1966 World Bobsleigh Championship

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The 24th Bobsleigh World Championship took place in 1966 on the Pista olimpica di bob in Cortina d'Ampezzo in Italy . Cortina hosted the World Cup for the sixth time.
The four-man bobsleigh competition was canceled after the fatal accident of the German Anton Pensperger . He received the gold medal posthumously as well as his team members Ludwig Siebert , Helmut Wurzer and Roland Eberhart .

Results (two-man bobsleigh)

29./30. January 1966

space country athlete Time (min)
1 ITA II Eugenio Monti / Sergio Siorpaes 5: 07.52
2 ITA I Gianfranco Gaspari / Leonardo Cavallini 5: 10.09
3 GBR Anthony Nash / Robin Dixon 5: 12.75
4th FRG I Anton Pensperger / Ludwig Siebert 5: 15.12
5 ROU I Ion Panțuru / Nicolae Neagoe 5: 15.33
6th AUT Erwin Thaler / Reinhold Durnthaler 5: 16.05
0 ...

Medal table

space country gold silver bronze total
1 Italy 1 1 0 2
2 BR Germany 1 0 0 1
3 Great Britain 0 0 1 1

literature

  • Hamburger Abendblatt , edition of February 7th, 1966: "I only know that we flew", report on the fatal fall on the bobsleigh run in Cortina