Alfons Julen (20 February 1899 – 9 May 1988) was a cross country skier from
Zermatt
Zermatt () is a municipality in the district of Visp in the German-speaking section of the canton of Valais in Switzerland. It has a year-round population of about 5,800 and is classified as a town by the Swiss Federal Statistical Office (FSO).
...
, Switzerland who competed in
military patrol
Military patrol was a team winter sport in which athletes competed in cross-country skiing, ski mountaineering and rifle shooting. It was usually contested between countries or military units.
The military patrol competition encompassed 25 kil ...
at the
first winter Olympics in Chamonix in 1924. The Swiss team, which consisted of
Alfred Aufdenblatten, Julen,
Anton Julen
Anton Julen (20 February 1898 – August 1982) was a cross country skier from Zermatt, Switzerland who competed in military patrol at the first winter Olympics in Chamonix in 1924. The Swiss team, which consisted of Alfred Aufdenblatten, Alf ...
and
Denis Vaucher, finished first in the competition.
Julen competed in
cross country 18 km at the
1928 Winter Olympics
The 1928 Winter Olympics, officially known as the II Olympic Winter Games (french: IIes Jeux olympiques d'hiver; german: II. Olympische Winterspiele; it, II Giochi olimpici invernali; rm, II Gieus olimpics d'enviern) and commonly known as St. M ...
in St. Moritz, and in
military patrol
Military patrol was a team winter sport in which athletes competed in cross-country skiing, ski mountaineering and rifle shooting. It was usually contested between countries or military units.
The military patrol competition encompassed 25 kil ...
, which was a demonstration event in 1928.
[ He was brother of ]Anton Julen
Anton Julen (20 February 1898 – August 1982) was a cross country skier from Zermatt, Switzerland who competed in military patrol at the first winter Olympics in Chamonix in 1924. The Swiss team, which consisted of Alfred Aufdenblatten, Alf ...
, and cousin of the Olympians Oswald Julen (Nordic combined) and Simon Julen (cross country skiing).
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1899 births
1988 deaths
Swiss military patrol (sport) runners
Swiss male cross-country skiers
Olympic biathletes of Switzerland
Military patrol competitors at the 1924 Winter Olympics
Olympic gold medalists for Switzerland
People from Zermatt
Medalists at the 1924 Winter Olympics
Olympic cross-country skiers of Switzerland
Cross-country skiers at the 1928 Winter Olympics
Sportspeople from Valais
20th-century Swiss people
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