Otto Tschudi

Otto Tschudi
Born(1949-01-22)22 January 1949
NationalityNorwegian
Occupations

Otto Victor Tschudi Jr. (born January 22, 1949) is a Norwegian alpine skier best known for success in the American NCAA Skiing Championships and World Pro Skiing ski racing circuits. He participated at the 1968 Winter Olympics in Grenoble and at the 1972 Winter Olympics in Sapporo,[1] and achieved four top-ten results in World Cup slalom races.[2] Between 1970 and 1972 he won five individual NCAA championships for the University of Denver Pioneers ski team while the team won two team championships. After the Sapporo Olympics Tschudi competed for eight seasons on the World Pro Skiing Tour, leading the Rossignol international team. He served as president of the Professional Ski Racers Association and as director of skiing at Winter Park Resort in Colorado. Tschudi later joined the financial-service firm Montgomery Securities in San Francisco, and rose to become a partner and managing director of international sales at Thomas Weisel Partners (now Stifel Financial).[3]

  1. ^ "Otto Tschudi". Sports-Reference. Archived from the original on 18 April 2020. Retrieved 18 March 2011.
  2. ^ "FIS bio Otto Tschudi". Retrieved 25 October 2018.
  3. ^ "DU alum to be inducted into skiing hall of fame". Retrieved 25 October 2018.