Bobsleigh at the 1956 Winter Olympics – Four-man
| Bobsleigh at the 1956 Winter Olympics | |
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| Two | men |
| Four | men |
The four-man bobsleigh results at the 1956 Winter Olympics in Cortina d'Ampezzo, Italy. The competition was held on Friday, February 3, 1956, and on Saturday, February 4, 1956.
Medallists
| Gold | Silver | Bronze |
|---|---|---|
 Switzerland (SUI)Switzerland I Franz Kapus Gottfried Diener Robert Alt Heinrich Angst |
 Italy (ITA)Italy II Eugenio Monti Ulrico Girardi Renzo Alverà Renato Mocellini |
 United States (USA)USA I Arthur Tyler William Dodge Charles Butler James Lamy |
Results
| Rank | Team | Athletes | Run 1 | Run 2 | Run 3 | Run 4 | Final |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Gold | Switzerland (SUI) Switzerland I
|
Franz Kapus, Gottfried Diener, Robert Alt, & Heinrich Angst | 1:18.00 | 1:17.19 | 1:17.09 | 1:18.16 | 5:10.44 |
| Silver | Italy (ITA) Italy II
|
Eugenio Monti, Ulrico Girardi, Renzo Alverà, & Renato Mocellini | 1:17.69 | 1:17.97 | 1:18.13 | 1:18.31 | 5:12.10 |
| Bronze | United States (USA) USA I
|
Arthur Tyler, William Dodge, Charles Butler, & James Lamy | 1:17.75 | 1:17.87 | 1:18.25 | 1:18.52 | 5:12.39 |
| 4 | Switzerland (SUI) Switzerland II
|
Max Angst, Aby Gartmann, Harry Warburton, & Rolf Gerber | 1:17.41 | 1:17.85 | 1:18.68 | 1:20.33 | 5:14.27 |
| 5 | Italy (ITA) Italy I
|
Dino De Martin, Giovanni De Martin, Giovanni Tabacchi, & Carlo Da Prà | 1:18.10 | 1:18.65 | 1:18.50 | 1:19.41 | 5:14.66 |
| 6 |  United Team of Germany (EUA) Germany I
|
Hans Rösch, Michael Pössinger, Lorenz Nieberl, & Sylvester Wackerle | 1:18.61 | 1:19.04 | 1:19.43 | 1:20.94 | 5:18.02 |
| 7 |  Austria (AUT) Austria II
|
Kurt Loserth, Wilfried Thurner, Karl Schwarzböck, & Franz Dominik | 1:19.37 | 1:19.12 | 1:20.08 | 1:19.72 | 5:18.29 |
| 8 | United Team of Germany (EUA) Germany II
|
Franz Schelle, Jakob Nirschl, Hans Henn, & Edmund Koller | 1:19.03 | 1:18.84 | 1:19.31 | 1:21.35 | 5:18.50 |
| 9 |  Spain (ESP) Spain I
|
Alfonso de Portago, Vicente Sartorius y Cabeza de Vaca, Gonzalo Taboada, & Luis Muñoz | 1:18.87 | 1:19.27 | 1:21.37 | 1:19.08 | 5:19.49 |
| 10 | Austria (AUT) Austria I
|
Karl Wagner, Fritz Rursch, Adolf Tonn, & Heinrich Isser | 1:19.60 | 1:20.74 | 1:19.98 | 1:20.30 | 5:20.62 |
| 11 |  Norway (NOR) Norway I
|
Arne Røgden, Arnold Dyrdahl, Odd Solli, & Trygve Brudevold | 1:20.96 | 1:20.08 | 1:20.45 | 1:20.01 | 5:21.50 |
| 12 |  Great Britain (GBR) Great Britain I
|
Keith Schellenberg, Rollo Brandt, Ralph Raffles, & John Rainforth | 1:21.39 | 1:18.73 | 1:20.42 | 1:21.58 | 5:22.12 |
| 13 |  Sweden (SWE) Sweden II
|
Kjell Holmström, Sven Erbs, Walter Aronson, & Jan Lapidoth | 1:20.58 | 1:20.32 | 1:21.15 | 1:21.13 | 5:23.18 |
| 14 |  Romania (ROU) Romania I
|
Heinrich Enea, Dumitru Peteu, Nicolae Moiceanu, & Mărgărit Blăgescu | 1:21.53 | 1:20.58 | 1:20.64 | 1:20.44 | 5:23.19 |
| 15 |  Poland (POL) Poland I
|
Stefan Ciapała, Jerzy Olesiak, Józef Szymański, & Aleksander Habala | 1:19.95 | 1:20.25 | 1:21.10 | 1:22.19 | 5:23.49 |
| 16 | Sweden (SWE) Sweden I
|
Olle Axelsson, Ebbe Wallén, Sune Skagerling, & Gunnar Åhs | 1:18.95 | 1:19.98 | 1:22.75 | 1:21.86 | 5:23.54 |
| 17 | Great Britain (GBR) Great Britain II
|
Stuart Parkinson, John Read, Christopher Williams, & Rodney Mann | 1:20.72 | 1:19.92 | 1:22.51 | 1:20.58 | 5:23.73 |
| 18 |  France (FRA) France I
|
André Robin, Pierre Bouvier, Jacques Panciroli, & Lucien Grosso | 1:20.00 | 1:21.25 | 1:20.95 | 1:21.63 | 5:23.83 |
| 19 | United States (USA) USA II
|
James Bickford, Donald Jacques, Lawrence McKillip, & Hubert Miller | 1:20.97 | 1:22.47 | 1:21.22 | 1:20.50 | 5:25.16 |
| 20 | Romania (ROU) Romania II
|
Constantin Dragomir, Vasile Panait, Ion Staicu, & Gheorghe Moldoveanu | 1:21.21 | 1:21.22 | 1:22.37 | 1:23.03 | 5:27.83 |
| 21 | Poland (POL) Poland II
|
Aleksy Konieczny, Zygmunt Konieczny, Włodzimierz Źróbik, & Zbigniew Skowroński/Jan Dąbrowski(*) | 5:28.40 |
(*) NOTE: Jan Dąbrowski replaced Zbigniew Skowroński after two runs.
References
- 1956 bobsleigh four-man results
- Wallechinsky, David (1984). "Bobsleigh: Four-Man". In The Complete Book of the Winter Olympics. New York: Penguin Books. p. 561.
