Olympic Winter Games 1924 / Bobsleigh

Bobsleigh at the 1924 Winter Olympics
information
venue	Chamonix
Competition venue	Piste de bobsleigh des Pélerins
Nations	5
Athletes	39 (39 )
date	2-3 February 1924
decisions	1
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At the first Olympic Winter Games in Chamonix in 1924 , a bobsleigh competition was held. Both four-man and five-man bobsleighs were eligible to start. The venue was the natural track Piste de bobsleigh des Pélerins . It had a length of 1,464.97 m and consisted of 19 curves. The difference in altitude between start and finish was 156.29 m.

Medal table

space	country				total
1	Switzerland	1	-	-	1
2	Great Britain	-	1	-	1
3	Belgium	-	-	1	1

Four-man bobsleigh

(all times in min)

space	country	athlete	1st run	2nd run	3rd run	4th run	total
1	SUI	Switzerland II: Eduard Scherrer Alfred Neveu Alfred Schläppi Heinrich Schläppi	1: 27.39	1: 26.60	1: 25.02	1: 26.53	5: 45.54
2	GBR	Great Britain II: Ralph Broome Thomas Arnold Alexander Richardson Rodney Soher	1: 28.73	1: 28.67	1: 25.76	1: 25.67	5: 48.83
3	BEL	Belgium I: Charles Mulder René Mortiaux Henri Willems Paul Van den Broeck Victor Verschueren	1: 29.89	1: 34.22	1: 29.98	1: 28.20	6: 02.29
4th	FRA	France I: André Berg Henri Aldebert Georges André Jean de Suarez d'Aulan	1: 39.35	1: 34.99	1: 36.68	1: 31.93	6: 22.95
5	GBR	Great Britain I: William Horton Archibald Crabbe Francis Fairlie George Pim	1: 42.33	1: 41.28	1: 38.58	1: 38.52	6: 40.71
6th	ITA	Italy I: Lodovico Obexer Massimo Fink Paolo Herbert Giuseppe Steiner Aloise Trenker	1: 53.00	1: 49.69	1: 48.73	1: 43.99	7: 15.41
	FRA	France II: Étienne Legrand Gabriel Izard Jacques Jany Fernand Legrand	4: 29.01	-	2: 00.79	1: 56.58	DSQ
	ITA	Italy II: Luigi Tornielli Adolfo Bocchi Leonardo Bonzi Alfredo Spasciani Alberto Visconti	4: 08.44	-	-	-	DSQ
	SUI	Switzerland I: Charles Stoffel Alois Faigle Anton Guldener Edmond Laroche	5: 38.00	-	-	-	DSQ

February 2, 1924: 9:42 a.m. (1st run), 10:41 a.m. (2nd run)
February 3, 1924: 12:12 p.m. (3rd run), 1:01 p.m. (4th run)

Spectators: 1540 (1st day) and 1854 (2nd day)

9 bobsleighs at the start, 6 of them in the ranking.

The race was hit by a thaw. Bob Kismet , driven by Charles Stoffel (Switzerland I) , started the race as the favorite, but fell in the first run and gave up. France II and Italy II suffered the same fate. Eduard Scherrer (Switzerland II) set the fastest time three times. Scherrer's sleigh, which he called Acrobate , had an advantage with its extremely wide runners and reached speeds of up to 70.2 km / h.

Paul Van den Broeck and Victor Verschueren (both Bob Belgium I) also took part in the ice hockey tournament.
Henri Aldebert and Georges André (both Bob France I) also took part in the curling tournament.

Web links

• Bobsleigh at the 1924 Winter Olympics in the Sports-Reference database (English; archived from the original )
• Official report of the 1924 Winter Olympics (PDF file; 83.57 MB)