Rico Freiermuth

Rico Freiermuth
nation	Switzerland
birthday	January 1, 1958
place of birth	Liestal , Basel-Country
size	179 cm
Weight	94 kg
Career
position	Pusher
society	Leysin bobsleigh club
status	resigned
Medal table
Olympic medals 0 × 0 × 1 × World Cup medals 1 × 0 × 1 × EM medals 2 × 0 × 1 ×
winter Olympics bronze 1984 Sarajevo four  Bobsleigh and Skeleton World Championships gold 1982 St. Moritz four bronze 1985 Cervinia four  European bobsleigh championships bronze 1983 Sarajevo four gold 1984 Igls four gold 1985 St. Moritz four

Rico Freiermuth (born January 1, 1958 in Liestal , Basel-Landschaft ) is a former Swiss bobsledder .

Freiermuth first appeared in bobsleigh when he won the gold medal in the four-man bobsleigh at the World Championships in St. Moritz in 1982 , together with Silvio Giobellina , Urs Salzmann and Heinz Stettler . The following year they finished third at the European Championships in Sarajevo , and in 1984 they also achieved bronze behind the two teams from the GDR on the same bobsled run at the Winter Olympics . In the two-man bobsleigh, he took sixth place with Ralph Pichler . Freiermuth became European champion in Igls in the four-man bobsleigh in January of that year . He competed in his last major events in 1985. At the European Championships in St. Moritz, he was again champion in the four-man bobsleigh. Freiermuth ended his active career after winning the bronze medal in the foursome at the World Championships in Cervinia . Furthermore, from 1981 to 1985 he was Swiss champion in the four-man bobsleigh five times in a row.

Web links

• Rico Freiermuth in the database of Sports-Reference (English; archived from the original )