Bobsleigh at the 1956 Winter Olympics – Four-man

Bobsleigh at the
1956 Winter Olympics
Two-man men
Four-man 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  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

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