Charles Stoffel

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Charles Stoffel (* 1893 ; † 1970 ) was a Swiss all-round athlete ( bobsleigh and riding ) and Olympic participant from 1924 and 1928.

Together with Alois Faigle, Anton Guldener and Edmund LaRoche, Charles Stoffel from Arosa drove with his Bob Kismet to the first Olympic Winter Games in Chamonix in 1924 . There he was considered a favorite. But the persistent thaw caused his bobsleigh to fall in the first run. Stoffel then gave up. At the II. Olympic Winter Games in St. Moritz in 1928 , he then took eighth place in the Switzerland I bobsleigh with H. Höhnes, L. Loch, E. Coppetti and René Fonjallaz.

Charles Stoffel was also an excellent rider and as such competed in the Summer Olympics. At the Games of the 8th Olympiad in Paris in 1924 , he was part of the Swiss military team with his horse, the Crusader, and finished fourth with her. In the individual competition, he was fifteenth. Four years later it was enough for the IX games. Olympiad 1928 in Amsterdam on Attila only to place twenty in the individual competition. The Swiss team did not finish the competition. His also riding son Alexander Stoffel took part in 1952 and 1956.

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SURNAME Stoffel, Charles
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Swiss bobsleigh riders and riders
DATE OF BIRTH 1893
DATE OF DEATH 1970