Bobsleigh at the 1936 Winter Olympics

Bobsleigh

at the IV Olympic Winter Games

Venue| Garmisch-Partenkirchen, Germany
Dates| 6-16 February 1936
Competitors| 115 from 14 nations

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Bobsleigh at the
1936 Winter Olympics

Two| men
Four| men

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At the 1936 Winter Olympics, two bobsleigh events were contested. The competitions were held from February 11, 1936, to February 15, 1936.[1]

## Medal summary

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Event  | Gold  | Silver  | Bronze

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Two-man
details |  United States (USA)
USA I
Ivan Brown
Alan Washbond |  Switzerland (SUI)
Switzerland II
Fritz Feierabend
Joseph Beerli |  United States (USA)
USA II
Gilbert Colgate
Richard Lawrence
Four-man
details |  Switzerland (SUI)
Switzerland II
Pierre Musy
Arnold Gartmann
Charles Bouvier
Joseph Beerli |  Switzerland (SUI)
Switzerland I
Reto Capadrutt
Hans Aichele
Fritz Feierabend
Hans Bütikofer |  Great Britain (GBR)
Great Britain I
Frederick McEvoy
James Cardno
Guy Dugdale
Charles Green

## Participating nations

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Liechtenstein, Luxembourg, and the Netherlands only competed in the two-man event. Twenty-three bobsledders competed in both events.

A total of 95 bobsledders from 13 nations competed at the Garmisch-Partenkirchen Games:

* Austria (12)
* Belgium (8)
* Czechoslovakia (8)
* France (10)
* Germany (10)
* Great Britain (4)
* Italy (10)
* Liechtenstein (2)
* Luxembourg (4)
* Netherlands (2)
* Romania (9)
* Switzerland (9)
* United States (11)

## Medal table

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Rank| Nation| Gold| Silver| Bronze| Total

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1|  Switzerland| 1| 2| 0| 3
2|  United States| 1| 0| 1| 2
3|  Great Britain| 0| 0| 1| 1
Totals (3 entries)| 2| 2| 2| 6

## References

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1. ^ "Bobsleigh at the 1936 Garmisch-Partenkirchen Winter Games". Sports Reference. Archived from the original on 17 April 2020. Retrieved 6 April 2018.

## External links

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* 1936 bobsleigh two-man results
* 1936 bobsleigh four-man results
* 1936 Olympic Winter Games official report.(in German) \- pp. 408–19.

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Events at the 1936 Winter Olympics (Garmisch-Partenkirchen)

* Alpine skiing
* Bobsleigh
* Cross‑country skiing
* Figure skating
* Ice hockey
* Ice stock sport (demonstration)
* Military patrol (demonstration)
* Nordic combined
* Ski jumping
* Speed skating

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