Heinrich fear

Heinrich "Heiri" fear (born August 29, 1915 , † September 9, 1989 ) was a Swiss bobsleigh driver who was 1956 Olympic champion in the four-man bobsleigh .

At the 1948 Winter Olympics in St. Moritz, Switzerland's Felix Endrich and Fritz Waller won the two-man bobsleigh ahead of the second Swiss bobsleigh with Fritz Feierabend and Paul Eberhard . A week later, the Swiss four-man bobsleigh, Waller, Endrich and Heinrich Angst competed as Bobsleigh Switzerland I, while Paul Eberhard started in Franz Kapus’s Bob Switzerland II . The Bobsleigh Switzerland I led after the first run, but was unable to defend the top position after heavy snowfall and ended up in fourth place.

The following year, after work and fear, Endrich and Waller won the silver medal in the two-man bobsleigh at the 1949 Bobsleigh World Championship . In the four-man bobsleigh two sledges from the United States won, behind them after work, Werner Spring , Waller and Angst won the bronze medal. In 1950 Heinrich Angst switched to Franz Kapus. Behind the American defending champion Benham's bobsleigh and behind Feierabends Team Kapus, Franz Stöckli , Hans Bolli and Heinrich Angst took third place in the four-man bobsleigh at the 1950 World Bobsleigh Championship . A year later, the German pilot Anderl Ostler won the 1951 Bobsleigh World Championship ahead of Benham, followed by Kapus, Stöckli, Bolli and Angst as last year with the bronze medal. At the 1952 Olympics , Feierabend and Endrich drove the Swiss teams in both the two-man and four-man bobsleigh. Kapus and Stöckli sat in Endrich's four-man bobsleigh, while Heinrich Angst and Hans Bolli did not compete.

It wasn't until the 1954 Bobsleigh World Cup that fear won a medal again. The four-man bobsleigh with Harry Warburton , Gottfried Diener and Heinrich Angst, controlled by Fritz Feierabend , won the title in front of two German bobsleighs. In 1955, Feierabend and Warburton won the two-man bobsleigh at the Bobsleigh World Championships , while Kapus and Angst won bronze medals behind the Austrians Paul Aste / Josef Isser . In the four-man bobsleigh, Kapus and Diener won, Robert Alt and Heinrich Afraid of the bobsleigh with after work and Warburton. At the end of his career, Angst won Olympic gold at the 1956 Olympic Games in Cortina d'Ampezzo. After taking seventh place in the two-man bobsleigh with Kapus, Kapus, Diener, Alt and Heinrich Angst won the title in the four-man bobsleigh. Fourth place went to the bobsleigh, driven by Heinrich's brother Max Angst , after Max Angst had previously won bronze in the two-man bobsleigh with Harry Warburton.

Heinrich Angst started for the Zurich Bob Club . He had already opened his own butcher's shop in 1942, which he expanded into a business with several production facilities and branches over the next few decades. In 1972 the company was converted into a public limited company.

Web links

• Heinrich Angst in the database of Sports-Reference (English; archived from the original )
• World championships in two-man bobsleigh
• World championships in four-man bobsleigh

Footnotes

1. ↑ History of Angst AG (accessed on January 30, 2017)