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Bernhard Russi (born 20 August 1948) is a former World Cup alpine ski racer from Switzerland. Born in Andermatt in the canton of Uri, he is an Olympic, World Cup, and World champion in the downhill event.[1]

Bernhard Russi
Alpine skier
Bernhard Russi in 1972
DisciplinesDownhill, Giant Slalom
ClubSC Gotthard Andermatt
Born (1948-08-20) 20 August 1948 (age 74)
Andermatt, Uri, Switzerland
Height183 cm (6 ft 0 in)
World Cup debut8 January 1968 (age 19)
RetiredMarch 1978 (age 29)
Websitebernhardrussi.ch
Olympics
Teams2 – (1972, 1976)
Medals2 (1 gold)
World Championships
Teams5 – (1970–1978)
  (includes two Olympics)
Medals3 (2 gold)
World Cup
Seasons9 – (1970–1978)
Wins10 – (9 DH, 1 GS)
Podiums28 – (27 DH, 1 GS)
Overall titles0 – (5th in 1971, '72, '77)
Discipline titles2 – (2 DH: 1971, 1972)
Medal record
Men's alpine skiing
Representing   Switzerland
World Cup race podiums
Event 1st 2nd 3rd
Giant slalom 1 0 0
Downhill 9 6 12
Total 10 6 12
Olympic Games
1972 Sapporo Downhill
1976 Innsbruck Downhill
World Championships
1970 Val GardenaDownhill
1972 Sapporo Downhill
1976 Innsbruck Downhill

Racing career


Russi made his World Cup debut at age 19 in January 1968 at a giant slalom in Adelboden. After two races in 1968 and six in 1969, he joined the World Cup circuit full-time in December 1969.[2] However, his racing career was set back at this time by his work as a stuntman in the movie On Her Majesty’s Secret Service which was filmed in Switzerland and during which he fractured a cervical vertebra. After a period of rehabilitation from this injury, he was able, for the first time in several months, to compete in the Downhill Race at Val d'Isère on December 14, 1969, in which he placed 14th. He gained World Cup Points by recording his first World Cup top ten finish (tenth in the Downhill on January 10 on the Lauberhorn piste in Wengen). He went on to achieve a fourth place in the Downhill at Garmisch-Partenkirchen on February 1, leading to him being selected for the Swiss team at the 1970 World Championships, where he won his first event, the downhill, ahead of Karl Cordin of Austria and Australian Malcolm Milne. It was a race with fresh snow, and he was the 15th racer on the start list - a good number for such conditions. He won despite suffering a hand fracture a week before in a practice race, contending with the pain during his winning run. Notably, he skied his winning run without ski wax as his coach Paul Berlinger scraped the wax off his skis directly before the start. Because the World Championships counted towards the World Cup at this time, his World Championship win was also his first World Cup race victory. Two years later at the 1972 Olympics in Sapporo, Japan, he won the gold medal in the same discipline on Mt. Eniwa. Countryman Roland Collombin secured the silver and a Swiss one-two. Russi won the World Cup season title in downhill in 1971 and 1972. That year, he was named as Swiss Sportsman of the Year for the second time, and he was also awarded with the Skieur d’Or, for the world's ski racer of the year, and the Étoile d’Or (the Gold Star).

His performance in the 1974 World Championships on home snow was disappointing; he was thirteenth in the downhill at St. Moritz. At the 1976 Olympics in Innsbruck, Austria, Russi nearly retained his Olympic title with a very fast time in the downhill at Patscherkofel, but took the silver medal. The third racer on the course, he finished 0.33 seconds behind Franz Klammer of Austria, who started fifteenth, the last of the top seeds. To date (2018) no men's Olympic champion in the downhill has successfully defended his title; Russi remains the sole defender to medal.

As in 1974, his performance in the 1978 World Championships at Garmisch was disappointing, finishing fourteenth in the downhill in late January. As a result of this, he retired from international competition a few days later with ten World Cup victories, 28 podiums, and 52 top ten finishes. In addition to his two downhill titles in 1971 and 1972, Russi was second in 1973 and third in 1976 and 1977. His best finish in the overall standings was fifth, achieved three times in 1971, 1972, and 1977.[3][4]

From 1948 through 1980, the Winter Olympics also served as the world championships for alpine skiing. During the early seasons of the World Cup, the Olympics (1968) and world championships (1970) were included in the World Cup season standings; these major competitions were excluded beginning with the 1971 season.


After racing


Russi currently serves as the chairman of the FIS Alpine Committee and is a FIS technical advisor for downhill course design. Beginning with the 1988 Winter Olympics, Russi has been noted as a designer of downhill courses for the Olympics, and he has also designed such courses for the FIS Alpine Skiing World Championships. The Rattlesnake-course at Vail in 1989 was a "formidable challenge" to him. Another famous course of his was the La face de Bellevarde at Val-d’Isère (1992 Winter Olympics), and he was the construction supervisor for the Rosa Khutor course at Krasnaja Poljana (2014 Winter Olympics). This stemmed from dissatisfaction with the courses at the 1980 and 1984 games; since Russi took over, there have been few complaints.[5][6] He also serves as a commentator for alpine ski racing on Swiss television.[7] - He also is a brand ambassador for Japanese car manufacturer Subaru and for several Swiss companies. After the end of his marriage to Michèle Rubi (a three-times Swiss Skiing Champion in 1970) he married Mari Bergström from Sweden. He has a son by his first wife and a daughter by his second.


World Cup results



Season titles


SeasonDiscipline
1971Downhill
1972Downhill

Season standings


Season Age  Overall  Slalom Giant
 Slalom 
Super GDownhillCombined
19702119not
run
5awarded
only in
1976
197122581
1972235231
19732462
197425174
197526114
19762783
19772853
1978292812

Race podiums


Season Date Location Discipline Place
197015 Feb 1970 Val Gardena, Italy – (W.Ch.) ^Downhill1st
197116 Jan 1971   St. Moritz, SwitzerlandDownhill2nd
31 Jan 1971 Megève, FranceDownhill1st
13 Feb 1971 Mt. Ste. Anne, CanadaGiant Slalom1st
18 Feb 1971 Sugarloaf, USADownhill1st
19725 Dec 1972   St. Moritz, SwitzerlandDownhill1st
14 Jan 1972 Kitzbühel, AustriaDownhill3rd
1972 Winter Olympics
25 Feb 1972 Crystal Mtn, USADownhill1st
26 Feb 1972Downhill2nd
25 Mar 1972 Val Gardena, ItalyDownhill1st
19737 Jan 1973 Garmisch, West GermanyDownhill3rd
13 Jan 1973   Grindelwald, SwitzerlandDownhill1st
27 Jan 1973 Kitzbühel, AustriaDownhill2nd
3 Feb 1973 St. Anton, AustriaDownhill1st
197422 Dec 1973 Schladming, AustriaDownhill3rd
197526 Jan 1975 Innsbruck, AustriaDownhill2nd
21 Mar 1975 Val Gardena, ItalyDownhill3rd
19767 Dec 1975 Val-d'Isère, FranceDownhill3rd
9 Jan 1976   Wengen, SwitzerlandDownhill3rd
17 Jan 1976 Morzine, FranceDownhill2nd
1976 Winter Olympics
197718 Dec 1976 Val Gardena, ItalyDownhill3rd
15 Jan 1977 Kitzbühel, AustriaDownhill3rd
22 Jan 1977   Wengen, SwitzerlandDownhill3rd
30 Jan 1977 Morzine, FranceDownhill1st
31 Jan 1977Downhill3rd
18 Feb 1977   Laax, SwitzerlandDownhill3rd
12 Mar 1977 Heavenly Valley, USADownhill3rd
197822 Dec 1977 Cortina d'Ampezzo, ItalyDownhill2nd

^ Results from the 1970 World Championships (and 1968 Winter Olympics) were included in the World Cup standings.


World championship results


  Year   Age  Slalom Giant
 Slalom 
Super-GDownhillCombined
197021not
run
1
1972231
19742513
1976272
19782914

From 1948 through 1980, the Winter Olympics were also the World Championships for alpine skiing.


Olympic results


  Year   Age  Slalom Giant
 Slalom 
Super-GDownhillCombined
197223not
run
1not
run
1976272

Video



References


  1. Bernhard Russi Archived 2012-02-20 at the Wayback Machine. sports-reference.com
  2. bernhardrussi.ch (in German) – career results – accessed 2011-01-01
  3. Ski-db.com – Bernard Russi – World Cup results – accessed 2010-03-06
  4. FIS-ski.com – Bernhard Russi – World Cup season rankings – accessed 2010-03-06
  5. SKI Magazine Archived 2014-03-05 at the Wayback Machine – Bernhard Russi: Olympic Downhill Designer – 2001-10-17 – accessed 2012-03-20
  6. fisalpine.com Archived 2012-02-08 at the Wayback Machine – Next up Sochi – Interview with Bernhard Russi – 2012-02-06 – accessed 2012-03-20
  7. Swiss Community.org – people – canton of Uri – accessed 2012-03-20


Awards
Preceded by
Philippe Clerc
Swiss Sportsman of the Year
1970
Succeeded by
Meta Antenen
Preceded by
Meta Antenen
Swiss Sportsman of the Year
1972
Succeeded by
Werner Dössegger

На других языках


- [en] Bernhard Russi

[fr] Bernhard Russi

Bernhard Russi, né le 20 août 1948 à Andermatt, est un skieur alpin suisse, spécialiste de la descente, champion olympique en 1972, qui met fin à sa carrière sportive après la saison 1978 et devient le plus réputé des architectes de pistes de descente, « dessinateur » patenté des descentes olympiques à partir de 1988, imaginant notamment les parcours empruntés lors des Jeux d'Albertville 1992 (Face de Bellevarde à Val d'isère), Lillehammer 1994 (Olympiabakken à Kvitfjell), Nagano 1998 (à Hakuba), Salt Lake City 2002 (à Snowbasin) ou encore Sotchi 2014 (à Rosa Khutor) et PyeongChang 2018 (à Jeongseon).

[it] Bernhard Russi

Bernhard Russi (Andermatt, 20 agosto 1948) è un dirigente sportivo ed ex sciatore alpino svizzero. Specialista della discesa libera, è stato uno degli atleti di punta della squadra elvetica degli anni 1970; nel suo palmarès vanta, tra l'altro, la medaglia d'oro olimpica vinta a Sapporo 1972 (valida anche come titolo mondiale), la medaglia d'oro iridata di Val Gardena 1970 e due Coppe del Mondo di specialità. Dopo il ritiro è diventato dirigente nei quadri della Federazione Internazionale Sci e si è dedicato alla progettazione di piste sciistiche.

[ru] Русси, Бернард

Бернард Русси́ (нем. Bernhard Russi, 20 августа 1948 (1948-08-20), Андерматт, Ури, Швейцария) — швейцарский горнолыжник, олимпийский чемпион и чемпион мира.



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