Roger Staub
Roger Staub ( born July 1, 1936 in Arosa, † June 30, 1974 in Verbier ) was a Swiss ski racer.
Sports career
In his youth, dust had not only talent on skis, but also successfully played hockey on EHC Arosa, with which he was Swiss champion in the position of striker. It was not until 1955 he won all three races held at the Swiss junior championships, he decided finally for skiing. At the Olympic Winter Games 1956 in Cortina d' Ampezzo, he reached the fourth place in the downhill.
Two years later, at the World Ski Championships 1958 in Bad Gastein, he won three medals: silver in the downhill bronze in the giant slalom and bronze in the combination. Nevertheless, he stood in the shadow of the medial superior Toni Sailer, the first three times and second once was at this event. With Sailer his life whom he had a great personal friendship.
Roger dust biggest success he celebrated at the 1960 Olympic Games in Squaw Valley, when he - as his club colleague Yvonne Rüegg - Olympic champion in Giant Slalom was. At first he had believed to have once again become only second because the announcer had given an incorrect time. Only after a quarter of an hour was dust Olympic victory definitely fixed. In addition, he was nine-time Swiss champion ( five times in the giant slalom, three times in the combination and once on the descent ).
End of the 1960/61 season resigned dust from the active top-level sport and devoted himself to establishing his own ski school, which existed until 1974, inter alia, the aerialist Art Furrer employed as a teacher. In addition to his other activities as a winter sports manager in Vail (Colorado ), he worked as a retailer of sporting goods in Arosa. He also developed the Roger -dust cap, a head covering that covers the whole head and just leaves open the eyes. In his spare time he went water skiing and also won in this sport some Swiss championship title. Next he was more successful tennis players and hunters. Dust was one of the first skiers, who performed with Skishows Trickskieinlagen. So its extraordinary acrobatic abilities made him, for example, one of the highlights in the ski film " The Boys from Arosa Snow " by Ruedi Homberger.
Roger Staub was an uncle of the former Swiss ice hockey international's Heini dust.
Circumstances of death
In 1974, the dust by Delta flying killed when he crashed from a height of 150 meters. He had acquired with a business partner, the general license for the distribution of new American models in Switzerland and was on a test flight in a contest in Verbier. Although this former development of the hang glider had a significantly better flight performance than the devices currently used in Europe, but was not suitable for gusty winds in the Alps. During this time had the pilots no emergency equipment such as for example an auxiliary parachute thereby.