Gianfranco Gaspari

Gianfranco Gaspari
Medal record

Bobsleigh
World Championships
	1971 Cervinia	Two-man
	1966 Cortina d'Ampezzo	Two-man
	1969 Lake Placid	Four-man
	1969 Lake Placid	Two-man

Gianfranco Gaspari (born August 5, 1938) is an Italian bobsledder who competed from the late 1960s to the early 1970s. He won four medals at the FIBT World Championships with one gold (Two-man: 1971), two silvers (Two-man: 1966, Four-man: 1969), and one bronze (Two-man: 1969).

Gaspari finished 21 seconds behind fellow Italian bobsledder Eugenio Monti in the two-man event at the 1966 FIBT World Championships in Cortina d'Ampezzo.

Competing in two Winter Olympics, his best finish was fourth in the two-man event at Sapporo in 1972.

References

Bobsleigh two-man world championship medalists since 1931
Bobsleigh four-man world championship medalists since 1930
TIME magazine March 11, 1966 article featuring Gasapri's finish behind Monti - Accessed August 29, 2007.
Wallenchinsky, David (1984). "Bobsled". In The Complete Book of the Olympics: 1896 - 1980. New York: Penguin Books. pp. 559, 561.

World champions in two-man bobsleigh

1931: Germany (Hanns Kilian, Sebastian Huber)
1933: Romania (Alexandru Papană, Dumitru Hubert)
1934: Romania (Alexandru Frim, Vasile Dumitrescu)
1935: Switzerland (Reto Capadrutt, Emil Diener)
1937: Great Britain (Frederick McEvoy, Byran Black)
1938: Germany (Bibo Fischer, Rolf Thielecke)
1939: Belgium (René Lunden, Jeans Coops)
1947: Switzerland (Fritz Feierabend, Stephan Waser)
1949: Switzerland (Felix Endrich, Friedrich Waller)
1950: Switzerland (Fritz Feierabend, Stephan Waser)
1951: West Germany (Andreas Ostler, Lorenz Nieberl)
1953: Switzerland (Felix Endrich, Fritz Stöckli)
1954: Italy (Guglielmo Scheibmeier, Andrea Zambelli)
1955: Switzerland (Fritz Feierabend, Harry Warburton)
1957: Italy (Eugenio Monti, Renzo Alverà)
1958: Italy (Eugenio Monti, Renzo Alverà)
1959: Italy (Eugenio Monti, Renzo Alverà)
1960: Italy (Eugenio Monti, Renzo Alverà)
1961: Italy (Eugenio Monti, Sergio Siorpaes)
1962: Italy (Rinaldo Ruatti, Enrico de Lorenzo)
1963: Italy (Eugenio Monti, Sergio Siorpaes)
1965: Great Britain (Anthony Nash, Robin Dixon)
1966: Italy (Eugenio Monti, Sergio Siorpaes)
1967: Austria (Erwin Thaler, Reinhold Durnthaler)
1969: Italy (Nevio de Zordo, Adriano Frassinelli)
1970: West Germany (Horst Floth, Pepi Bader)
1971: Italy (Gianfranco Gaspari, Mario Armano)
1973: West Germany (Wolfgang Zimmerer, Peter Utzschneider)
1974: West Germany (Wolfgang Zimmerer, Peter Utzschneider)
1975: Italy (Giorgio Alvera, Franco Perruquet)
1977: Switzerland (Hans Hiltebrand, Heinz Meier)
1978: Switzerland (Erich Schärer, Joseph Benz)
1979: Switzerland (Erich Schärer, Joseph Benz)
1981: East Germany (Bernhard Germeshausen, Hans-Jürgen Gerhardt)
1982: Switzerland (Erich Schärer, Max Rüegg)
1983: Switzerland (Ralph Pichler, Urs Leuthold)
1985: East Germany (Wolfgang Hoppe, Dietmar Schauerhammer)
1986: East Germany (Wolfgang Hoppe, Dietmar Schauerhammer)
1987: Switzerland (Ralph Pichler, Celeste Poltera)
1989: East Germany (Wolfgang Hoppe, Bogdan Musioł)
1990: Switzerland (Gustav Weder, Bruno Gerber)
1991: Germany (Rudolf Lochner, Markus Zimmermann)
1993: Germany (Christoph Langen, Peer Joechel)
1995: Germany (Christoph Langen, Olaf Hampel)
1996: Germany (Christoph Langen, Markus Zimmermann)
1997: Switzerland (Reto Götschi, Guido Acklin)
1999: Italy (Günther Huber, Enrico Costa, Ubaldo Ranzi)
2000: Germany (Christoph Langen, Markus Zimmermann)
2001: Germany (Christoph Langen, Marco Jakobs)
2003: Germany (André Lange, Kevin Kuske)
2004: Canada (Pierre Lueders, Giulio Zardo)
2005: Canada (Pierre Lueders, Lascelles Brown)
2007: Germany (André Lange, Kevin Kuske)
2008: Germany (André Lange, Kevin Kuske)
2009: Switzerland (Ivo Rüegg, Cédric Grand)
2011: Russia (Alexandr Zubkov, Alexey Voyevoda)
2012: United States (Steven Holcomb, Steven Langton)
2013: Germany (Francesco Friedrich, Jannis Bäcker)
2015: Germany (Francesco Friedrich, Thorsten Margis)
2016: Germany (Francesco Friedrich, Thorsten Margis)

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