Swiss
Swiss most commonly refers to:
* the adjectival form of Switzerland
* Swiss people
Swiss may also refer to: Places
* Swiss, Missouri
* Swiss, North Carolina
* Swiss, West Virginia
* Swiss, Wisconsin
Other uses
* Swiss Café, an old café located ...
ski mountaineer
Ski mountaineering (abbreviated to skimo) is a skiing discipline that involves climbing mountains either on skis or carrying them, depending on the steepness of the ascent, and then descending on skis. There are two major categories of equipment ...
biathlete
The biathlon is a winter sport that combines cross-country skiing and rifle shooting. It is treated as a race, with contestants skiing through a cross-country trail whose distance is divided into shooting rounds. The shooting rounds are not ti ...
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Biography
Buchs started competition sports at the age of 14 years and became a member of the national "juniors" biathlon team at the age of 16. Four years later he became a member of the national "seniors" team, but had to leave it because of time reasons. He won six Swiss championship of cross-country skiing relay titles.
He competed several times in the
Patrouille des Glaciers
The Patrouille des Glaciers (PDG) is a ski mountaineering race organised every two years by the Swiss Armed Forces, in which military and civilian teams compete. It takes place once every two years at the end of April, in the south part of the ca ...
race, and placed four times first and one time second with his teams. Professionally he is deployed in the 5th Border Guard Corps. He is married with two children and lives in
Ulrichen
Ulrichen is a village in the municipality of Obergoms in the district of Goms in the canton of Valais in Switzerland. The population () was 219.
Ulrichen was an independent municipality until January 1, 2009, when it merged with Oberwald and O ...
. Together with his wife Marianne and his son Yannick he competed in the ''Baschi Triathlon'' in 2007.''Baschi Triathlon 2007 – Rangliste Teams'' (German), Münster-Geschinen, 2007.
Selected results
Biathlon
* 1997:
** 1st, Swiss Championship relay
Ski mountaineering
* 2000:
** 1st and course record, ''Tour de
Matterhorn
The , ; ; ; or ; ; . is a mountain of the Alps, straddling the Main chain of the Alps, main watershed and border between Italy and Switzerland. It is a large, near-symmetric pyramidal peak in the extended Monte Rosa area of the Pennine Alps, ...
Rico Elmer
Rico Elmer (born 23 July 1969) is a Switzerland, Swiss ski mountaineer and Mountain running, mountain runner.
Elmer was born in Elm, Glarus, village of Elm in the canton of Glarus. He first competed in the Patrouille des Glaciers event in 1996 a ...
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* 2001:
** 4th,
Trofeo Mezzalama
The Mezzalama Trophy (, , a.k.a. ''white marathon''Michel Chesaux and André Rey
* 1992: 2nd (international military teams ranking), together with Michel Chesaux and André Rey
* 1996: 1st (international military teams ranking), together with Damien Farquet and André Rey
* 1998: 1st, together with Pvt E-2 Damien Farquet and Pvt E-2 Rico Elmer
* 2000: 1st and course record, together with Pvt E-2 Damien Farquet and Pvt E-2 Rico Elmer''2000 Patrouille des Glaciers'' p. 2.