Silvio Giobellina

Silvio Giobellina
nation	Switzerland
birthday	February 28, 1954
place of birth	Leysin , Vaud
size	172 cm
Weight	73 kg
Career
position	pilot
society	Leysin bobsleigh club
status	resigned
Medal table
Olympic medals 0 × 0 × 1 × World Cup medals 1 × 0 × 1 × EM medals 2 × 0 × 2 ×
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 bronze 1988 Sarajevo four

Silvio Giobellina (born February 28, 1954 in Leysin , Vaud ) is a former Swiss bobsleigh athlete .

Life

Before Giobellina devoted himself completely to bobsleigh in 1974, he was also active in cycling , swimming and skiing. Internationally, he made his first Swiss bobsleigh debut in 1978 when he won the bronze medal in the four-man bobsleigh at the European Junior Championships. In the senior category he received his first gold medal in 1982 with Rico Freiermuth , Urs Salzmann and Heinz Stettler at the Bobsleigh World Championships in St. Moritz . In the following years he won bronze ( 1983 , 1988 ) and gold ( 1984 , 1985 ) twice at the European four-man bobsleigh championships. Furthermore, Giobellina joined Freiermuth, Salzmann and Stettler at the 1984 Winter Olympics in Sarajevo , where they came third behind the two bobsleigh teams from the GDR . Between 1981 and 1985 he was national champion in the four-man bobsleigh five times in a row.

After the European Championships in 1988 Giobellina resigned from bobsleigh. He then worked as technical manager in the French bobsleigh team until 1994. In 1999 he became the manager of a toboggan park in his hometown of Leysin.

Web links

• Silvio Giobellina in the Sports-Reference database (English; archived from the original )