1956 Winter Olympics / Bobsleigh

Bobsleigh at the VII Olympic Winter Games
information
venue	Cortina d'Ampezzo
Competition venue	Pista Olimpica di Bob
Nations	14th
Athletes	101 (101 men)
date	January 27 to February 4, 1956
decisions	2
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Two competitions in bobsleigh took place at the VII Winter Olympics in Cortina d'Ampezzo in 1956 . The venue was the Pista Olimpica di Bob with a length of 1700 m and 16 curves.

Balance sheet

Medal table

space	country				total
1	Italy	1	2	-	3
2	Switzerland	1	-	1	2
3	United States	-	-	1	1

Medalist

competitor	gold	silver	bronze
Two-man bobsleigh	Lamberto Dalla Costa , Giacomo Conti	Eugenio Monti , Renzo Alverà	Max Angst , Harry Warburton
Four-man bobsleigh	Franz Kapus , Gottfried Diener , Robert Alt , Heinrich Angst	Eugenio Monti , Ulrico Girardi , Renzo Alverà , Renato Mocellini	Arthur Tyler , William Dodge , Charles Butler , James Lamy

Results

(all times in min)

Two-man bobsleigh

space	country	athlete	1st run	2nd run	3rd run	4th run	total
1	ITA	Italy I: Lamberto Dalla Costa , Giacomo Conti	1: 22.00	1: 22.45	1: 22.95	1: 22.74	5: 30.14
2	ITA	Italy II: Eugenio Monti , Renzo Alverà	1: 22.73	1: 22.53	1: 23.37	1: 22.82	5: 31.45
3	SUI	Switzerland I: Max Angst , Harry Warburton	1: 24.71	1: 23.81	1: 24.27	1: 24.67	5: 37.46
4th	ESP	Spain I: Alfonso de Portago , Vicente Sartorius	1: 24.81	1: 23.77	1: 24.03	1: 24.99	5: 37.60
5	United States	USA I: Waightman Washbond , Patrick Biesiadecki	1: 24.82	1: 24.15	1: 24.78	1: 24.41	5: 38.16
6th	United States	USA II: Arthur Teyler , Edgar Seymour	1: 25.41	1: 23.77	1: 24.44	1: 26.46	5: 40.08
7th	SUI	Switzerland II: Franz Kapus , Heinrich Angst	1: 24.74	1: 24.50	1: 24.70	1: 26.17	5: 40.11
8th	EUA	Germany II: Andreas Ostler , Hans Hohenester	1: 24.63	1: 24.89	1: 25.07	1: 25.54	5: 40.13
9	EUA	Germany I: Hans Rösch , Lorenz Nieberl	1: 26.92	1: 24.08	1: 25.21	1: 25.13	5: 51.34
10	GBR	Great Britain II: Stuart Parkinson , Chris Williams	1: 25.63	1: 24.53	1: 26.73	1: 25.94	5: 42.83
12	AUT	Austria I: Paul Aste , Heinrich Isser	1: 26.32	1: 25.82	1: 26.61	1: 25.22	5: 43.97
15th	AUT	Austria II: Karl Wagner , Adolf Tonn	1: 26.15	1: 27.06	1: 26.73	1: 26.35	5: 46.29

Runs 1 and 2: January 27, 1956 Runs
3 and 4: January 28, 1956

25 bobsleighs at the start, 20 of them in the ranking.

Four-man bobsleigh

space	country	athlete	1st run	2nd run	3rd run	4th run	total
1	SUI	Switzerland I: Franz Kapus , Gottfried Diener , Robert Alt , Heinrich Angst	1: 18.00	1: 17.19	1: 17.09	1: 18.16	5: 10.44
2	ITA	Italy II: Eugenio Monti , Ulrico Girardi , Renzo Alverà , Renato Mocellini	1: 17.69	1: 17.97	1: 18.13	1: 18.31	5: 12.10
3	United States	USA I: Arthur Tyler , William Dodge , Charles Butler , James Lamy	1: 17.75	1: 17.87	1: 18.25	1: 18.52	5: 12.39
4th	SUI	Switzerland II: Max Angst , Arnold Gartmann , Harry Warburton , Rolf Gerber	1: 17.41	1: 17.85	1: 18.68	1: 20.33	5: 14.27
5	ITA	Italy I: Dino De Martin , Giovanni De Martin , Giovanni Tabacchi , Carlo Da Prà	1: 18.10	1: 18.65	1: 18.50	1: 19.41	5: 14.66
6th	EUA	Germany I: Hans Rösch , Michael Pössinger , Lorenz Nieberl , Sylvester Wackerle	1: 18.61	1: 19.04	1: 19.43	1: 20.94	5: 18.02
7th	AUT	Austria II: Kurt Loserth , Wilfried Thurner , Karl Schwarzböck , Frank Dominik	1: 19.37	1: 19.12	1: 20.08	1: 19.72	5: 18.29
8th	EUA	Germany II: Franz Schelle , Jakob Nirschl , Hans Henn , Edmund Koller	1: 19.03	1: 18.84	1: 19.31	1: 21.35	5: 18.50
9	ESP	Spain I: Alfonso de Portago , Vicente Sartorius , Gonzalo Taboada , Luis Muñoz	1: 18.87	1: 19.27	1: 21.37	1: 19.08	5: 19.49
10	AUT	Austria I: Karl Wagner , Fritz Rursch , Adolf Tonn , Heinrich Isser	1: 19.60	1: 20.74	1: 19.98	1: 20.30	5: 20.62

Runs 1 and 2: February 3, 1956 Runs
3 and 4: February 4, 1956

21 bobsleighs at the start, all rated.

Web links

• Bobsleigh at the 1956 Winter Olympics in the Sports-Reference database (English; archived from the original )
• Official report of the 1956 Winter Olympics (PDF; 25.7 MB)