Eugenio Monti

Eugenio Monti
nation	Italy
birthday	January 23, 1928
place of birth	Toblach ,  Italy
size	172 cm
Weight	73 kg
date of death	December 1, 2003
Place of death	Belluno ,  Italy
Career
position	pilot
society	Bob Club Cortina
Medal table
Olympic medals 2 × 2 × 2 × World Cup medals 9 × 1 × 0 ×
winter Olympics silver 1956 Cortina d'Ampezzo two silver 1956 Cortina d'Ampezzo four bronze 1964 Innsbruck two bronze 1964 Innsbruck four gold 1968 Grenoble two gold 1968 Grenoble four  Bobsleigh and Skeleton World Championships gold 1957 St. Moritz two silver 1957 St. Moritz two gold 1958 Garmisch two gold 1959 St. Moritz two gold 1960 Cortina d'Ampezzo two gold 1960 Cortina d'Ampezzo four gold 1961 Lake Placid two gold 1961 Lake Placid four gold 1963 Igls two gold 1966 Cortina d'Ampezzo four

Eugenio Monti (born January 23, 1928 in Toblach , South Tyrol , † December 1, 2003 in Belluno ) was an Italian bobsleigh driver and Olympic champion .

Career

Monti won 10 medals at world bobsleigh championships in the 1950s and 1960s (including 9 gold) and was Olympic champion in two-man and four-man bobsleigh at the 1968 Olympic Games in Grenoble . His set of medals was completed by two silver medals (two and four-man bobsleigh) at the 1956 Winter Olympics in Cortina d'Ampezzo and two bronze medals in Innsbruck in 1964 . Also in 1964 he was honored with the first Pierre de Coubertin medal because he offered the later winners in the two-man bobsleigh, Anthony Nash and Robin Dixon , a replacement for a broken bolt. With these successes, he and the German Francesco Friedrich are considered to be the most successful bobsleigh driver of all time. The 18th curve of the Olympic track Cesana Pariol by Cesana ( Turin 2006 ) was named after him. After his death in 2003, the 1956 Olympic track was renamed Pista olimpica Eugenio Monti in his honor .

Web links

• Eugenio Monti in the Sports-Reference database (English; archived from the original )
• Monti's sportsmansip story at the IOC website on olympic.org
• Eugenio Monti on dolomiti.org

Individual evidence

1. ↑ Info ( memento of January 6, 2014 in the Internet Archive ) on inspire.fm
2. ↑ Ruler in the ice channel. In: Süddeutsche Zeitung . March 1, 2020, accessed April 19, 2020 .