Gian Simmen

Gian Simmen is a Swiss snowboarder, born on 19 February 1977 in Chur, Graubünden, who won the gold medal in the men's halfpipe at the 1998 Winter Olympics in Nagano. He competed at three Olympic Games in all, finishing 18th in the halfpipe in 2002 and 19th in 2006, and Olympedia records that he carried the flag of Switzerland at the opening ceremony of the 2002 Games. Olympedia also lists him as a nephew of the Swiss Olympian Jöri Mattli, and gives his height and weight as 174 centimetres and 68 kilograms. The account here rests on his English Wikipedia article, which is short, with the Olympedia athlete page as a second source for his results.