Hippolyt Kempf

Hippolyt Kempf (born 10 December 1965 in Lucerne) is a Swiss Nordic combined skier who competed during the late 1980s and early 1990s.

He won a complete set of Olympic medals, earning two of them at the 1988 Winter Olympics in Calgary (gold: 15 km individual, silver: 3 x 10 km team) and the third at the 1994 Winter Olympics in Lillehammer (bronze: 3 x 10 km team).

Kempf also earned a 3 x 10 km team silver medal at the 1989 FIS Nordic World Ski Championships in Lahti.

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Olympic champions in Nordic combined 10 km individual normal hill

18 km/ 15 km individual	1924: Thorleif Haug (NOR) 1928: Johan Grøttumsbråten (NOR) 1932: Johan Grøttumsbråten (NOR) 1936: Oddbjørn Hagen (NOR) 1948: Heikki Hasu (FIN) 1952: Simon Slåttvik (NOR) 1956: Sverre Stenersen (NOR) 1960: Georg Thoma (EUA) 1964: Tormod Knutsen (NOR) 1968: Franz Keller (FRG) 1972: Ulrich Wehling (GDR) 1976: Ulrich Wehling (GDR) 1980: Ulrich Wehling (GDR) 1984: Tom Sandberg (NOR) 1988: Hippolyt Kempf (SUI) 1992: Fabrice Guy (FRA) 1994: Fred Børre Lundberg (NOR) 1998: Bjarte Engen Vik (NOR) 2002: Samppa Lajunen (FIN) 2006: Georg Hettich (GER)

10 km individual normal hill	2010: Jason Lamy-Chappuis (FRA) 2014: Eric Frenzel (GER)

Awards
Preceded by Werner Günthör	Swiss Sportsman of the Year 1988	Succeeded by Tony Rominger

Authority control	WorldCat Identities VIAF: 305407423 GND: 1044000015 SUDOC: 138886377

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