Urs Lehmann

Urs Lehmann ( born April 1, 1969 in Rudolfstetten ) is a retired Swiss ski racer.

In 1987, he won the Junior World Ski Championships in Hemsedal in the downhill gold medal, what distinguished him the Swiss Sports Aid Foundation as a Swiss student athletes of the year.

He was. During the World Ski Championships 1993 in Morioka - Shizukiushi world champion in the downhill and took at that time the only medal for Switzerland The Aargau is next to Peter Müller the only Swiss skiing champion, who is not from the Alpine region.

In the Ski World Cup, he was less successful: Overall, he was also placed in the top ten five times, four times in a downhill and once in a super -G. His best result was on 11 December 1992 a fourth place in the downhill in Val Gardena. In the spring of 1997, he announced his retirement.

He studied in St. Gallen and Zurich Business Administration and graduated in 2009 with a doctorate from. Since January 2009 he is the Managing Director (CEO) of the Swiss company Similasan AG, a company for the manufacture of homeopathic medicines. In addition, he is co-commentator at the television Euro Sport for transfers of alpine ski racing. Lehmann is married to the former Swiss freestyle skier Conny Kissling since 1 June 2002 and has a daughter (* 2004). August 26, 2006 Lehmann was elected to the Presidium of the Swiss Ski Association. Meanwhile, delegates' meeting of 5 July 2008, elected Lehmann president.

Urs Lehmann 2013 was nominated along with four other persons as a possible winner of the Arosa Humor shovel, a jury award of the Arosa Humour Festival.

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