1957 World Bobsleigh Championship

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The 16th Bobsleigh World Championship took place from February 2 to 10, 1957 in St. Moritz , Switzerland . World champion in two-man were the Italians Eugenio Monti and Renzo Alverà that Viererbobkonkurrenz won the Bob Switzerland I .

Results

Two-man bobsleigh

space country athlete Time (min)
1 ITA II Eugenio Monti / Renzo Alverà 5: 17.94
2 USA I Arthur Tyler / Thomas Butler 5: 19.51
3 ESP Alfonso de Portago / Luis Muñoz 5: 20.70
4th ITA I Lamberto Dalla Costa / Giacomo Conti 5: 22.31
5 SUI I Hans Zoller / Hans Theler 5: 23.96
6th GBR I Schellenberg / Williams 5: 24.53
7th POL I Ciapala / Szymanski 5: 24.96
8th FRG II Andreas Ostler / Michael Pössinger 5: 24.98

Date: February 3, 1957
To date this is the only medal that Spain has won at a World Bobsleigh Championship . In the same year, Marques Alfonso de Portago had a fatal accident in a Ferrari at the Mille Miglia car race in Italy.

Four-man bobsleigh

space country athlete Time (min)
1 SUI I Hans Zoller , Hans Theler ,
Rolf Küderli , Heinz Leu 		5: 11.45
2 ITA II Eugenio Monti , Ferdinando Piani ,
Lino Pierdica , Renzo Alverà 		5: 12.93
3 USA I Arthur Tyler , John Cole ,
Robert Hagemes , Thomas Butler 		5: 13.34
4th ITA I 5: 22.31
5 FRG I Hans Rösch / ... 5: 14.83
0 ...
8th FRG II Franz Schelle / ... ...

Date: February 10, 1957

Medal table

space country gold silver bronze total
1 Italy 1 1 0 2
2 Switzerland 1 0 0 1
3 United States 0 1 1 2
4th Spain 0 0 1 1

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