Sergio Siorpaes

Sergio Siorpaes (born July 20, 1934 in Cortina d'Ampezzo ) is a former Italian bobsleigh driver and world champion.

Career

Siorpaes won his first international medal as a pusher from Sergio Zardini , with whom he won silver at the 1958 World Championships in the two-man bobsleigh behind the other Italian bobsleigh with Eugenio Monti and Renzo Alverà . Siorpaes then switched to Monti's team himself. In 1960, together with Monti, Furio Nordio and Alvera, he won gold in the four-man bobsleigh at the world championship in his hometown of Cortina d'Ampezzo. This world championship was a substitute for the fact that the bobsleigh competitions at the 1960 Olympic Games in Squaw Valley were not on the Olympic program once. The following year the World Championships took place in Lake Placid , the other US Olympic venue. Siorpaes won the title in both the two-man and four-man bobsleigh in the Monti bobsleigh. After Monti and Siorpaes did not take part in the world championship in 1962, they won the two-man bobsleigh in Igls in 1963. The bobsleigh competitions at the 1964 Olympic Games also took place on the track in Igls . There Siorpaes won the bronze medal together with Monti in both disciplines, and Gildo Siorpaes , Sergio's younger brother , also sat in the four-man bobsleigh . In 1966 the bobsleigh world championship took place again in Cortina d'Ampezzo. Monti and Siorpaes won the title in the two-man bobsleigh. This was the fifth and final world title for Sergio Siorpaes.

Sergio Siorpaes was a trained blacksmith . He invented the movable front rail in the bobsleigh and is one of the most important sled makers in the history of this sport.

literature

• Bodo Harenberg (ed.): The stars of the sport from A-Z . Darmstadt 1970
• Volker Kluge : Olympic Winter Games, the chronicle . Berlin 1994 ISBN 3-328-00631-1

Web links

• Sergio Siorpaes in the database of Sports-Reference (English; archived from the original )
• World Bobsleigh Championships

Individual evidence

1. ↑ Volker Kluge, page 217, note 76