Arnold Andenmatten

Career

As a soldier he participated in the demonstration event, military patrol. He had the military rank of a Kanonier at this time. His Swiss team (R Zurbriggen, H Zurbriggen, Vouardoux, Andenmatten) finished first in the military patrol event.

As of 2008 he still participates in ski races, for example as the eldest competitor of the Saas-Balen valley race on February 17, 2008.

Achievements

• Born in Saas-Fee, Andenmatten was the winner of the first classical glacier downhill skiing from the Allalinhorn down to Saas-Fee in 1946 (time: 8:07 minimum). In 1947 he, Robert Zurbriggen, Karl Hischier and Karl Bricker also won the revenge race in Oslo.