Bobsleigh at the 1956 Winter Olympics – Four-man

Bobsleigh at the 1956 Winter Olympics
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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	Germany (GER) 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	Germany (GER) 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.