Pirmin Zurbriggen

— Alpine skier —

Zurbriggen in 2014

Disciplines

Downhill, Super G,
Giant slalom, Slalom,
Combined

Born

4 February 1963 (age 54)
Saas Almagell, Switzerland

Height

1.83 m (6 ft 0 in)

World Cup debut

4 January 1981 – (age 17)

Retired

17 March 1990 – (age 27)

Website

zurbriggen.ch

Olympics

Teams

2 – (1984,'88)

Medals

2 (1 gold)

World Championships

Teams

4 – (1982–89)

Medals

9 (4 gold)

World Cup

Seasons

10 – (1981–90)

Wins

Podiums

Overall titles

4 – (1984,'87,'88,'90)

Discipline titles

Medal record

Men's Alpine Skiing
Representing Switzerland
Olympic Games
	1988 Calgary	Downhill
	1988 Calgary	Giant Slalom
World Championships
	1985 Bormio	Downhill
	1985 Bormio	Combined
	1987 Crans-Montana	Super-G
	1987 Crans-Montana	Giant Slalom
	1985 Bormio	Giant Slalom
	1987 Crans-Montana	Downhill
	1987 Crans-Montana	Combined
	1989 Vail	Super-G
	1989 Vail	Giant Slalom

Pirmin Zurbriggen (born 4 February 1963) is a former World Cup alpine ski racer from Switzerland. One of the most successful ski racers ever, he won the overall World Cup title four times, an Olympic gold medal in 1988 in Downhill, and 9 World Championships medals (4 gold, 4 silver, 1 bronze).

Zurbriggen was born in Saas-Almagell in the canton of Valais, the son of Alois, an innkeeper, and Ida. His father competed as a ski racer in local competitions in the 1940s and 1950s, but quit the sport after his brother was killed in a training accident. Zurbriggen made his World Cup debut in January 1981, a month before his 18th birthday. With his victory in the downhill at Kitzbühel in January 1985 at age 21, he became the first to win World Cup races in all five disciplines. (The fifth discipline, Super G, was added in December 1982.)(Marc Girardelli, the second to enter this exclusive circle, won his first downhill race four years later at the same place).

Zurbriggen retired from international competition after having won the 1990 World Cup overall title – his fourth, which was then the most overall titles won by a single racer, reached only once before by Gustav Thöni in 1975. Again it was Marc Girardelli who followed him in 1991 with a fourth overall title, and Girardelli added another in 1993 to become the only male racer with five overall titles in World Cup history.

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