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Toni Steurer

Toni Steurer

German extreme sports athlete

Anton "Toni" Steurer (born 1 December 1978) is a German extreme sports athlete and non-commissioned officer.

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Steurer was born in Oberstdorf. Having climbed the Eiger Nordwand at the age of seventeen, he is one of the youngest mountaineers to have ever done so. He is currently deployed as a medical service soldier and army mountain guide in Kempten, Germany. He is member of the DAV section Oberstaufen and part of the German skimountaineering team. Besides mountain climbing, he also practices biking, skiing and other sports. In 2002, the UN International Year of Mountains, he and Walter Hölzler from Thalkirchdorf climbed the three summits of Piz Palü in a Hat-trick within 24 hours.[1]

Selected results

Mountain running

  • 2000:
    • 2nd, CISM Military World Games, Kamerun (20 January)
    • German course record, Tour de Matterhorn (together with Matthias Robl and Christian Kerber)[2]

Ski mountaineering

Patrouille des Glaciers

Main article: Patrouille des Glaciers
  • 2006: 7th (and 2nd "seniors II" ranking) as well as German record, together with Franz Graßl and Martin Echtler[4]
  • 2008: 8th (and 6th in the "international men" ranking), together with Franz Graßl and Stefan Klinger

References and notes

  1. [1]
    Bernina Express – alle 3 Pfeilerrouten in 24h (German), www.bergsteigen.at, 19 March 2002.
  2. [2]
    Frank Gerbert: Extremsport: Tour de Matterhorn (German), Focus No. 20 (2000).
  3. [3]
    including six penalty minutes because of forgotten material
  4. [4]
    2006 Patrouille des Glaciers Archived 13 November 2007 at the Wayback Machine, p. 16.
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