Felix Endrich

Felix Endrich
nation	Switzerland
birthday	December 5, 1921
date of death	January 31, 1953
Place of death	Garmisch-Partenkirchen
Career
discipline	Two - man four- man bobsleigh
society	Lake Zurich bobsleigh club
Medal table
Olympic medals 1 × 0 × 0 × World Cup medals 2 × 1 × 1 ×
winter Olympics gold 1948 St. Moritz Two-man bobsleigh  Bobsleigh and Skeleton World Championships silver 1947 St. Moritz Two-man bobsleigh gold 1947 St. Moritz Four-man bobsleigh gold 1949 Lake Placid Two-man bobsleigh bronze 1951 Alpe d'Huez Two-man bobsleigh gold 1953 Garmisch-Partenkirchen Two-man bobsleigh

Felix Endrich (born December 5, 1921 , † January 31, 1953 in Garmisch-Partenkirchen ) was a Swiss bobsleigh athlete and Olympic champion

Endrich, who starts for the Lake Zurich Bobsleigh Club , took part in the Olympic Games twice. In 1948 he was Olympic champion in the two-man bobsleigh and fourth in the four-man bobsleigh at the Winter Olympics in St. Moritz . At the Olympic Winter Games in Oslo in 1952 , he finished fourth in the two-man and four-man bobsleigh.

At the 1947 bobsleigh world championship , he was still behind Fritz Feierabend in the four-man bobsleigh , and in the two-man bobsleigh he took second place with his permanent co-driver Fritz Waller . In 1949 Endrich and Waller won the world championship in two-man bobsleigh. In 1951 Endrich won bronze with Werner Spring . In 1953 he won the world championship in the two-man bobsleigh with his brakeman Fritz Stöckli . A week after winning the title on the Rießersee Olympic bobsleigh run , he had a fatal accident there when he was thrown out of the notorious Bayern curve in the four-man bobsleigh . Endrich suffered a broken neck and died on the way to the hospital.

literature

• Bodo Harenberg (Red.): The stars of sport from A – Z. Darmstadt 1970.

Web links

• Felix Endrich in the database of Sports-Reference (English; archived from the original )

Individual evidence

1. ^ Photograph "... Felix Endrich's death in 1953" . In: Süddeutsche Zeitung . ( sueddeutsche.de [accessed on January 8, 2017]).
2. ↑ Life insurance . In: Der Spiegel . No. 7 , 1953 ( online - 11 February 1953 ).