Roger Staub Explained

Roger Staub
Disciplines:Downhill, giant slalom, slalom, combined
Club:SC Arosa
Birth Date:1 July 1936
Birth Place:Arosa, Graubünden, Switzerland
Death Place:Verbier, Valais, Switzerland
Olympicteams:2 – (1956, 1960)
Olympicmedals:1
Olympicgolds:1
Worldsteams:3 – (1956, 1958, 1960)
    includes Olympics
Worldsmedals:4
Worldsgolds:1
Show-Medals:yes

Roger Staub (1 July 1936 – 30 June 1974) was a Swiss alpine ski racer and Olympic gold medalist.

Born in Arosa, Graubünden, Staub won the giant slalom at the 1960 Winter Olympics in Squaw Valley and also won multiple medals at the 1958 World Championships. He finished fourth in the Olympic downhill in 1956 at age 19. He also won a number of Swiss national titles.

After a brief career as a professional racer in the early 1960s, Staub became ski school director at the fledgling Vail resort in Colorado.[1] He also had a ski school in Arosa and sporting goods interests in Switzerland.

During a summer visit to Switzerland in 1974 with his wife and young child, Staub was killed in a ski gliding accident near Verbier on the eve of his 38th birthday.[2]

World championship results

  Year    Age   Slalom   Giant 
 slalom 
Super-G Downhill Combined
19 not run
21 5 3 2 3
23
From 1948 through 1980, the Winter Olympics were also the World Championships for alpine skiing.

Olympic results

  Year    Age   Slalom   Giant 
 slalom 
Super-G Downhill Combined
19 not run not run
23

Notes and References

  1. News: Gold medalist Roger Staub to try indoor mountain . Montreal Gazette . 24 October 1968. 45 .
  2. News: Ski fall kills Roger Staub . Palm Beach Post . Associated Press . 1 July 1974 . C5 .