World in Wolfinger

World in Wolfinger
Full name	World in Franz Anton Wolfinger
nation	Liechtenstein
birthday	May 12, 1926
place of birth	Montreux ,  Switzerland
date of death	July 15, 2010
Place of death	Geneva ,  Switzerland
Career
discipline	two
position	Pusher
End of career	1956

Weltin Franz Anton Wolfinger (born May 12, 1926 in Montreux , Switzerland ; † July 15, 2010 in Geneva , Switzerland) was a Liechtenstein bobsledder .

Career

Weltin Wolfinger took part in the 1956 Winter Olympics in Cortina d'Ampezzo . In the two-man bobsleigh , he starts pushing Moritz Heidegger . However, the duo was in last place after the second of four races and therefore did not start again.

Two weeks later, the two athletes started on the Olympia Bobrun St. Moritz – Celerina . During the race the bob skidded and the track collapsed, as a result of which the bob overturned several times. Despite his helmet, Heidegger was hit hard by the bump bars on the back of the head. Wolfinger, however, only suffered minor injuries. The President of the Liechtenstein Association, Eduard Theodor von Falz-Fein , immediately drove Heidegger to the hospital in Samedan . However, Heidegger did not regain consciousness and died a few days later. Because of this, bobsleigh was temporarily banned in Liechtenstein.

Wolfinger switched to luge and took part in the 1962 Luge World Championships in Krynica-Zdrój , Poland , where he finished 75th in the single-seater.

Web links

• Weltin Wolfinger in the Sports-Reference database (English; archived from the original )

Individual evidence

1. ^ Herbert Oehri: The Wolfinger tragedy from Triesen. April 22, 2013, accessed October 24, 2019 .