Bobsleigh at the 1956 Winter Olympics – Four-man
Bobsleigh at the 1956 Winter Olympics | |
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Two-man | men |
Four-man | men |
The four-man bobsleigh results at the 1956 Winter Olympics in Cortina d'Ampezzo, Italy. The competition was held on Friday, February 3, 1956, and on Saturday, February 4, 1956.
Medallists
Gold | Silver | Bronze |
Switzerland (SUI) Switzerland I Franz Kapus Gottfried Diener Robert Alt Heinrich Angst |
Italy (ITA) Italy II Eugenio Monti Ulrico Girardi Renzo Alverà Renato Mocellini |
United States (USA) USA I Arthur Tyler William Dodge Charles Butler James Lamy |
Results
Rank | Team | Athletes | Run 1 | Run 2 | Run 3 | Run 4 | Final |
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Gold | Switzerland (SUI) Switzerland I | Franz Kapus, Gottfried Diener, Robert Alt, & Heinrich Angst | 1:18.00 | 1:17.19 | 1:17.09 | 1:18.16 | 5:10.44 |
Silver | Italy (ITA) Italy II | Eugenio Monti, Ulrico Girardi, Renzo Alverà, & Renato Mocellini | 1:17.69 | 1:17.97 | 1:18.13 | 1:18.31 | 5:12.10 |
Bronze | United States (USA) USA I | Arthur Tyler, William Dodge, Charles Butler, & James Lamy | 1:17.75 | 1:17.87 | 1:18.25 | 1:18.52 | 5:12.39 |
4 | Switzerland (SUI) Switzerland II | Max Angst, Aby Gartmann, Harry Warburton, & Rolf Gerber | 1:17.41 | 1:17.85 | 1:18.68 | 1:20.33 | 5:14.27 |
5 | Italy (ITA) Italy I | Dino De Martin, Giovanni De Martin, Giovanni Tabacchi, & Carlo Da Prà | 1:18.10 | 1:18.65 | 1:18.50 | 1:19.41 | 5:14.66 |
6 | United Team of Germany (EUA) Germany I | Hans Rösch, Michael Pössinger, Lorenz Nieberl, & Sylvester Wackerle | 1:18.61 | 1:19.04 | 1:19.43 | 1:20.94 | 5:18.02 |
7 | Austria (AUT) Austria II | Kurt Loserth, Wilfried Thurner, Karl Schwarzböck, & Franz Dominik | 1:19.37 | 1:19.12 | 1:20.08 | 1:19.72 | 5:18.29 |
8 | United Team of Germany (EUA) Germany II | Franz Schelle, Jakob Nirschl, Hans Henn, & Edmund Koller | 1:19.03 | 1:18.84 | 1:19.31 | 1:21.35 | 5:18.50 |
9 | Spain (ESP) Spain I | Alfonso de Portago, Vicente Sartorius y Cabeza de Vaca, Gonzalo Taboada, & Luis Muñoz | 1:18.87 | 1:19.27 | 1:21.37 | 1:19.08 | 5:19.49 |
10 | Austria (AUT) Austria I | Karl Wagner, Fritz Rursch, Adolf Tonn, & Heinrich Isser | 1:19.60 | 1:20.74 | 1:19.98 | 1:20.30 | 5:20.62 |
11 | Norway (NOR) Norway I | Arne Røgden, Arnold Dyrdahl, Odd Solli, & Trygve Brudevold | 1:20.96 | 1:20.08 | 1:20.45 | 1:20.01 | 5:21.50 |
12 | Great Britain (GBR) Great Britain I | Keith Schellenberg, Rollo Brandt, Ralph Raffles, & John Rainforth | 1:21.39 | 1:18.73 | 1:20.42 | 1:21.58 | 5:22.12 |
13 | Sweden (SWE) Sweden II | Kjell Holmström, Sven Erbs, Walter Aronson, & Jan Lapidoth | 1:20.58 | 1:20.32 | 1:21.15 | 1:21.13 | 5:23.18 |
14 | Romania (ROU) Romania I | Heinrich Enea, Dumitru Peteu, Nicolae Moiceanu, & Mărgărit Blăgescu | 1:21.53 | 1:20.58 | 1:20.64 | 1:20.44 | 5:23.19 |
15 | Poland (POL) Poland I | Stefan Ciapała, Jerzy Olesiak, Józef Szymański, & Aleksander Habala | 1:19.95 | 1:20.25 | 1:21.10 | 1:22.19 | 5:23.49 |
16 | Sweden (SWE) Sweden I | Olle Axelsson, Ebbe Wallén, Sune Skagerling, & Gunnar Åhs | 1:18.95 | 1:19.98 | 1:22.75 | 1:21.86 | 5:23.54 |
17 | Great Britain (GBR) Great Britain II | Stuart Parkinson, John Read, Christopher Williams, & Rodney Mann | 1:20.72 | 1:19.92 | 1:22.51 | 1:20.58 | 5:23.73 |
18 | France (FRA) France I | André Robin, Pierre Bouvier, Jacques Panciroli, & Lucien Grosso | 1:20.00 | 1:21.25 | 1:20.95 | 1:21.63 | 5:23.83 |
19 | United States (USA) USA II | James Bickford, Donald Jacques, Lawrence McKillip, & Hubert Miller | 1:20.97 | 1:22.47 | 1:21.22 | 1:20.50 | 5:25.16 |
20 | Romania (ROU) Romania II | Constantin Dragomir, Vasile Panait, Ion Staicu, & Gheorghe Moldoveanu | 1:21.21 | 1:21.22 | 1:22.37 | 1:23.03 | 5:27.83 |
21 | Poland (POL) Poland II | Aleksy Konieczny, Zygmunt Konieczny, Włodzimierz Źróbik, & Zbigniew Skowroński/Jan Dąbrowski(*) | 5:28.40 |
(*) NOTE: Jan Dąbrowski replaced Zbigniew Skowroński after two runs.
References
- 1956 bobsleigh four-man results
- Wallechinsky, David (1984). "Bobsleigh: Four-Man". In The Complete Book of the Winter Olympics. New York: Penguin Books. p. 561.
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