Urs Räber Explained

Urs Räber
Disciplines:Downhill and Combined
Club:Skiclub Wilderswil/Grindelwald
Birth Date:28 November 1958
Birth Place:Grindelwald, Switzerland
Height:5 ft 7 in (171 cm)
Wcdebut:1978
Retired:1984
Website:http://www.hotel-schoenbuehl.ch/
Olympicteams: Switzerland
Olympicmedals:0
Olympicgolds:0
Worldsteams: Switzerland
Worldsmedals:0
Worldsgolds:0
Wcseasons:6
Wcwins:2
Wcpodiums:6
Wcoveralls:0
Wctitles:1 Downhill title (1984)

Urs Räber (born 28 November 1958) is a former Swiss alpine skier, who won the 1984 World Cup in Downhill skiing.

Raber also competed in two Olympic Downhill events. Firstly at the 1980 Winter Olympics in Lake Placid, where he finished 18th in the Olympic downhill,[1] and then in the 1984 Winter Olympics in Sarajevo where he finished fifth in the Olympic downhill.[2]

Raber now owns the Hotel Schönbuhl in Wilderswil near Interlaken in the Swiss canton of Bern.[3]

World Cup Downhill victories

DateLocationRace
December 18, 1983 Downhill
January 7, 1984 Downhill

External links

Notes and References

  1. https://web.archive.org/web/20200418090952/https://www.sports-reference.com/olympics/athletes/ra/urs-raber-1.html Urs Raber at Sports Reference
  2. http://www.ski-db.com/db/profiles/rbrur.asp Urs Räber Results
  3. http://www.hotel-schoenbuehl.ch/en/info.html Hotel Schoenbuehl Informations