Walter Delle Karth
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Walter Delle Karth Jr. (Alternate listings: Walter delleKarth, Walter Delle-Karth; born August 11, 1946 in Innsbruck, Tyrol) is an Austrian bobsledder who competed from the early 1970s to the mid-1980s. He won two medals in the four-man event at the FIBT World Championships with a silver in 1973 and a bronze in 1974.
Competing in three Winter Olympics Delle Karth earned his best finish of fifth in the four-man event at Lake Placid in 1980.
In the 1985-86 Bobsleigh World Cup he finished second in the four-man championship.
He has two brothers, Werner and Dieter.
In later years Delle Karth worked as the agent of multiple Olympic, World and World Cup champion alpine skier Hermann Maier.[1]
References
- 1984 bobsleigh two-man results
- Bobsleigh four-man world championship medalists since 1930
- List of four-man bobsleigh World Cup champions since 1985
- Outside magazine.com article on the US ski team at the 2006 Winter Olympics, including Delle Karth
- Wallenchinsky, David (1984). "Bobsled: Four-man". In The Complete Book of the Olympics: 1896 - 1980. New York: Penguin Books. pp. 561–2.
- sports-reference
- ↑ "Not always who they seem". Star-News (Wilmington, North Carolina). 11 February 2006. Retrieved 29 January 2014.
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