Gregor Stähli
Gregor Stähli (born 28 February 1968 in Zürich) is a Swiss skeleton racer who has competed since 1989. He won two bronze Winter Olympic medals in the men's skeleton, earning them in 2002 and 2006.
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Stähli also won ten medals at the FIBT World Championships, with three golds (men's skeleton: 1994, 2007, 2009), four silvers (men's skeleton: 1992, 2000, 2005, Mixed team: 2009), and three bronzes (men's skeleton: 1990, 1993; mixed team: 2007). He was overall men's Skeleton World Cup champion in 2001–02.
Stähli suffered a thigh injury during the World Cup competition in Lake Placid, New York on 20 November 2009 which eventually forced his withdrawal from the 2010 Winter Olympics in Vancouver eight weeks later.
External links
- Official website
- Gregor Staehli at the International Bobsleigh & Skeleton Federation
- Gregor Staehli at the International Olympic Committee
- Gregor Stähli at Olympics at Sports-Reference.com (archived)
- Gregor Staehli at SkeletonSport.com at Archive.today (archived 2012-05-24)
- "Staehli to miss Vancouver Games". UniversalSports.com. 15 January 2010. Accessed 28 January 2010.
- List of men's skeleton World Cup champions since 1987 (sports123.com) at the Wayback Machine (archived November 5, 2011)
- Men's skeleton Olympic medalists since 1928 (sports123.com)
- Men's skeleton world championship medalists since 1989 (sports123.com) at the Wayback Machine (archived September 29, 2007)
- Mixed bobsleigh-skeleton world championship medalists since 2007 (sports123.com) at the Wayback Machine (archived September 29, 2007)
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