Ivo Rüegg
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Ivo Rüegg (born 15 April 1971) is a Swiss bobsledder who competed between 1996 and 2010.[2] He won five medals at the FIBT World Championships with two golds (Two-man: 2009, Four-man: 2007), two silvers Two-man: 2007, Mixed team: 2009), and a bronze (Mixed team: 2007).
Rüegg grew up in Tuggen and took part in several different sports in his youth, including skiing, gymnastics, athletics, football and ice hockey. He acted as a forerunner for the prestigious Lauberhorn downhill race in Wengen, and also competed in Europa Cup and FIS Tour alpine skiing events before leaving the sport in the early 1990s due to back problems. In addition he competed in steinstossen (stone-throwing) competitions (winning multiple national individual and team titles) and decathlon during the 1990s, breaking the decathlon points record for the canton of Schwyz in 1994 and 1996 and setting a personal best of 7,071 points.[2]
He first tried bobsleigh as a push athlete in 1992, before starting as a driver in 1996[2] and taking the Swiss junior title the same year and taking two bronze medals at the 1997 Junior World Championship.[1] In his subsequent career he won one bronze and five silver medals in the Bobsleigh European Championship, one World Cup race (a two-man event at Cesana Pariol in 2007)[2] and four Swiss national titles (two in each of the two-man and four man disciplines).[1]
Rüegg competed in two Winter Olympics, earning his best finish of fourth in the two-man event at Vancouver in 2010.
He won the Bobsleigh World Cup championship in the two-man event in 2009-10. In May 2010 he announced his retirement from top-level sporting competition.[2]
Ivo is the nephew of Tony Rüegg and Max Rüegg, the cousin of Ralph Rüegg, and the brother of Reto Rüegg, all of whom were also bobsledders.[2]
References
- Ivo Rueegg at the International Bobsleigh & Skeleton Federation
- Ivo Rueegg: Yahoo! Sports profile for the 2006 Winter Olympics at the Wayback Machine (archived 14 October 2012)
- Ivo Rüegg at Olympics at Sports-Reference.com (archived)
- ETH Zuerich (4 September 2009). "New Bobsled CITIUS Handed Over To Olympic Squad". ScienceDaily. Retrieved 20 February 2010.
- Bobsleigh two-man world championship medalists since 1931
- Bobsleigh four-man world championship medalists since 1930
- List of two-man bobsleigh World Cup champions since 1985
- Mixed bobsleigh-skeleton world championship medalists since 2007
- ^ a b c d e f g h "The Greatest Successes of Ivo Rüegg". ivo-ruegg.ch. Retrieved 28 January 2014.
- ^ a b c d e f "Athletic Biography of World Champion Bobsledder Ivo Rüegg". ivo-ruegg.ch. Retrieved 28 January 2014.
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- 1931: Germany (Hanns Kilian, Sebastian Huber)
- 1933: Romania (Alexandru Papană, Dumitru Hubert)
- 1934: Romania (Alexandru Frim, Vasile Dumitrescu)
- 1935: Switzerland (Reto Capadrutt, Emil Diener)
- 1937: Great Britain (Frederick McEvoy, Brian Black)
- 1938: Germany (Bibo Fischer, Rolf Thielecke)
- 1939: Belgium (René Lunden, Jeans Coops)
- 1947: Switzerland (Fritz Feierabend, Stephan Waser)
- 1949: Switzerland (Felix Endrich, Friedrich Waller)
- 1950: Switzerland (Fritz Feierabend, Stephan Waser)
- 1951: West Germany (Andreas Ostler, Lorenz Nieberl)
- 1953: Switzerland (Felix Endrich, Fritz Stöckli)
- 1954: Italy (Guglielmo Scheibmeier, Andrea Zambelli)
- 1955: Switzerland (Fritz Feierabend, Harry Warburton)
- 1957–60: Italy (Eugenio Monti, Renzo Alverà)
- 1961: Italy (Eugenio Monti, Sergio Siorpaes)
- 1962: Italy (Rinaldo Ruatti, Enrico de Lorenzo)
- 1963: Italy (Eugenio Monti, Sergio Siorpaes)
- 1965: Great Britain (Tony Nash, Robin Dixon)
- 1966: Italy (Eugenio Monti, Sergio Siorpaes)
- 1967: Austria (Erwin Thaler, Reinhold Durnthaler)
- 1969: Italy (Nevio de Zordo, Adriano Frassinelli)
- 1970: West Germany (Horst Floth, Pepi Bader)
- 1971: Italy (Gianfranco Gaspari, Mario Armano)
- 1973–74: West Germany (Wolfgang Zimmerer, Peter Utzschneider)
- 1975: Italy (Giorgio Alverà, Franco Perruquet)
- 1977: Switzerland (Hans Hiltebrand, Heinz Meier)
- 1978–79: Switzerland (Erich Schärer, Joseph Benz)
- 1981: East Germany (Bernhard Germeshausen, Hans-Jürgen Gerhardt)
- 1982: Switzerland (Erich Schärer, Max Rüegg)
- 1983: Switzerland (Ralph Pichler, Urs Leuthold)
- 1985–86: East Germany (Wolfgang Hoppe, Dietmar Schauerhammer)
- 1987: Switzerland (Ralph Pichler, Celeste Poltera)
- 1989: East Germany (Wolfgang Hoppe, Bogdan Musioł)
- 1990: Switzerland (Gustav Weder, Bruno Gerber)
- 1991: Germany (Rudolf Lochner, Markus Zimmermann)
- 1993: Germany (Christoph Langen, Peer Joechel)
- 1995: Germany (Christoph Langen, Olaf Hampel)
- 1996: Germany (Christoph Langen, Markus Zimmermann)
- 1997: Switzerland (Reto Götschi, Guido Acklin)
- 1999: Italy (Günther Huber, Enrico Costa, Ubaldo Ranzi)
- 2000: Germany (Christoph Langen, Markus Zimmermann)
- 2001: Germany (Christoph Langen, Marco Jakobs)
- 2003: Germany (André Lange, Kevin Kuske)
- 2004: Canada (Pierre Lueders, Giulio Zardo)
- 2005: Canada (Pierre Lueders, Lascelles Brown)
- 2007–08: Germany (André Lange, Kevin Kuske)
- 2009: Switzerland (Ivo Rüegg, Cédric Grand)
- 2011: Russia (Alexandr Zubkov, Alexey Voyevoda)
- 2012: United States (Steven Holcomb, Steven Langton)
- 2013: Germany (Francesco Friedrich, Jannis Bäcker)
- 2015–20: Germany (Francesco Friedrich, Thorsten Margis)
- 2021: Germany (Francesco Friedrich, Alexander Schüller)
- 2023: Germany (Johannes Lochner, Georg Fleischhauer)
- 2024: Germany (Francesco Friedrich, Alexander Schüller)
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