Ueli Kestenholz, Date of Birth, Place of Birth

Ueli Kestenholz

snowboarder

Date of Birth: 10-May-1975

Place of Birth: Thun, canton of Bern, Switzerland

Profession: snowboarder

Nationality: Switzerland

Zodiac Sign: Taurus

Ueli Kestenholz (born 10 May 1975) is a Swiss snowboarder and Speedriding pioneer. Kestenholz was Snowboard World Champion in 2000 and 2001.
He won the first ever Olympic Medal in Snowboarding: Bronze at the 1998 Winter Olympics (Giant Slalom).
He's a two times Gold medalist/Winner at the Winter X-Games in Boardercross/BoarderX. After his third Olympic Games of Torino 2006, Ueli quit the Worldcup circuit to focus 100% on Freeriding.
Besides Freeriding on a Snowboard, he became one of the pioneers of Speedriding/Speedflying in Switzerland.
Together with Mathias Roten they created Playgravity, an award winning multisport-movie, showing their amazing speedriding-descent of Eiger, Monch and Jungfrau in one day.
In May 2009 he did a speedriding first descent of the famous Matterhorn.