È morto Alfred Prucker, pioniere delle discipline nordiche italiane

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Alfred died Prucker, pioneer of the Italian Nordic disciplines

A few months after the death of Nile Zandanel disappears another pioneer of the Italian Nordic disciplines. On Sunday & egrave; In fact, failure to all''et & agrave; 89 years old Alfred Prucker.

Tuesday 24 November 2015 2 minutes reading time

Born in Ortisei 15 May 1926, Prucker has successfully practiced internationally Nordic combined (proving competitive even against the specialists and cross-country skiers) between the 'immediate post-war and half & agrave; the early '50s. Shareholding & ograve; Olympic Games in St. Moritz in 1948 in both the cross-country skiing in the combined. Skiing is close Piazz & ograve; twenty-ninth in the 18 km, while among the Combiners concluded in fourteenth place. The same experiments were repeated four years later in Oslo 1952 when he closed the thirty-eighth in 18 km of skiing and twelfth in the Nordic combined. Finally in Cortina d''Ampezzo in 1956, in its third Olympic participation, race & ograve; both jumping (where concludes thirty) that in the Nordic combined, which Piazz & ograve; eighth. It & egrave; graduate champions' Italy in the Nordic combined for six times (1950, 1952, 1953, 1954, 1956) also getting two seconds (1948 and 1951) and third place (1950). He also picked up two third places in the absolute bottom (1954 and 1956).

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