{"id":662484,"date":"2026-01-14T08:12:13","date_gmt":"2026-01-14T08:12:13","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/fr\/662484\/"},"modified":"2026-01-14T08:12:13","modified_gmt":"2026-01-14T08:12:13","slug":"ueli-kestenholz-medaille-olympique-en-snowboard-est-mort-a-50-ans-emporte-dans-une-avalanche","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/fr\/662484\/","title":{"rendered":"Ueli Kestenholz, m\u00e9daill\u00e9 olympique en snowboard, est mort \u00e0 50 ans, emport\u00e9 dans une avalanche"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Le Suisse Ueli Kestenholz avait \u00e9crit l\u2019histoire du <a href=\"https:\/\/www.20minutes.fr\/dossier\/snowboard\" class=\"c-link c-link--is-underlined\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">snowboard<\/a>, en se hissant sur le podium de la premi\u00e8re aventure olympique de la discipline, en f\u00e9vrier\u00a01998 au <a href=\"https:\/\/www.20minutes.fr\/dossier\/japon\" class=\"c-link c-link--is-underlined\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Japon<\/a>. Alors m\u00e9daill\u00e9 de bronze en slalom g\u00e9ant aux JO de Nagano, l\u2019ancien athl\u00e8te est mort dimanche \u00e0 50 ans, emport\u00e9 par une avalanche dans le canton du Valais (<a href=\"https:\/\/www.20minutes.fr\/dossier\/suisse\" class=\"c-link c-link--is-underlined\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Suisse<\/a>).<\/p>\n<\/p>\n<p>L\u2019accident fatal s\u2019est d\u00e9roul\u00e9 dans la vall\u00e9e du L\u00f6tschental, o\u00f9 Ueli Kestenholz se trouvait en compagnie d\u2019un autre skieur. La police valaisanne indique dans un communiqu\u00e9 qu&rsquo;\u00ab\u00a0une avalanche s\u2019est d\u00e9clench\u00e9e \u00e0 environ 2.400 m d\u2019altitude pour une raison inconnue\u00a0\u00bb.<\/p>\n<p>Double champion du monde en\u00a02000 et\u00a02001<\/p>\n<p>L\u2019ex-m\u00e9daill\u00e9 olympique a \u00e9t\u00e9 h\u00e9liport\u00e9 en urgence \u00e0 l\u2019h\u00f4pital de Vi\u00e8ge, puis \u00e0 celui de Sion, o\u00f9 il est d\u00e9c\u00e9d\u00e9 dimanche. Ueli Kestenholz avait \u00e9galement pu participer \u00e0 l\u2019\u00e9preuve de <a href=\"https:\/\/www.20minutes.fr\/dossier\/slalom_geant\" class=\"c-link c-link--is-underlined\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">slalom g\u00e9ant<\/a> des JO de Salt Lake City en\u00a02002, puis au snowboardcross aux JO de Turin 2006, pour la grande premi\u00e8re de la discipline aux <a href=\"https:\/\/www.20minutes.fr\/sport\/jo\/\" class=\"c-link c-link--is-underlined\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Jeux olympiques<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.20minutes.fr\/dossier\/snowboard\" class=\"c-link c-btn c-btn--primary\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Notre dossier sur le snowboard<\/a><\/p>\n<p>On peut ajouter au palmar\u00e8s de cet ancien athl\u00e8te bernois de premier plan deux titres de champion du monde, en\u00a02000 et\u00a02001, ainsi que deux m\u00e9dailles d\u2019or aux Winter X-Games en <a href=\"https:\/\/www.20minutes.fr\/dossier\/boardercross\" class=\"c-link c-link--is-underlined\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">boardercross<\/a> (en\u00a02003 et en\u00a02004). Retrait\u00e9 des comp\u00e9titions de snowboard depuis vingt ans, ce papa de deux gar\u00e7ons se lan\u00e7ait depuis de nombreux d\u00e9fis outdoor, en freeride, parachutisme et <a href=\"https:\/\/www.20minutes.fr\/dossier\/kitesurf\" class=\"c-link c-link--is-underlined\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">kitesurf<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Le Suisse Ueli Kestenholz avait \u00e9crit l\u2019histoire du snowboard, en se hissant sur le podium de la premi\u00e8re&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":662485,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[9],"tags":[73306,76391,3983,1011,27,3996,76392,5324,69874,14346,517,60,3067],"class_list":{"0":"post-662484","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-sports","8":"tag-avalanche","9":"tag-boardercross","10":"tag-deces","11":"tag-fr","12":"tag-france","13":"tag-jeux-olympiques","14":"tag-kitesurf","15":"tag-montagne","16":"tag-slalom-geant","17":"tag-snowboard","18":"tag-sport","19":"tag-sports","20":"tag-suisse"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@fr\/115892449668989813","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/fr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/662484","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/fr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/fr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/fr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/fr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=662484"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/fr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/662484\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/fr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/662485"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/fr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=662484"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/fr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=662484"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/fr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=662484"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}