Alois Kälin
Nordic combined, Olympic athlete
1939 –
Who is Alois Kälin?
Alois "Wisel" Kälin is a former Swiss Nordic skier who competed in the 1960s and 1970s. He won a Nordic combined silver in the at the 1968 Winter Olympics in Grenoble and a bronze in the 4 x 10 km cross-country skiing relay at the 1972 Winter Olympics in Sapporo. Additionally he won a bronze medal in the Nordic combined at the 1966 FIS Nordic World Ski Championships in Oslo.
Kälin was the first Swiss to win a Winter Olympic medal in Nordic skiing, earning his award on February 11, 1968, four days before his fellow countryman Josef Haas would earn a bronze in the 50 km cross country event. He is also the last person to earn medals in both cross country skiing and the Nordic combined at the Winter Olympics.
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- Born
- Apr 13, 1939
Einsiedeln - Also known as
- Alois Kalin
- Nationality
- Switzerland
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on July 23, 2013
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