Olympic medalist snowboarder Ueli Kestenholz dead at 50 after being trapped in avalanche in Swiss Alps

Source: New York Post

Snowboarder Ueli Kestenholz, an Olympic bronze medalist from Switzerland, died on Sunday after being trapped in an avalanche in the Swiss Alps. Kestenholz, who medaled while snowboarding during the sport’s introduction to the Olympics at the 1998 Nagano, Japan, Games, was mourned Tuesday by the Swiss Ski Federation, which said he was 50. Snowboarder Ueli Kestenholz, a former Olympic bronze medalist from Switzerland, died at 50 on Sunday.