Anthony Nash

Anthony James Dillon ("Tony") Nash , MBE (born March 18, 1936 in Amersham , Buckinghamshire ) is a former British bobsleigh pilot and Olympic champion . Together with his brakeman Robin Dixon , he formed one of the most successful two-man bobsleigh teams of the 1960s.

Nash was the director of the family-owned engineering office, which also dealt with the construction of bobsleds in the early 1960s. In 1961, Dixon was looking for a replacement for Henry Taylor , who had been involved in a car race accident, and came across Nash. Her first success was third place at the 1963 World Cup in Igls . At the Olympic Winter Games in 1964 , the career highlight followed on the same track with winning the gold medal. In the third run a bolt broke off her bobsleigh, so that a start in the decisive fourth run would not have been possible. But the Italian Eugenio Monti , one of their toughest competitors, provided a bolt from his own bob.

At the 1965 World Championships in St. Moritz , Dixon and Nash were again the fastest. They finished the 1966 World Cup in Cortina d'Ampezzo in third place. At the end of his career, he finished fifth at the 1968 Winter Olympics on the Alpe d'Huez track .

One of the curves of the Olympia Bobrun St. Moritz – Celerina is named after Nash and Dixon, the Nash-Dixon Corner .

Web links

• Anthony Nash in the Sports-Reference database (English; archived from the original )

Individual evidence

1. ↑ Jon Culley: Where are they now ?: Dixon and Nash. The Independent , February 8, 1994, accessed April 21, 2020 . 
2. ↑ Volker Kluge : Olympic Winter Games. The Chronicle . Sportverlag, Berlin 1999, ISBN 3-328-00831-4 , p. 358 .
3. ↑ Olympic Bob Run. bobmuseum.ch, accessed on April 21, 2020 .