Davos
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Davos (, ; or ; rm, ; archaic it, Tavate) is an Alpine resort town and a municipality in the Prättigau/Davos R ...
) is a
Swiss
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former
Alpine skier
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. He came in first in the overall
World Cup
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in 1992, and won a total of four medals at the Winter Olympics and World Championships in the combined event.
By the end of his career, he won seven world cup victories and was on the podium 26 times, the last time being in 2000. In 2002 Accola suffered a serious ankle injury, breaking both of his talus bones. In February 2005, on his 38th birthday, Accola announced that he would retire as alpine skier after nearly two decades in the sport.
He is the sixth Swiss athlete to compete at five Olympics, after middle-distance runner
Paul Martin
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, equestrians
Henri Chammartin
Henri Chammartin (30 July 1918 – 30 May 2011) was a Swiss equestrian who won an individual gold medal in dressage at the 1964 Summer Olympics in Tokyo.Gustav Fischer, javelin thrower
Urs von Wartburg
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and equestrian Christine Stückelberger.
In 2012, Accola was found not liable by Swiss courts of accidentally running over and killing a child with a
riding mower
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, as he was found to have told the nearby children not to play in the area where he was mowing multiple times.
He is the brother of fellow former alpine skier
Martina Accola
Martina Accola (born 8 March 1969, Davos) is a Switzerland, Swiss former Alpine skiing, alpine skier who competed in the 1994 Winter Olympics and 1998 Winter Olympics. She is the sister of former alpine skiing World Cup overall champion Paul Accola ...
.
World Cup victories
See also
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List of athletes with the most appearances at Olympic Games
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