Alois Kälin

Alois Kälin

Medal record
Men's nordic skiing
Winter Olympic Games
	1968 Grenoble	Nordic combined
	1972 Sapporo	Cross country 4 x 10 km
World Championships
	1966 Oslo	Nordic combined

Alois "Wisel" Kälin (born April 13, 1939) is a former Swiss Nordic skier who competed in the 1960s and 1970s. He won a Nordic combined silver in the at the 1968 Winter Olympics in Grenoble and a bronze in the 4 x 10 km cross-country skiing relay at the 1972 Winter Olympics in Sapporo. Additionally he won a bronze medal in the Nordic combined at the 1966 FIS Nordic World Ski Championships in Oslo.

Kälin was the first Swiss to win a Winter Olympic medal in Nordic skiing, earning his award on February 11, 1968, four days before his fellow countryman Josef Haas would earn a bronze in the 50 km cross country event. He is also the last person to earn medals in both cross country skiing and the Nordic combined at the Winter Olympics.

References

• Alois Kaelin at the International Ski Federation. Nordic combined results. There is no listing in the cross-country skiing section.