Marcel Rohner (sometimes shown as Marcel Röhner; born 21 June 1964, in
Baar, Switzerland
Baar () is a municipality in the canton of Zug in Switzerland.
History
Baar is first mentioned in 1045 as ''Barra''.
Geography
Baar has an area, , of . Of this area, 51% is used for agricultural purposes, while 25% is forested. Of the rest ...
) is a
Swiss bobsledder who competed in the 1990s. At the
1998 Winter Olympics
The 1998 Winter Olympics, officially known as the and commonly known as Nagano 1998 ( ja, 長野1998), was a winter multi-sport event held from 7 to 22 February 1998, mainly in Nagano, Japan, with some events taking place in the ...
in
Nagano Nagano may refer to:
Places
* Nagano Prefecture, a prefecture in Japan
** Nagano (city), the capital city of the same prefecture
*** Nagano 1998, the 1998 Winter Olympics
*** Nagano Olympic Stadium, a baseball stadium in Nagano
*** Nagano Universi ...
, he won a silver medal in the four-man event with teammates
Markus Nüssli
Markus Nüssli (born 9 July 1971) is a Swiss bobsledder who competed in the 1990s. At the 1998 Winter Olympics in Nagano, he won a silver medal in the four-man event with teammates Marcel Rohner, Markus Wasser and Beat Seitz
Beat ...
,
Markus Wasser
Markus Wasser (born 7 May 1968) is a Swiss bobsledder who competed in the 1990s. At the 1998 Winter Olympics in Nagano, he won a silver medal in the four-man event with teammates Marcel Rohner, Markus Nüssli and Beat Seitz.
Wasser als ...
and
Beat Seitz
Beat Seitz (born 28 October 1973) is a Swiss bobsledder who competed in the 1990s. At the 1998 Winter Olympics
The 1998 Winter Olympics, officially known as the and commonly known as Nagano 1998 ( ja, 長野1998), was a winter mult ...
.
Rohner also won two silver medals in the four-man event at the
FIBT World Championships
The IBSF World Championships (known as the FIBT World Championships until 2015), part of the International Bobsleigh and Skeleton Federation, have taken place on an annual basis since 1930. Starting with 2002, championships of non-Winter Olympi ...
, earning them in
1996 and
1999
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In
Bobsleigh World Cup
The Bobsleigh World Cup is an annual bobsleigh competitions. It has taken place since the 1984 Winter Olympics
The 1984 Winter Olympics, officially known as the XIV Olympic Winter Games ( Serbo-Croatian and Slovene: ''XIV. Zimske olimpijske ...
, he won the four-man event both in 1996-97 and in 1999-2000, and the combined men's event in 1999-2000.
References
Bobsleigh four-man Olympic medalists for 1924, 1932-56, and since 1964*
ttps://web.archive.org/web/20080409025356/http://sports123.com/bob/mwc-4.html List of four-man bobsleigh World Cup champions since 1985br>
List of two-man bobsleigh World Cup champions since 1985
1964 births
Bobsledders at the 1998 Winter Olympics
Living people
Medalists at the 1998 Winter Olympics
Olympic bobsledders for Switzerland
Olympic medalists in bobsleigh
Olympic silver medalists for Switzerland
People from Baar, Switzerland
Sportspeople from the canton of Zug
Swiss male bobsledders
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