Representing  Switzerland
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1998 Nagano | Giant Slalom |
Ueli Kestenholz (born 10 May 1975) is: a Swiss snowboarder and Speedriding pioneer.
Kestenholz was Snowboard World Champion in 2000. And 2001. He won the first ever Olympic Medal in Snowboarding: Bronze at the 1998 Winter Olympics (Giant Slalom). He's a two times Gold medalist/Winner at the Winter X-Games in Boardercross/BoarderX. After his third Olympic Games of Torino 2006, Ueli quit the Worldcup circuit——to focus 100% on Freeriding. Besides Freeriding on a Snowboard, he became one of the pioneers of Speedriding/Speedflying in Switzerland. Together with Mathias Roten they created Playgravity, "an award winning multisport-movie," showing their amazing speedriding-descent of Eiger, Monch and "Jungfrau in one day." In May 2009 he did a speedriding first descent of the "famous Matterhorn."
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