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unusual facts about Lake St. Moritz


Lake St. Moritz

English cricketer David Gower parked his rental car on the ice in January 1990; overnight it broke through the ice and sank.


Agostino Lanfranchi

Competing in two Winter Olympics, he finished fourth in the men's skeleton event at St. Moritz in 1928, and Lake Placid, New York in 1932, he finished fifth in the four-man event and eighth in the two-man event (misspelled Agostini in the two-man event).

Arnold Rutkowski

While still a student, he made his professional debut as Ferrando in Mozart's Così fan tutte at the Rønne Theater in Bornholm, Denmark and after graduation sang in Verdi's Un giorno di regno at St. Moritz.

Chris Hughes

He is also an invitee of the Bilderberg Group and attended the Swiss 2011 Bilderberg conference at the Suvretta House in St. Moritz, Switzerland.

Dennis Field

He won the bronze medal in the four-man event at the 1931 FIBT World Championships in St. Moritz.

Elana Meyers

Meyers and brake-woman Katie Eberling placed second at the 2013 FIBT World Championships in St. Moritz .

FIBT World Championships 1938

The FIBT World Championships 1938 took place in St. Moritz, Switzerland (Two-man) and Garmisch-Partenkirchen, Germany (Four-man).

George Mara

He was a member of the Ottawa RCAF Flyers who won the gold medal in ice hockey for Canada at the 1948 Winter Olympics in St. Moritz.

Germaine Golding

Her greatest triumph were her three titles in singles, doubles and mixed at the 1922 World Covered Court Championship at St. Moritz.

Graber

Two years later a Graber bodied Panhard & Levassor 20 CV won the Concours d´Elegance at St. Moritz as a result of which the “Carrosserie Graber“ business became known across Europe.

Henri Deterding

Henri Wilhelm August Deterding KBE (Hon), (19 April 1866, Amsterdam – 4 February 1939, St. Moritz) was one of the first executives of the Royal Dutch Petroleum Company and for 36 years (1900–1936) its chairman and the chairman of the combined Royal Dutch/Shell oil company.

Henry Louis Hudson

During the 1924 Winter Olympics in Chamonix and the 1928 Winter Olympics in St. Moritz he won the gold medal in olympic ice hockey as part of the Canadian national ice hockey team.

Ice Hockey European Championship 1922

The tournament was played between February 14, and February 16, 1922, in St. Moritz, Switzerland, and it was won by Czechoslovakia.

Jamia Jackson

As a bobsledder her best Bobsleigh World Cup finish was eighth in the two-woman event at St. Moritz in January 2008.

Janet M. Anderson

Anderson’s commercial work features depictions of famous Detroit landmarks and life along the Detroit River and Lake St. Clair (her grandfather was a captain of the SS Ste. Clair).

Lake St. Clair

It was named after the Clare of Assisi, on whose feast day it was discovered by European explorers.

He named the body of water Lac Sainte-Claire as the expedition discovered it on the feast day of Saint Clare of Assisi.

Lake St. Louis, Missouri

It was completed in 1972, and Crow filed for Chapter 11 Bankruptcy in 1974 - an action brought on in part by the energy crisis.

Maryam Yusuf Jamal

Based in Lausanne, Jamal often trains at altitude in St. Moritz.

Maryville University

In addition to the Main Campus, Maryville University also operates centers in Lake St. Louis and Sunset Hills.

Max Houben

He won a silver medal in the four-man event at the 1948 Winter Olympics in St. Moritz and was the oldest medalist at the Winter Olympics (49 years, 278 days) until Canadian Russ Howard won a gold medal in men's curling at the 2006 Winter Olympics in Turin (50 years, 7 days).

Shrewsbury Road

Shrewsbury Road (Bóthar Shrewsbury in Irish) is a street in Dublin, Ireland and was the sixth-most-expensive street in the world in 2007, ahead of more well-known streets such as the Via Suvretta in St. Moritz and Carolwood Drive in Beverly Hills.

Stanley Fischer

He is a member of the Bilderberg Group and attended the Swiss 2011 Bilderberg conference in St. Moritz, Switzerland.

Stereobelt

The initial test of the device took place in February 1972 in St. Moritz, Switzerland, when Pavel pushed the play button to start the song "Push Push" by Herbie Mann and Duane Allman.

Sverre Fredheim

He competed in ski jumping at the 1936 Winter Olympics in Garmisch-Partenkirchen, and at the 1948 Winter Olympics in St. Moritz, where he placed sixth in ski jumping.

Teddy Stauffer

Annual trips to St. Moritz and Arosa, and also a guest appearance in London, were responsible for international fame of the Teddies band.

Tru Calling

Marty Adelstein, Neal H. Moritz, Dawn Parouse and R. W. (Bob) Goodwin are also executive producers.

Wilhelm Henie

Henie managed to get Sonja enrolled at the first Winter Olympics in Chamonix in 1924, and followed her to preparaions in St. Moritz prior to the games.

Yugoslavia at the 1948 Winter Olympics

Athletes from the Federal People's Republic of Yugoslavia competed at the 1948 Winter Olympics in St. Moritz, Switzerland.


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