Urs Räber

Urs Räber
 Alpine skier 
Disciplines Downhill and Combined
Club Skiclub Wilderswil/Grindelwald
Born (1958-11-28) November 28, 1958
Grindelwald, Switzerland
Height 5"7 (171cm)
World Cup debut 1978
Retired 1984
Website http://www.hotel-schoenbuehl.ch/
Olympics
Teams Switzerland Switzerland
Medals 0 (0 gold)
World Championships
Teams Switzerland Switzerland
Medals 0 (0 gold)
World Cup
Seasons 6
Wins 2
Podiums 6
Overall titles 0
Discipline titles 1 Downhill title (1984)

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

He 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]

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

World Cup Downhill victories

Date Location Race
December 18, 1983Italy Val Gardena, ItalyDownhill
January 7, 1984Switzerland Laax, SwitzerlandDownhill

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