Richard Bühler grew up in La Gittaz, Sainte-Croix and was the winner of the junior Swiss title in ski jumping in 1935. Selected to compete at the 1936 Garmisch-Partenkirchen Olympic Winter Games, he finished 19th in a field of 48 competitors in the men’s large hill event. He also competed at the World Nordic Ski Championships in 1937, finishing in 9th place, one place behind fellow compatriot Marcel Reymond. A member of Ski-Club Sainte-Croix, Bühler later captured the Swiss national men’s title in 1941. Predeceased by his wife in the year prior, Bühler died of a heart attack at his home in L’Auberson, Sainte-Croix in 1959 at the age of 44.
Switzerland