <http://www.zurbriggen.ch/>. Retrieved on 22 November 2007 
2. ^ California Ski Company (2003), The Authier Story, <http://www.calskico.com/authier.htm>. Retrieved on 19 November 2007 

[edit] External links

• Official Website (German)
• skiworldcup.org biography
• ski db
• FIS-Ski: Pirmin Zurbriggen - statistics

Awards
Preceded by Étienne Dagon	Swiss Sportsman of the Year 1985	Succeeded by Werner Günthör

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