Bobsleigh at the 1936 Winter Olympics

Bobsleigh
at the IV Olympic Winter Games
Bobsleigh; at the IV Olympic Winter Games
Venue	Garmisch-Partenkirchen, Germany
Dates	6-16 February
Competitors	115 from 14 nations

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

Event	Gold	Silver	Bronze
Two-man	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	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

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:

Medal table


Rank	Nation	Gold	Silver	Bronze	Total
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

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

External links

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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