Ivan Brown
Ivan Elmore Brown (born April 17, 1908 in Keene Valley , New York , † May 22, 1963 in Hartford , Connecticut ) was an American bobsledder and Olympic champion .
Brown and his partner Alan Washbond formed one of the world's most successful two-man bobsleigh teams in the 1930s. They won the North American Championship in 1935, 1938 and 1939 and the Championship of the Amateur Athletic Union in 1934, 1938 and 1939 . They celebrated their greatest success at the 1936 Winter Olympics in Garmisch-Partenkirchen , when they won the gold medal in the two-man bobsleigh. Brown later moved to Hartford, where he worked as a machinist for many years.
Web links
- Ivan Brown in the Sports-Reference database (English; archived from the original )
1932: H. Stevens , C. Stevens | 1936: Brown , Washbond | 1948: Endrich , Waller | 1952: Ostler , Nieberl | 1956: Dalla Costa , Conti | 1964: Nash , Dixon | 1968: Monti , De Paolis | 1972: Zimmerer , Utzschneider | 1976: Taken , Germeshausen | 1980: Schärer , Benz | 1984: Hoppe , Schauerhammer | 1988: Ķipurs , Koslow | 1992: Weder , Acklin | 1994: Weder , Acklin | 1998: Lueders , MacEachern / Huber , Tartaglia | 2002: Langen , Zimmermann | 2006: Lange , Kuske | 2010: Lange , Kuske | 2014: Hefti , Baumann | 2018: Friedrich , Margis / Kripps , Kopacz
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| SURNAME | Brown, Ivan |
| ALTERNATIVE NAMES | Brown, Ivan Elmore |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | American bobsledder |
| DATE OF BIRTH | April 17, 1908 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Keene Valley |
| DATE OF DEATH | May 22, 1963 |
| Place of death | Hartford, Connecticut |