Reto Capadrutt

Reto Capadrutt
nation	Switzerland
birthday	March 4, 1912
place of birth	Chur ,  Switzerland
date of death	February 3, 1939
Place of death	St. Moritz ,  Switzerland
Career
End of career	1939
Medal table
Olympic medals 0 × 2 × 0 × World Cup medals 1 × 0 × 2 ×
winter Olympics silver 1932 Lake Placid Two-man bobsleigh silver 1936 Garmisch-Partenkirchen Four-man bobsleigh  Bobsleigh and Skeleton World Championships gold 1935 Igls Two-man bobsleigh bronze 1935 Igls Four-man bobsleigh bronze 1937 Cortina d'Ampezzo Two-man bobsleigh

Reto Capadrutt (born March 4, 1912 in Chur ; † February 3, 1939 in St. Moritz ) was a Swiss bobsleigh driver .

Capadrutt first took part in the 1932 Olympic Games in Lake Placid and won the silver medal in the two-man bobsleigh. He then won the gold medal at the World Championships in the two-man bobsleigh in 1935 and the bronze medal in the four-man bobsleigh, also in 1935. The following year, he took part in the 1936 Olympic Games in Garmisch-Partenkirchen and won the silver medal in the four-man bobsleigh. At the World Championships the following year, he won another bronze medal in the two-man bobsleigh.

At the Bobsleigh World Championships in 1939 , whose two-man bobsleigh competitions were held in St. Moritz , he had a fatal accident with his bobsleigh after it went off the track.

Web link

• Reto Capadrutt in the Sports-Reference database (English; archived from the original )