Alois Kälin
Appearance
Medal record | ||
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Men's Nordic skiing | ||
Representing Switzerland | ||
Olympic Games | ||
1968 Grenoble | Nordic combined | |
1972 Sapporo | Cross country 4 x 10 km | |
World Championships | ||
1966 Oslo | Nordic combined |
Alois "Wisel" Kälin (born 13 April 1939) is a former Swiss Nordic skier who competed in the 1960s and 1970s. He won a Nordic combined silver at the 1968 Winter Olympics in Grenoble and a bronze in the 4 x 10 km cross-country skiing relay at the 1972 Winter Olympics in Sapporo. Additionally he won a bronze medal in the Nordic combined at the 1966 FIS Nordic World Ski Championships in Oslo.
Kälin was the first Swiss to win a Winter Olympic medal in Nordic skiing, earning his award on 11 February 1968, four days before his fellow countryman Josef Haas would earn a bronze in the 50 km cross country event. He is also the last person to earn medals in both cross-country skiing and the Nordic combined at the Winter Olympics.
External links
[edit]- Alois Kaelin at the International Ski and Snowboard Federation (Nordic combined results)
- Alois Kälin at Olympics at Sports-Reference.com (archived)
Categories:
- 1939 births
- Living people
- Nordic combined skiers at the 1964 Winter Olympics
- Nordic combined skiers at the 1968 Winter Olympics
- Swiss male Nordic combined skiers
- Swiss male cross-country skiers
- Olympic medalists in cross-country skiing
- Olympic medalists in Nordic combined
- FIS Nordic World Ski Championships medalists in Nordic combined
- Medalists at the 1972 Winter Olympics
- Medalists at the 1968 Winter Olympics
- Olympic silver medalists for Switzerland
- Olympic bronze medalists for Switzerland
- Olympic cross-country skiers for Switzerland
- Olympic Nordic combined skiers for Switzerland
- Cross-country skiers at the 1964 Winter Olympics
- Cross-country skiers at the 1968 Winter Olympics
- Cross-country skiers at the 1972 Winter Olympics
- 20th-century Swiss sportsmen
- Nordic skiing biography stubs
- Swiss cross-country skiing biography stubs