Erwin Fassbind

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Erwin Fassbind (born July 20, 1957 ) is a former Swiss bobsleigh driver .

Career

The plumber Erwin Fassbind from the Zurich bobsleigh club began his career as a pusher for Erich Schärer . At the Swiss championships, Fassbind took fourth place with the four-man bobsleigh controlled by Schärer in 1983 and 1985, and in 1984 they were fifth. In 1986 Schärer's four took third place. At the 1986 European Championships in Igls, Fassbind was in Hans Hiltebrand's four-man bobsleigh . Hiltebrand steered the bobsleigh with the line-up Hiltebrand, Kurt Meier , Erwin Fassbind and André Kiser to the European championship title. At the 1986 World Bobsleigh Championship on the Königssee track , the Swiss four-man bobsleigh competed with Erich Schärer as pilot and won the title. Meier, Fassbind and Kiser drove to two titles in the same year with two different drivers.

In 1987 Fassbind started with Hiltebrand. At the Swiss championships, the two took second place in the two-man bobsleigh . The four-man bobsleigh with Hiltebrand, Urs Fehlmann , Fassbind and Kiser won the title at the 1987 Bobsleigh World Championship . At the 1988 Olympic Games , Hiltebrand, Fehlmann, Fassbind and Kiser took ninth place.

literature

  • Swiss Olympic Committee: Swiss Olympic leader. Calgary '88 . Bern 1988

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