Otto Tschudi participated at the 1968 Winter Olympics in Grenoble and at the 1972 Winter Olympics in Sapporo, and achieved four top-ten results in World Cup slalom races.
15 Facts About Otto Tschudi
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Otto Tschudi served as president of the Professional Ski Racers Association and as director of skiing at Winter Park Resort in Colorado.
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Otto Tschudi later joined the financial-service firm Montgomery Securities in San Francisco, and rose to become a partner and managing director of international sales at Thomas Weisel Partners.
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Otto Tschudi was named to the Norwegian national ski team at age 14, and attended the Riis Skole, a college-prep high school in Oslo.
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Otto Tschudi ran his first World Cup slalom at Kitzbuhel, on 21 January 1968 - a day before his 19th birthday.
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Otto Tschudi failed to finish in the GS and downhill at the 1968 Grenoble Olympics.
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Otto Tschudi arrived in Denver that June to compete in the 1970 season.
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Otto Tschudi won the 1970 NCAA downhill championship while helping the team to its 13th NCAA championship.
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Otto Tschudi repeated the downhill championship in 1971 and 1972, while winning the slalom and combined championships, and the NorAm slalom championship, in 1971.
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Otto Tschudi continued to represent the Norwegian team in international racing, posting top ten results in three more World Cup slaloms in 1970 and 1971, and winning the CanAm slalom championship.
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Otto Tschudi raced on the dual-format pro tour until 1982.
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Thereafter he focused on skiing-related businesses, launching a line of padded ski racing suits under the label Otto Tschudi Racing, and serving as director of skiing at Winter Park Resort in Colorado.
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In 1982 Otto Tschudi retired from ski racing and joined Montgomery Securities in San Francisco, using his facility with languages and extensive contacts in Europe to sell financial products in the EU.
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Today, Otto Tschudi is managing director of international sales at Stifel Nicolaus, which acquired Weisel in 2010.
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In 1992 Otto Tschudi joined the Board of Trustees of the University of Denver, where he raised the money to re-establish the ski team.