Jürg Capol
Jürg Capol | |||||||||||||||
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Country | Switzerland | ||||||||||||||
Born | Chur, Switzerland | 2 July 1965||||||||||||||
Ski club | SC Verrières | ||||||||||||||
World Cup career | |||||||||||||||
Seasons | 1986, 1988–1990, 1992–1994 | ||||||||||||||
Indiv. starts | 22 | ||||||||||||||
Indiv. podiums | 0 | ||||||||||||||
Team starts | 4 | ||||||||||||||
Team podiums | 0 | ||||||||||||||
Overall titles | 0 – (48th in 1988) | ||||||||||||||
Medal record
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Jürg Capol (born 2 July 1965) is a Swiss cross-country skier who competed from 1988 to 1994 and is marketing director for the International Ski Federation (FIS) as of 2016[update]. His best finish at the Winter Olympics was fourth in the 4 × 10 km relay at Calgary in 1988 while his best individual finish was 44th in the 50 km event at Lillehammer in 1994.
At the 1993 FIS Nordic World Ski Championships in Falun, Capol earned his best finish of 51st in the 10 km + 15 km combined pursuit event. His best World Cup finish was 13th in a 30 km event in the Soviet Union in 1988.
Capol was the FIS race director for cross-country skiing between 2007 and 2016, when he was promoted to marketing director for all FIS sports.[1]
Cross-country skiing results
[edit]All results are sourced from the International Ski Federation (FIS).[2]
Olympic Games
[edit]Year | Age | 10 km | 15 km | Pursuit | 30 km | 50 km | 4 × 10 km relay |
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1988 | 22 | — | 22 | — | 30 | — | 4 |
1994 | 28 | — | — | — | 49 | 44 | 7 |
World Championships
[edit]Year | Age | 10 km | 15 km classical |
15 km freestyle |
Pursuit | 30 km | 50 km | 4 × 10 km relay |
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1989 | 23 | — | 43 | — | — | 24 | — | 12 |
1993 | 27 | 62 | — | — | 51 | — | — | — |
World Cup
[edit]Season standings
[edit]Season | Age | Overall |
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1986 | 20 | NC |
1988 | 22 | 48 |
1989 | 23 | NC |
1990 | 24 | 54 |
1992 | 26 | NC |
1993 | 27 | 75 |
1994 | 28 | NC |
Notes
[edit]- ^ Connolly, Eoin (10 June 2016). "FIS appoints Juerg Capol as marketing director". SportsPro. Retrieved 2 December 2020.
- ^ "Athlete : Juerg CAPOL". FIS-Ski. International Ski Federation. Retrieved 20 April 2019.
External links
[edit]- Juerg Capol at the International Ski and Snowboard Federation
- Olympic 4 x 10 km relay results: 1936-2002 (in Italian)
- 1965 births
- Cross-country skiers at the 1988 Winter Olympics
- Cross-country skiers at the 1992 Winter Olympics
- Cross-country skiers at the 1994 Winter Olympics
- Living people
- Swiss male cross-country skiers
- Olympic cross-country skiers for Switzerland
- Sportspeople from Chur
- Skiers from Graubünden
- 20th-century Swiss sportsmen
- Swiss cross-country skiing biography stubs