{"id":1774,"date":"2022-12-07T11:23:41","date_gmt":"2022-12-07T10:23:41","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/cresta-bob-museum-stmoritz.ch\/bob\/"},"modified":"2024-12-06T11:58:13","modified_gmt":"2024-12-06T10:58:13","slug":"bob","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/cresta-bob-museum-stmoritz.ch\/en\/bob\/","title":{"rendered":"bob"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<style type=\"text\/css\" data-created_by=\"avia_inline_auto\" id=\"style-css-av-72wuk-6237e637a13758dc56d31fe7a18dd462\">\n.avia-section.av-72wuk-6237e637a13758dc56d31fe7a18dd462{\nbackground-repeat:no-repeat;\nbackground-image:url(https:\/\/cresta-bob-museum-stmoritz.ch\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2022\/10\/stmoritz_cresta_bob_museum_startbild_hintergrund.jpg);\nbackground-position:50% 50%;\nbackground-attachment:scroll;\n}\n<\/style>\n<div id='av_section_1'  class='avia-section av-72wuk-6237e637a13758dc56d31fe7a18dd462 main_color avia-section-default avia-no-border-styling  avia-builder-el-0  el_before_av_section  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RUN<\/h1>\n<\/div><\/section><\/div><div  class='flex_column av-1jcnho-d3bf22e79202ba2e603bdb29d466d94c av_one_full  avia-builder-el-3  el_after_av_one_full  avia-builder-el-last  startbild_vordergrund startbild_vordergrund_bob first flex_column_div  column-top-margin'     ><style type=\"text\/css\" data-created_by=\"avia_inline_auto\" id=\"style-css-av-1fx0vg-452561a2ea1390a8ef5f52cccc1351ae\">\n.avia-image-container.av-1fx0vg-452561a2ea1390a8ef5f52cccc1351ae img.avia_image{\nbox-shadow:none;\n}\n.avia-image-container.av-1fx0vg-452561a2ea1390a8ef5f52cccc1351ae .av-image-caption-overlay-center{\ncolor:#ffffff;\n}\n<\/style>\n<div  class='avia-image-container av-1fx0vg-452561a2ea1390a8ef5f52cccc1351ae av-styling- avia-align-center  avia-builder-el-4  avia-builder-el-no-sibling '   itemprop=\"image\" itemscope=\"itemscope\" itemtype=\"https:\/\/schema.org\/ImageObject\" ><div class=\"avia-image-container-inner\"><div class=\"avia-image-overlay-wrap\"><img decoding=\"async\" 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av-17k1zw-cc949693d25c11a4f2b8552ffef3a1d5 main_color avia-section-huge avia-no-border-styling  avia-builder-el-5  el_after_av_section  el_before_av_section  avia-bg-style-scroll container_wrap fullsize'  ><div class='container av-section-cont-open' ><div class='template-page content  av-content-full alpha units'><div class='post-entry post-entry-type-page post-entry-1774'><div class='entry-content-wrapper clearfix'>\n<div  class='flex_column av-14u7mc-72f2df233604e717c5a47a04e379af38 av_one_half  avia-builder-el-6  el_before_av_one_half  avia-builder-el-first  first flex_column_div av-animated-generic bottom-to-top  '     ><section  class='av_textblock_section av-lbdhz28d-3853e1f2d9499e08a7a80304845c2f81 '   itemscope=\"itemscope\" itemtype=\"https:\/\/schema.org\/CreativeWork\" ><div class='avia_textblock'  itemprop=\"text\" ><h3 style=\"text-align: center;\">LEGEND MADE OF ICE<\/h3>\n<\/div><\/section><br \/>\n<section  class='av_textblock_section av-lbdhzgyd-04a6cf9d4b5f9b880fdf1974a5d87e72 '   itemscope=\"itemscope\" itemtype=\"https:\/\/schema.org\/CreativeWork\" ><div class='avia_textblock'  itemprop=\"text\" ><p>At the Top: the narrow sun terrace of St Moritz, with the Kulm Hotel, Golf Course and the Olympic Stadium. At the bottom: Celerina and the wide valley floor of the Engadine. In between: a pine forest where strange things happen. When it gets cold, people rush through this forest towards Celerina \u2013 on a track hardly visible in summer, but which in winter forms the largest ice sculpture in the world.<\/p>\n<p>The Olympic Bob Run is a legend that is cast in ice every winter \u2013 15,000 cubic metres of snow and 7,000 cubic metres of water are needed to build the 1,772 metre long track with its 19 bends. Since 1904, bobsleighs, and later also skeletons, luge and other racers, have raced along the glistening white ice track which although it is constructed anew every year, hardly changes from year to year.<\/p>\n<\/div><\/section><br \/>\n\n<style type=\"text\/css\" data-created_by=\"avia_inline_auto\" id=\"style-css-av-lbdtlkw1-5d8c98249818567bd9a1a4151179c5b2\">\n#top .hr.hr-invisible.av-lbdtlkw1-5d8c98249818567bd9a1a4151179c5b2{\nheight:50px;\n}\n<\/style>\n<div  class='hr av-lbdtlkw1-5d8c98249818567bd9a1a4151179c5b2 hr-invisible  avia-builder-el-9  el_after_av_textblock  el_before_av_textblock '><span class='hr-inner '><span class=\"hr-inner-style\"><\/span><\/span><\/div><br \/>\n<section  class='av_textblock_section av-lbdi77tm-ff88e78c30180e10c3bcf92e73960ae1 '   itemscope=\"itemscope\" itemtype=\"https:\/\/schema.org\/CreativeWork\" ><div class='avia_textblock'  itemprop=\"text\" ><h3 style=\"text-align: center;\">FACTS &#038; FIGURES<\/h3>\n<\/div><\/section><br \/>\n<section  class='av_textblock_section av-lbdi89xi-b69bd89a93cbf609ac08d783ee2b00bf '   itemscope=\"itemscope\" itemtype=\"https:\/\/schema.org\/CreativeWork\" ><div class='avia_textblock'  itemprop=\"text\" ><p style=\"text-align: center;\">Start Altitude \u2014 1\u200a852 m a.s.l.<br \/>\nFinish Altitude \u2014 1\u200a738 m a.s.l.<br \/>\nLowest Point \u2014 1\u200a722 m a.s.l.<br \/>\nHeight Difference \u2014 130\u2009metres<br \/>\nTrack length \u2014 1\u200a722\u2009metres<br \/>\nAverage Gradient \u2014 8,1\u2009%<br \/>\nHighest Speed \u2014 150\u2009km\/h<\/p>\n<\/div><\/section><\/p><\/div><div  class='flex_column av-zhz3g-e8a82179fdd1b88bc310135acc0348bc av_one_half  avia-builder-el-12  el_after_av_one_half  avia-builder-el-last  flex_column_div av-animated-generic bottom-to-top  '     ><\/div>\n\n<\/div><\/div><\/div><!-- close content main div --><\/div><\/div><div id='bobrun_corner'  class='avia-section av-lezig2ln-4daf2a1f4e9de4dc0c484fbd896d2bd2 alternate_color avia-section-huge 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data-av_iconfont='entypo-fontello'  tabindex='-1'>Previous<\/a><a href='#next' class='next-slide ' aria-hidden='true' data-av_icon='\ue87d' data-av_iconfont='entypo-fontello'  tabindex='-1'>Next<\/a><\/div><\/div><div class=\"avia-content-slider-inner\"><div class=\"slide-entry-wrap\"><section class='slide-entry av-lezhw9tc-83b75ae7395c730a0a531d836ada092a flex_column av_fullwidth post-entry slide-entry-overview slide-loop-1 slide-parity-odd  first'  itemscope=\"itemscope\" itemtype=\"https:\/\/schema.org\/CreativeWork\" ><h3 class='slide-entry-title entry-title '  itemprop=\"headline\" >START<\/h3><div class='slide-entry-excerpt entry-content'  itemprop=\"text\" ><div class=\"main_image\">\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-258\" src=\"\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2023\/03\/cresta_bob_museum_bobrun_start.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"212\" \/><\/p>\n<h3>START<\/h3>\n<\/div>\n<div>\n<div class=\"iconbox_custom\">\n<div>\n<div class=\"basicflex\">\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"\/wp-content\/themes\/enfold-child\/img\/icon_info.svg\" alt=\"Name\" \/><\/p>\n<div><strong>Start Olympia Bob Run<\/strong><br \/>\nStart Altitude: 1852m a.s.l.<br \/>\nStart House \u2013 Dracula\u2019s Ghost Riders Club, opened in 1973<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"basicflex\">\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"\/wp-content\/themes\/enfold-child\/img\/icon_streckenprofil.svg\" alt=\"Streckenprofil\" \/><\/p>\n<div>\n<p><strong>Track Profile<\/strong><br \/>\nLength: 1722m<br \/>\nHeight Difference: 130m<br \/>\nNumber of curves: 19<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"basicflex\">\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"\/wp-content\/themes\/enfold-child\/img\/icon_bedeutung.svg\" alt=\"Bedeutung\" \/><\/p>\n<div>\n<p><strong>Significance<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Oldest Bobsleigh track in the world still in use (1904)<br \/>\nOnly natural ice run in the world (ie, without refrigeration)<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<h3>Der first Push<\/h3>\n<p>\u201cOne, two, three\u2026.. go, go, go!\u201d Push hard and fast for 15 metres to the starting line, because then the clock is running. Jump in within another 50 metres \u2013 and hope. Because anyone who loses a few hundredths, or even just a thousandth of a second at the start and in the run-up zone, will almost certainly lose more time over the 1772 m course of the Olympic Bob Run St.\u202fMoritz-Celerina.<\/p>\n<p>Anyone who starts here in the two or four man bobsleigh knows: this track is living history! It is the oldest bobsleigh run in the world (1904), and at the same time, the only bobsleigh run in the world built from natural ice! Follow this unique route to the finish in Celerina bearing in mind the significance of these two facts &#8211; and experience the rush of speed and the fascination of the sport and its history!<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div><\/section><\/div><div class=\"slide-entry-wrap\"><section class='slide-entry av-lezhw9tc-4-aa497463f132eb516cf94398c0691198 flex_column av_fullwidth post-entry slide-entry-overview slide-loop-2 slide-parity-odd  first'  itemscope=\"itemscope\" itemtype=\"https:\/\/schema.org\/CreativeWork\" ><h3 class='slide-entry-title entry-title '  itemprop=\"headline\" >WALL CORNER<\/h3><div class='slide-entry-excerpt entry-content'  itemprop=\"text\" ><div class=\"main_image\">\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-258\" src=\"\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2023\/03\/cresta_bob_museum_bobrun_wallcorner.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"212\" \/><\/p>\n<h3>WALL<br \/>\nCORNER<\/h3>\n<\/div>\n<div>\n<div class=\"iconbox_custom\">\n<div>\n<div class=\"basicflex\">\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"\/wp-content\/themes\/enfold-child\/img\/icon_info.svg\" alt=\"Name\" \/><\/p>\n<div><strong>Name<\/strong><br \/>\nWall, so named as it is the boundary of the slope<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"basicflex\">\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"\/wp-content\/themes\/enfold-child\/img\/icon_streckenprofil.svg\" alt=\"Position\" \/><\/p>\n<div>\n<p><strong>Position<\/strong><br \/>\n230m after the Start<br \/>\n18m lower than the starting altitude<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"basicflex\">\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"\/wp-content\/themes\/enfold-child\/img\/icon_bedeutung.svg\" alt=\"Bedeutung\" \/><\/p>\n<div>\n<p><strong>Significance<\/strong><br \/>\nThe first major corner<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<h3>The first corner<\/h3>\n<p>Please don\u2019t touch it! The bobsleigh has been set in motion at the Start of the Olympic Bob Run with brute physical strength. Now, a sensitive hand is required: anyone touching the icy walls of the Olympic Bob run will lose time. The pilot must keep the heavy bobsleigh in the centre of the track on the approach to Wall Corner. Not an easy task: a two man bob with crew can weigh up to 390 kilograms; a four man bob with crew up to 630 kilograms.<\/p>\n<p>Just before Wall Corner, the first major corner of the Olympic Bob Run, you can see if it was a good start. The first intermediate time is measured here \u2013 as the timer has been set at the start and the time has been measured from the 50 m mark. From here, the bobsleighs get faster and faster reaching speeds of up to 150 km\/h. On the Swiss highways, this speed would result in a loss of licence!<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div><\/section><\/div><div class=\"slide-entry-wrap\"><section class='slide-entry av-lezhw9tc-3-e859c8ffe7218d83a7946e621b46afba flex_column av_fullwidth post-entry slide-entry-overview slide-loop-3 slide-parity-odd  first'  itemscope=\"itemscope\" itemtype=\"https:\/\/schema.org\/CreativeWork\" ><h3 class='slide-entry-title entry-title '  itemprop=\"headline\" >SUNNY CORNER<\/h3><div class='slide-entry-excerpt entry-content'  itemprop=\"text\" ><div class=\"main_image\">\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-258\" src=\"\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2023\/03\/cresta_bob_museum_bobrun_sunnycorner.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"212\" \/><\/p>\n<h3>SUNNY<br \/>\nCORNER<\/h3>\n<\/div>\n<div>\n<div class=\"iconbox_custom\">\n<div>\n<div class=\"basicflex\">\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"\/wp-content\/themes\/enfold-child\/img\/icon_info.svg\" alt=\"Name\" \/><\/p>\n<div><strong>Name<\/strong><br \/>\nSunny, so named because of its sunny location.<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"basicflex\">\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"\/wp-content\/themes\/enfold-child\/img\/icon_streckenprofil.svg\" alt=\"Position\" \/><\/p>\n<div>\n<p><strong>Buildings<\/strong><br \/>\n\u201cSunny Haus\u201c, built in 1929, previously a meeting place, now a track worker\u2019s building<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"basicflex\">\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"\/wp-content\/themes\/enfold-child\/img\/icon_bedeutung.svg\" alt=\"Bedeutung\" \/><\/p>\n<div>\n<p><strong>Significance<\/strong><br \/>\nThe first major attraction after the Start<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<h3>In the best light<\/h3>\n<p>The pressure builds \u2013 after a steep start, the Olympic Bob Run then has a slight gradient, but only until it reaches a snake shaped double curve, the Snake Corner. Then it descends 10 metres over a distance of just 65 metres \u2013 and at the same time enters the semi-circle turn of Sunny Corner. The gravitational pressure, which can increase to up to 5 times the normal gravitational force during the course of the Bob Run, can really be felt here for the first time.<\/p>\n<p>The Difficulty: The challenge is to drive through Sunny Corner using the shortest route at the highest possible speed. It is also important on exit from the turn to find the most direct route into the following short straight before the Nash-Dixon Corner. So the Sunny Corner is a demanding turn \u2013 at the same time, it has the best light. After all, the Sunny Corner is the sunniest section of the track.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div><\/section><\/div><div class=\"slide-entry-wrap\"><section class='slide-entry av-lezhw9tc-2-9c3358af90daf8081c6a31752c8ef6b2 flex_column av_fullwidth post-entry slide-entry-overview slide-loop-4 slide-parity-odd  first'  itemscope=\"itemscope\" itemtype=\"https:\/\/schema.org\/CreativeWork\" ><h3 class='slide-entry-title entry-title '  itemprop=\"headline\" >NASH-DIXON CORNER<\/h3><div class='slide-entry-excerpt entry-content'  itemprop=\"text\" ><div class=\"main_image\">\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-258\" src=\"\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2023\/06\/cresta_bob_museum_bobrun_nash-dixon-corner_II.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"212\" \/><\/p>\n<h3>NASH-DIXON<br \/>\nCORNER<\/h3>\n<\/div>\n<div>\n<div class=\"iconbox_custom\">\n<div>\n<div class=\"basicflex\">\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"\/wp-content\/themes\/enfold-child\/img\/icon_info.svg\" alt=\"Name\" \/><\/p>\n<div><strong>Name<\/strong><br \/>\nNamed in honour of Antony Nash and Robin Dixon<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"basicflex\">\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"\/wp-content\/themes\/enfold-child\/img\/icon_streckenprofil.svg\" alt=\"Position\" \/><\/p>\n<div>\n<p><strong>Position<\/strong><br \/>\n600\u2009m after the Start<br \/>\n47\u2009m lower than the start altitude<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"basicflex\">\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"\/wp-content\/themes\/enfold-child\/img\/icon_bedeutung.svg\" alt=\"Bedeutung\" \/><\/p>\n<div>\n<p><strong>Significance<\/strong><br \/>\nFirst curve after Monti\u2019s Bolt (the Junior\u2019s Start)<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<h3>The curve of the world champions<\/h3>\n<p>They formed one of the most successful bobsleigh teams of the 1960\u2019s \u2013 Antony (Tony) Nash and Robin Dixon. Their two man bobsleigh was to be seen on all the major tracks in the world \u2013 and naturally on the Olympic Bob Run from St Moritz to Celerina. It was here that the two Brits, members of the Saint Moritz Bobsleigh Club, won their first world title in 1965.<\/p>\n<p>So it is clear for every team: the Nash- Dixon Corner should be driven as it would be by world champions. In this way, more speed can be built up on the following straight to the Horse Shoe. The Nash-Dixon Corner is also the first challenge after starting for juniors. They start from Monti\u2019s Bolt and join the legendary race track just before the corner. The Junior\u2019s Start is named after the two-time Olympic Champion Eugenio Monti, who was World Champion in the two-man bobsleigh in St Moritz in 1957 and 1959.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div><\/section><\/div><div class=\"slide-entry-wrap\"><section class='slide-entry av-lezhw9tc-2-1-805afe3d6b5c574d3625a9f4c766580b flex_column av_fullwidth post-entry slide-entry-overview slide-loop-5 slide-parity-odd  first'  itemscope=\"itemscope\" itemtype=\"https:\/\/schema.org\/CreativeWork\" ><h3 class='slide-entry-title entry-title '  itemprop=\"headline\" >HORSE SHOE<\/h3><div class='slide-entry-excerpt entry-content'  itemprop=\"text\" ><div class=\"main_image\">\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-258\" src=\"\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2023\/06\/cresta_bob_museum_bobrun_horse-shoe.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"212\" \/><\/p>\n<h3>HORSE SHOE<\/h3>\n<\/div>\n<div>\n<div class=\"iconbox_custom\">\n<div>\n<div class=\"basicflex\">\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"\/wp-content\/themes\/enfold-child\/img\/icon_info.svg\" alt=\"Name\" \/><\/p>\n<div><strong>Name<\/strong><br \/>\nThe shape of the curve is similar to a horse shoe.<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"basicflex\">\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"\/wp-content\/themes\/enfold-child\/img\/icon_streckenprofil.svg\" alt=\"Streckenprofil\" \/><\/p>\n<div>\n<p><strong>Position<\/strong><br \/>\n821 m after the Start<br \/>\n62 m lower than the start altitude<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"basicflex\">\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"\/wp-content\/themes\/enfold-child\/img\/icon_bedeutung.svg\" alt=\"Bedeutung\" \/><\/p>\n<div>\n<p><strong>Significance<\/strong><br \/>\nA spectacular curve that almost has the shape of a sem-circle<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<h3>A horseshoe in the snow<\/h3>\n<p>Everything is getting faster and faster. This impression is not deceptive \u2013 at least not in the case of the Olympic Bob Run. This is clearly shown by the race times \u2013 and is visible in the Horse Shoe. The legendary curve is higher today, and is wider than in the past. The reason: The speed and cornering pressure have increased, as has the danger of a \u201cdeparture\u201d over the edge of the curve.<\/p>\n<p>In the winter of 1955\/56, the horse shoe shaped construction of water and ice was reinforced with natural stone, and at the same time the radius of the curve was increased. For the following winter, a 4.5 metre quarry-stone wall was erected, to which was added a 1.75 metre high wooden wall. In 1995, the curve was again adjusted for increased speed by increasing the radius again and placing safty barrier on top of the curve. But the Horse Shoe is still a round shape, or rather a spectacular semi-circle, reminiscent of an arena.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div><\/section><\/div><div class=\"slide-entry-wrap\"><section class='slide-entry av-lezhw9tc-2-4-118f38fbc8e5cc64b7412a8cd0aef5e8 flex_column av_fullwidth post-entry slide-entry-overview slide-loop-6 slide-parity-odd  first'  itemscope=\"itemscope\" itemtype=\"https:\/\/schema.org\/CreativeWork\" ><h3 class='slide-entry-title entry-title '  itemprop=\"headline\" >TELEPHONE CORNER<\/h3><div class='slide-entry-excerpt entry-content'  itemprop=\"text\" ><div class=\"main_image\">\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-258\" src=\"\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2023\/03\/cresta_bob_museum_bobrun_telephonecorner.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"212\" \/><\/p>\n<h3>TELEPHONE<br \/>\nCORNER<\/h3>\n<\/div>\n<div>\n<div class=\"iconbox_custom\">\n<div>\n<div class=\"basicflex\">\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"\/wp-content\/themes\/enfold-child\/img\/icon_info.svg\" alt=\"Name\" \/><\/p>\n<div><strong>Name<\/strong><br \/>\nNamed after the first telephone installation on the course.<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"basicflex\">\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"\/wp-content\/themes\/enfold-child\/img\/icon_streckenprofil.svg\" alt=\"Position\" \/><\/p>\n<div>\n<p><strong>Position<\/strong><br \/>\n851\u2009m after the Start<br \/>\n66\u2009m lower than the start altitude<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"basicflex\">\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"\/wp-content\/themes\/enfold-child\/img\/icon_bedeutung.svg\" alt=\"Bedeutung\" \/><\/p>\n<div>\n<p><strong>Significance<\/strong><br \/>\nA crucial point of the section from the Horse Shoe to Devil Dyke\u2019s Corner<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<h3>The big rumble<\/h3>\n<p>The first big \u2013 or tight \u2013 turns, the Sunny Corner and the Horse Shoe, have been mastered. But the athletes are far from being able to breathe a sigh of relief as they approach the Telephone Corner. Quite the opposite. This was once confirmed by the comment of the legendary Swiss bobsleigh pilot Franz Kapus: \u201cI can close my eyes and hear the sound of the runners to know if the bobsleigh is being driven well. If there is a rumble at Telephone Corner, then hops and malt will be lost in Shamrock as well.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Time and again a loud rumble is heard in Telephone Corner. In 1995, the passionate bobsledder Prince Albert of Monaco crashed here. And there have been accidents here since the early days of the Bob Run. That is why a telephone was installed at the corner, to be able to report delays caused by accidents to the Start.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div><\/section><\/div><div class=\"slide-entry-wrap\"><section class='slide-entry av-lezhw9tc-2-3-06ec84a8a95602eba9da762310825baf flex_column av_fullwidth post-entry slide-entry-overview slide-loop-7 slide-parity-odd  first'  itemscope=\"itemscope\" itemtype=\"https:\/\/schema.org\/CreativeWork\" ><h3 class='slide-entry-title entry-title '  itemprop=\"headline\" >NAMELESS CORNER<\/h3><div class='slide-entry-excerpt entry-content'  itemprop=\"text\" ><div class=\"main_image\">\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-258\" src=\"\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2023\/03\/cresta_bob_museum_bobrun_namelesscorner.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"212\" \/><\/p>\n<h3>NAMELESS<br \/>\nCORNER<\/h3>\n<\/div>\n<div>\n<div class=\"iconbox_custom\">\n<div>\n<div class=\"basicflex\">\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"\/wp-content\/themes\/enfold-child\/img\/icon_info.svg\" alt=\"Name\" \/><\/p>\n<div><strong>Name<\/strong><br \/>\nThe only corner not named after a person or characteristic of the course.<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"basicflex\">\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"\/wp-content\/themes\/enfold-child\/img\/icon_streckenprofil.svg\" alt=\"Position\" \/><\/p>\n<div>\n<p><strong>Position<\/strong><br \/>\n1\u200a015\u2009m after the Start<br \/>\n82\u2009m lower than the start altitude<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"basicflex\">\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"\/wp-content\/themes\/enfold-child\/img\/icon_bedeutung.svg\" alt=\"Bedeutung\" \/><\/p>\n<div>\n<p><strong>Significance<\/strong><br \/>\nPreparation for Tree Corner and Bridge Corner<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<h3>A tricky passage<\/h3>\n<p>Devils Dyke? Sounds dangerous. Let\u2019s ask Fritz L\u00fcdi what this Devil\u2019s Dyke curve is all about. After all, Fritz L\u00fcdi has won the Bronze (1974), and Silver (1977), in the two-man bobsleigh events at World Championships in St.\u202fMoritz. Describing the section of the course up to Devil\u2019s Dyke Corner he said \u201cDefinitely the most difficult. The bobsleigh doesn\u2019t always respond to what the pilot gives in terms of impulses on the ropes.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>As a result, the bobsleigh can be unstable as it enters Nameless Corner from Devil\u2019s Dyke Corner. And yet the Nameless Corner should ideally be used as preparation for the next difficult passage with the Tree Corner and Bridge Corner.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div><\/section><\/div><div class=\"slide-entry-wrap\"><section class='slide-entry av-lezhw9tc-2-2-93145eb0601d68fafa304d4bf6aa7cd3 flex_column av_fullwidth post-entry slide-entry-overview slide-loop-8 slide-parity-odd  first'  itemscope=\"itemscope\" itemtype=\"https:\/\/schema.org\/CreativeWork\" ><h3 class='slide-entry-title entry-title '  itemprop=\"headline\" >BRIDGE CORNER<\/h3><div class='slide-entry-excerpt entry-content'  itemprop=\"text\" ><div class=\"main_image\">\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-258\" src=\"\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2023\/03\/cresta_bob_museum_bobrun_bridgecorner.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"212\" \/><\/p>\n<h3>BRIDGE<br \/>\nCORNER<\/h3>\n<\/div>\n<div>\n<div class=\"iconbox_custom\">\n<div>\n<div class=\"basicflex\">\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"\/wp-content\/themes\/enfold-child\/img\/icon_info.svg\" alt=\"Name\" \/><\/p>\n<div><strong>Name<\/strong><br \/>\nNamed after the now visible railway bridge<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"basicflex\">\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"\/wp-content\/themes\/enfold-child\/img\/icon_streckenprofil.svg\" alt=\"Position\" \/><\/p>\n<div>\n<p><strong>Position<\/strong><br \/>\n1\u200a215\u2009m after the Start<br \/>\n97\u2009m lower than the start altitude<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"basicflex\">\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"\/wp-content\/themes\/enfold-child\/img\/icon_bedeutung.svg\" alt=\"Bedeutung\" \/><\/p>\n<div>\n<p><strong>Significance<\/strong><br \/>\nThe last big turn before the steep section after the \u201cLeap\u201d<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<h3>First the tree, then the bridge<\/h3>\n<p>To see what comes next is not always easy on the winding ice track of St.\u202fMoritz. Bobsleigh pilots have always looked forward to the Tree Corner\u2026. from here you could see a prominent tree which marked the next bend, the Bridge Corner. The Bridge Corner itself sometimes gave a bit of a \u201cpunch\u201d \u2013 in 1974, the newspaper \u201cDer Bund\u201d wrote \u201cThe rapid transition from the horizontal position of the bobsleigh to the vertical occurs so quickly that it usually delivers a powerful blow to the people at the back of the bob.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>The newspaper also described what was coming next: After the Leap, the track drops more than 20 metres in the next 100 metres. The existing high speed increases even more. Faster, and faster!<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div><\/section><\/div><div class=\"slide-entry-wrap\"><section class='slide-entry av-lezhw9tc-2-1-1-d9f23d50b78536d4dd0c54e222e128bc flex_column av_fullwidth post-entry slide-entry-overview slide-loop-9 slide-parity-odd  post-entry-last  first'  itemscope=\"itemscope\" itemtype=\"https:\/\/schema.org\/CreativeWork\" ><h3 class='slide-entry-title entry-title '  itemprop=\"headline\" >FINISH<\/h3><div class='slide-entry-excerpt entry-content'  itemprop=\"text\" ><div class=\"main_image\">\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-258\" src=\"\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2023\/03\/cresta_bob_museum_bobrun_ziel.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"212\" \/><\/p>\n<h3>FINISH<\/h3>\n<\/div>\n<div>\n<div class=\"iconbox_custom\">\n<div>\n<div class=\"basicflex\">\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"\/wp-content\/themes\/enfold-child\/img\/icon_info.svg\" alt=\"Name\" \/><\/p>\n<div><strong>Finish Olympia Bob Run<\/strong><br \/>\n1738 m a.s.l, followed by a braking zone to 1758 m a.s.l.<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"basicflex\">\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"\/wp-content\/themes\/enfold-child\/img\/icon_streckenprofil.svg\" alt=\"Streckenprofil\" \/><\/p>\n<div>\n<p><strong>Course Profile<\/strong><br \/>\nLength: 1\u200a722\u2009m<br \/>\nHeight Difference: 130\u2009m<br \/>\nNumber of bends: 19<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"basicflex\">\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"\/wp-content\/themes\/enfold-child\/img\/icon_bedeutung.svg\" alt=\"Bedeutung\" \/><\/p>\n<div>\n<p><strong>Significance<\/strong><br \/>\nThe oldest bobsleigh track in the world still in use (1904)<br \/>\nThe only natural ice track in the world (ie. without refrigeration)<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<h3>The impression is deceptive<\/h3>\n<p>Out of the forest, the God da Ruinatsch, into the vastness before Celerina: the final section of the Olympic Bob Run appears almost gentle when viewed from Celerina. At the point called the \u201cLeap\u201c, the Finish seems to be within reach. Except, from the Leap, the course goes steeply downhill and then even ascends. From the Leap to the Gunter Sachs Corner, the track drops a good 20 metres over a distance of just 50 metres. And after Martineau Corner, the course goes further uphill through Portago Corner \u2013 to a Finish only a few metres lower than the Leap!<\/p>\n<p>The final part of the Bob Run is therefore an uphill and a downhill run, or rather a downhill and uphill run. And if the highest speeds of the course are reached on Martineau Corner, it will soon become clear who will be climbing to a podium position.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div><\/section><\/div><\/div><\/div><\/p><\/div>\n\n<\/div><\/div><\/div><!-- close content main div --><\/div><\/div>\n<style type=\"text\/css\" data-created_by=\"avia_inline_auto\" id=\"style-css-av-s5f6c-7228683c8c90fe0c05d2252d7d66a51c\">\n.avia-section.av-s5f6c-7228683c8c90fe0c05d2252d7d66a51c{\nmargin-top:0px;\nmargin-bottom:100px;\n}\n<\/style>\n<div id='av_section_4'  class='avia-section av-s5f6c-7228683c8c90fe0c05d2252d7d66a51c main_color avia-section-default avia-no-border-styling  avia-builder-el-18  el_after_av_section  el_before_av_section  avia-bg-style-scroll container_wrap fullsize'  ><div class='container av-section-cont-open' ><div class='template-page content  av-content-full alpha units'><div class='post-entry post-entry-type-page post-entry-1774'><div class='entry-content-wrapper clearfix'>\n<div  class='flex_column av-n903g-e9aa5930cc25ab6063d55fa4adc569ab av_one_full  avia-builder-el-19  avia-builder-el-no-sibling  first flex_column_div av-animated-generic bottom-to-top  '     ><section  class='av_textblock_section av-yjz8-daa5b703bbbdf87780d78c7fba10d93a '   itemscope=\"itemscope\" itemtype=\"https:\/\/schema.org\/CreativeWork\" ><div class='avia_textblock'  itemprop=\"text\" ><h2 style=\"text-align: center;\">THE BOB RUN IN 3D<\/h2>\n<\/div><\/section><br \/>\n\n<style type=\"text\/css\" data-created_by=\"avia_inline_auto\" id=\"style-css-av-6wz44-213f8025359ef3e02785fc2c31de5244\">\n#top .hr.hr-invisible.av-6wz44-213f8025359ef3e02785fc2c31de5244{\nheight:50px;\n}\n<\/style>\n<div  class='hr av-6wz44-213f8025359ef3e02785fc2c31de5244 hr-invisible  avia-builder-el-21  el_after_av_textblock  el_before_av_codeblock '><span class='hr-inner '><span class=\"hr-inner-style\"><\/span><\/span><\/div><br \/>\n<\/p><\/div>\n\n<\/div><\/div><\/div><!-- close content main div --><\/div><\/div><div id='av_section_5'  class='avia-section av-lg0u57bp-a1ca65dc7728a8651c42dc22043da752 alternate_color avia-section-default avia-no-border-styling  avia-builder-el-23  el_after_av_section  el_before_av_section  avia-bg-style-scroll container_wrap fullsize'  ><div class='container av-section-cont-open' ><div class='template-page content  av-content-full alpha units'><div class='post-entry post-entry-type-page post-entry-1774'><div class='entry-content-wrapper clearfix'>\n<div  class='flex_column av-489ms-2ce401012197c358a9f5412bf38957e6 av_one_fourth  avia-builder-el-24  el_before_av_one_half  avia-builder-el-first  first flex_column_div av-animated-generic bottom-to-top  '     ><\/div><div  class='flex_column av-111zas-dbaf4ffe1e8f5b6269b5ff34c4aa179d av_one_half  avia-builder-el-25  el_after_av_one_fourth  el_before_av_one_fourth  flex_column_div av-animated-generic bottom-to-top  '     ><section  class='av_textblock_section av-yio9g-48669f85c21b9c6dcba69b4e2f1df1f8 '   itemscope=\"itemscope\" itemtype=\"https:\/\/schema.org\/CreativeWork\" ><div class='avia_textblock'  itemprop=\"text\" ><h3 style=\"text-align: center;\">SUPERLATIVE<\/h3>\n<\/div><\/section><br \/>\n<section  class='av_textblock_section av-q9tj8-507b12c666392df47f9291e8fbd39a08 '   itemscope=\"itemscope\" itemtype=\"https:\/\/schema.org\/CreativeWork\" ><div class='avia_textblock'  itemprop=\"text\" ><p style=\"text-align: center;\">\u2014 oldest natural ice track in the world still in use (built in 1904)<br \/>\n\u2014 the only natural ice rink in the world (without artificial refrigeration)<br \/>\n\u2014 the venue of the 1928 and 1948 Winter Olympics<span class=\"Apple-converted-space\"><br \/>\n\u2014 Used for more than twenty bobsleigh world championships<\/span><\/p>\n<\/div><\/section><\/p><\/div><div  class='flex_column av-l1zyk-14ada4239e77faa35ecd125d562fa8e4 av_one_fourth  avia-builder-el-28  el_after_av_one_half  avia-builder-el-last  flex_column_div av-animated-generic bottom-to-top  '     ><\/div>\n\n<\/div><\/div><\/div><!-- close content main div --><\/div><\/div><div id='construction'  class='avia-section av-1a77x8-eae3103e8d47fcd922421d074e0cbdb0 main_color avia-section-huge avia-no-border-styling  avia-builder-el-29  el_after_av_section  el_before_av_section  avia-bg-style-scroll container_wrap fullsize'  ><div class='container av-section-cont-open' ><div class='template-page content  av-content-full alpha units'><div class='post-entry post-entry-type-page post-entry-1774'><div class='entry-content-wrapper clearfix'>\n<div  class='flex_column av-9ar2s-17649c427960a39f8383df37a4b2689a av_one_full  avia-builder-el-30  el_before_av_one_half  avia-builder-el-first  first flex_column_div av-animated-generic bottom-to-top  '     ><section  class='av_textblock_section av-lbwcaep7-df85e62771846eab2fa2332fc2055011 '   itemscope=\"itemscope\" itemtype=\"https:\/\/schema.org\/CreativeWork\" ><div class='avia_textblock'  itemprop=\"text\" ><h2 style=\"text-align: center;\">TRACK CONSTRUCTION<\/h2>\n<\/div><\/section><\/div><div  class='flex_column av-nl0ys-076c4cefa69991c876529a7b12e925c9 av_one_half  avia-builder-el-32  el_after_av_one_full  el_before_av_one_half  first flex_column_div av-animated-generic bottom-to-top  column-top-margin'     ><section  class='av_textblock_section av-e1kro-f7869fbe2404c2255b206ff0931efd89 '   itemscope=\"itemscope\" itemtype=\"https:\/\/schema.org\/CreativeWork\" ><div class='avia_textblock'  itemprop=\"text\" ><h3 style=\"text-align: center;\">CONSTRUCTION BEGINS<\/h3>\n<\/div><\/section><br \/>\n<section  class='av_textblock_section av-bobbo-f2a4d5dde22a57ab05e38b87ffe4f042 '   itemscope=\"itemscope\" itemtype=\"https:\/\/schema.org\/CreativeWork\" ><div class='avia_textblock'  itemprop=\"text\" ><p>The Engadiner Post reported in February 1903: \u201cThe question of the creation of a special bobsleigh run seems close to being resolved.\u201d The company \u201cMr Badrutt &#038; Co\u201d has offered to advance more than half of the 12,000 Franc construction cost; the Bobsleigh Club is to raise 5,000 Francs itself, and then gradually pay off the loan. The \u201cMr Badrutt &#038; Co\u201d referred to is in essence, the Badrutt family from the Kulm Hotel. A good part of the planned bobsleigh track runs over their land.<\/p>\n<p>The \u201cBobbers\u201c already know how to build curves and ice them \u2013 a good three years earlier they had built, watered and iced three curves on the cantonal road. The Community of St.\u202fMoritz was \u201cnot amused\u201d. Now, in 1903, they are building the world\u2019s first non-road bob run. And even today, hands and shovels are still used every year.<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>The construction work begins here at Sunny Corner at the end of November. The workers, experienced track builders from South Tyrol, work their way forward in the direction of travel.. After a good 350 metres, they create the shell of the legendary Horse Shoe, after a kilometre they build the extensive Martineau Corner, (the lowest point of the track), and then work their way up from there to the Portago Corner, the Finish at 1738 metres, and the outlet up to the ramp, the end point of the track (1785metres).<\/li>\n<li>Once the Finish has been reached, it\u2019s off to the Start. Now the ice canal is built to Sunny Corner.<\/li>\n<li>Then the construction team splits up, with each employee responsible for the finishing touches on a specific section of the track.<\/li>\n<li>Once the Bob Run has been completed and opened, the track builders maintain their section of the track each afternoon. This maintenance work can easily last four hours daily.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/div><\/section><\/p><\/div><div  class='flex_column av-xcwek-a669b2b611de0fe6e6feecdf777117c2 av_one_half  avia-builder-el-35  el_after_av_one_half  avia-builder-el-last  flex_column_div av-animated-generic bottom-to-top  column-top-margin'     ><\/div>\n\n<\/div><\/div><\/div><!-- close content main div --><\/div><\/div><div id='evolution'  class='avia-section av-lbdtqxwe-3fd31867cb64b7f241c48e2d8ac17d43 alternate_color avia-section-huge avia-no-border-styling  avia-builder-el-37  el_after_av_section  el_before_av_section  bob_entwicklung avia-bg-style-scroll container_wrap fullsize'  ><div class='container av-section-cont-open' ><div class='template-page content  av-content-full alpha units'><div class='post-entry post-entry-type-page post-entry-1774'><div class='entry-content-wrapper clearfix'>\n<div  class='flex_column av-831rw-86292bc3ac9b89b5ece1ee0c3eefc2ce av_one_full  avia-builder-el-38  avia-builder-el-no-sibling  first flex_column_div av-animated-generic bottom-to-top  '     ><section  class='av_textblock_section av-lbdtr6r7-3e540c3a0ded47ac8ff7d6ece69dbc98 '   itemscope=\"itemscope\" itemtype=\"https:\/\/schema.org\/CreativeWork\" ><div class='avia_textblock'  itemprop=\"text\" ><h2 style=\"text-align: center;\">THE DEVELOPMENT OF THE BOBSLEIGH<\/h2>\n<\/div><\/section><br \/>\n<div  class='avia-content-slider-element-container av-lbdttox0-59bd7b2dfd67e8f1038854bdfbe25144 avia-content-slider-element-slider avia-content-slider avia-smallarrow-slider avia-content-slider-active avia-content-slider-odd  avia-builder-el-40  el_after_av_textblock  avia-builder-el-last  av-slideshow-ui av-control-default av-nav-arrows-visible av-nav-dots-visible av-no-slider-navigation av-slideshow-manual av-loop-once av-loop-manual-endless avia-content-slider2' data-slideshow-options=\"{&quot;animation&quot;:&quot;slide&quot;,&quot;autoplay&quot;:false,&quot;loop_autoplay&quot;:&quot;once&quot;,&quot;interval&quot;:5,&quot;loop_manual&quot;:&quot;manual-endless&quot;,&quot;autoplay_stopper&quot;:false,&quot;noNavigation&quot;:false,&quot;bg_slider&quot;:false,&quot;keep_padding&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;hoverpause&quot;:false,&quot;show_slide_delay&quot;:30}\"><div class='avia-smallarrow-slider-heading  no-content-slider-heading '><div class='new-special-heading'>&nbsp;<\/div><div class='avia-slideshow-arrows avia-slideshow-controls' ><a href='#prev' class='prev-slide ' aria-hidden='true' data-av_icon='\ue87c' data-av_iconfont='entypo-fontello'  tabindex='-1'>Previous<\/a><a href='#next' class='next-slide ' aria-hidden='true' data-av_icon='\ue87d' data-av_iconfont='entypo-fontello'  tabindex='-1'>Next<\/a><\/div><\/div><div class=\"avia-content-slider-inner\"><div class=\"slide-entry-wrap\"><section class='slide-entry av-lbdttodb-d60612e47a50f11f490b4c744b2bbe94 flex_column av_fullwidth post-entry slide-entry-overview slide-loop-1 slide-parity-odd  first'  itemscope=\"itemscope\" itemtype=\"https:\/\/schema.org\/CreativeWork\" ><h3 class='slide-entry-title entry-title '  itemprop=\"headline\" >Slide 1<\/h3><div class='slide-entry-excerpt entry-content'  itemprop=\"text\" ><div>\n<p>A horseshoe in the snow? Doesn\u2019t the shape of the spectacular curve bring back memories of Christian Mathis? In 1889, the St.\u202fMoritz blacksmith and carter built one of the very first bobsleighs. He was commissioned by William H. Bulpett, one of the founding fathers of the nearby Cresta Run. The British Major had recognised the potential of one of the first improvised steerable bobsleighs made of two sleds, which he had seen in Davos.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<div>\n<p>And what did this bobsleigh of Bulpett and Mathis look like? In one word: terrifying! With British humour, people in St.\u202fMoritz spoke of a \u201cdiabolical looking steed\u201d, a devilish-looking warhorse. And in a log of the St Moritz Tobogganing Club, the bobsleigh is described as follows: &#8220;The thing of destiny is steered with a rod like a bicycle and the great weight and the power of the steering make it faster than any single sled.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Click on the arrow to learn more about the development of the bobsleigh.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div><\/section><\/div><div class=\"slide-entry-wrap\"><section class='slide-entry av-lbdtwvmp-71cdcbadf7fa34c708a8194672e88b2f flex_column av_fullwidth post-entry slide-entry-overview slide-loop-2 slide-parity-odd  first'  itemscope=\"itemscope\" itemtype=\"https:\/\/schema.org\/CreativeWork\" ><h3 class='slide-entry-title entry-title '  itemprop=\"headline\" >01: The Mathis-Bobsleigh<\/h3><div class='slide-entry-excerpt entry-content'  itemprop=\"text\" ><p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-510\" src=\"https:\/\/cresta-bob-museum-stmoritz.ch\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2023\/09\/01_mathis_bobsleigh_duplex.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"1000\" height=\"699\" \/><\/p>\n<div>\n<h3 style=\"text-align: center;\">The Mathis-Bobsleigh<\/h3>\n<p>The bobsleigh consists of two low sleds made of British steel, with the front sled being used for steering &#8211; by means of ropes. Usually five people sit upright on cushions on the Mathis bobsleigh.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div><\/section><\/div><div class=\"slide-entry-wrap\"><section class='slide-entry av-lbdtwvmp-4-618fb4fb12c95baa303e090e92bb99ba flex_column av_fullwidth post-entry slide-entry-overview slide-loop-3 slide-parity-odd  first'  itemscope=\"itemscope\" itemtype=\"https:\/\/schema.org\/CreativeWork\" ><h3 class='slide-entry-title entry-title '  itemprop=\"headline\" >02: The Roessinger-\u2009\/\u2009Bachmann-Bobsleigh<\/h3><div class='slide-entry-excerpt entry-content'  itemprop=\"text\" ><p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-514\" src=\"https:\/\/cresta-bob-museum-stmoritz.ch\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2022\/12\/02_frauen-1_duplex-1.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"1000\" height=\"699\" srcset=\"https:\/\/cresta-bob-museum-stmoritz.ch\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2022\/12\/02_frauen-1_duplex-1.jpg 1000w, https:\/\/cresta-bob-museum-stmoritz.ch\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2022\/12\/02_frauen-1_duplex-1-300x210.jpg 300w, https:\/\/cresta-bob-museum-stmoritz.ch\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2022\/12\/02_frauen-1_duplex-1-768x537.jpg 768w, https:\/\/cresta-bob-museum-stmoritz.ch\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2022\/12\/02_frauen-1_duplex-1-705x493.jpg 705w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1000px) 100vw, 1000px\" \/><\/p>\n<div>\n<h3 style=\"text-align: center;\">The Roessinger-\u2009\/\u2009Bachmann-Bobsleigh<\/h3>\n<p>A number of variations develop from the Mathis Bob. August Hartkopf&#8217;s bobsleigh factory in Davos became well-known &#8211; he built 17 four-man and 17 two-man bobsleighs for the Winter Olympics in St.\u202fMoritz. However, the bobsleigh by the Neuch\u00e2tel engineer Adolphe Louis Roessinger represented the first design revolution as early as 1903: Instead of ropes, the bobsleigh was now steered using a steering wheel. The Bachmann brothers in Neuch\u00e2tel subsequently acquired the patent.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div><\/section><\/div><div class=\"slide-entry-wrap\"><section class='slide-entry av-lbdtwvmp-3-0a36595c7aebf25299f6e8452f6db04b flex_column av_fullwidth post-entry slide-entry-overview slide-loop-4 slide-parity-odd  first'  itemscope=\"itemscope\" itemtype=\"https:\/\/schema.org\/CreativeWork\" ><h3 class='slide-entry-title entry-title '  itemprop=\"headline\" >03: The Feierabend-Bobsleigh<\/h3><div class='slide-entry-excerpt entry-content'  itemprop=\"text\" ><p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-516\" src=\"https:\/\/cresta-bob-museum-stmoritz.ch\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2022\/12\/03_Bobrun_St_Moritz_Start6_duplex-2.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"1000\" height=\"699\" srcset=\"https:\/\/cresta-bob-museum-stmoritz.ch\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2022\/12\/03_Bobrun_St_Moritz_Start6_duplex-2.jpg 1000w, https:\/\/cresta-bob-museum-stmoritz.ch\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2022\/12\/03_Bobrun_St_Moritz_Start6_duplex-2-300x210.jpg 300w, https:\/\/cresta-bob-museum-stmoritz.ch\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2022\/12\/03_Bobrun_St_Moritz_Start6_duplex-2-768x537.jpg 768w, https:\/\/cresta-bob-museum-stmoritz.ch\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2022\/12\/03_Bobrun_St_Moritz_Start6_duplex-2-705x493.jpg 705w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1000px) 100vw, 1000px\" \/><\/p>\n<div>\n<h3 style=\"text-align: center;\">The Feierabend-Bobsleigh<\/h3>\n<p>Fritz Feierabend won quite a few medals and titles in Bobsleigh, for example, at the World Championships in St.\u202fMoritz in 1947 &#8211; here he won Gold in the two-man and the four-man bobsleigh. The Engelberger also made a name for himself as a bobsleigh builder. Together with his father Carl, he developed the first all-metal bob in the late 1920s.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div><\/section><\/div><div class=\"slide-entry-wrap\"><section class='slide-entry av-lbdtwvmp-2-70848e49c1ace819aa7ebd9c168e95f1 flex_column av_fullwidth post-entry slide-entry-overview slide-loop-5 slide-parity-odd  post-entry-last  first'  itemscope=\"itemscope\" itemtype=\"https:\/\/schema.org\/CreativeWork\" ><h3 class='slide-entry-title entry-title '  itemprop=\"headline\" >04: The Podar-Bobsleigh<\/h3><div class='slide-entry-excerpt entry-content'  itemprop=\"text\" ><p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-518\" src=\"https:\/\/cresta-bob-museum-stmoritz.ch\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2022\/12\/04_IMG_Podar-Vierer_duplex-1.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"1000\" height=\"699\" srcset=\"https:\/\/cresta-bob-museum-stmoritz.ch\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2022\/12\/04_IMG_Podar-Vierer_duplex-1.jpg 1000w, https:\/\/cresta-bob-museum-stmoritz.ch\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2022\/12\/04_IMG_Podar-Vierer_duplex-1-300x210.jpg 300w, https:\/\/cresta-bob-museum-stmoritz.ch\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2022\/12\/04_IMG_Podar-Vierer_duplex-1-768x537.jpg 768w, https:\/\/cresta-bob-museum-stmoritz.ch\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2022\/12\/04_IMG_Podar-Vierer_duplex-1-705x493.jpg 705w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1000px) 100vw, 1000px\" \/><\/p>\n<div>\n<h3 style=\"text-align: center;\">The Podar-Bobsleigh<\/h3>\n<p>Franz Kapus achieved the last victory in a four-place Feierabend bobsleigh in 1956 at the Olympic Winter Games in Cortina d&#8217;Ampezzo. And that&#8217;s exactly where the new Podar bobsleighs with a rear ball bearing axle and a steering cover were born in the 1950s. They herald the modern age of bobsleigh \u2013 and were further improved in Cortina around 1960: when Sergio Siorpaes invented the movable front rail.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div><\/section><\/div><\/div><\/div><\/p><\/div>\n\n<\/div><\/div><\/div><!-- close content main div --><\/div><\/div><div id='av_section_8'  class='avia-section av-lg0v11m6-721a9a39c3199007a722c18528490756 main_color avia-section-huge avia-no-border-styling  avia-builder-el-41  el_after_av_section  el_before_av_custom_layout  bob_entwicklung avia-bg-style-scroll container_wrap fullsize'  ><div class='container av-section-cont-open' ><div class='template-page content  av-content-full alpha units'><div class='post-entry post-entry-type-page post-entry-1774'><div class='entry-content-wrapper clearfix'>\n<div  class='flex_column av-ftgx8-360ad1b7a011d29d89c1270059540403 av_one_full  avia-builder-el-42  avia-builder-el-no-sibling  first flex_column_div av-animated-generic bottom-to-top  '     ><section  class='av_textblock_section av-lg0u8ab5-bba3cc8f38e8ee6aa05e7d23a92d904a '   itemscope=\"itemscope\" itemtype=\"https:\/\/schema.org\/CreativeWork\" ><div class='avia_textblock'  itemprop=\"text\" ><h2 style=\"text-align: center;\">HIGH-TECH SLEDS<\/h2>\n<\/div><\/section><br \/>\n<div  class='avia-content-slider-element-container av-lg0v04y0-b703713475f7ee9e806e93f36ebe176f avia-content-slider-element-slider avia-content-slider avia-smallarrow-slider avia-content-slider-active avia-content-slider-odd  avia-builder-el-44  el_after_av_textblock  avia-builder-el-last  av-slideshow-ui av-control-default av-nav-arrows-visible av-nav-dots-visible av-no-slider-navigation av-slideshow-manual av-loop-once av-loop-manual-endless avia-content-slider3' 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av-lg0v03jn-5cfc85a0ad7fe1f18caeb8688f361e73 flex_column av_fullwidth post-entry slide-entry-overview slide-loop-1 slide-parity-odd  first'  itemscope=\"itemscope\" itemtype=\"https:\/\/schema.org\/CreativeWork\" ><h3 class='slide-entry-title entry-title '  itemprop=\"headline\" >01: The Monobob<\/h3><div class='slide-entry-excerpt entry-content'  itemprop=\"text\" ><p><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-510\" src=\"\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2023\/04\/mono-zweier-vierebob_illustration_4.svg\" alt=\"Monobob\" \/><\/p>\n<div>\n<h3 style=\"text-align: center;\">The Monobob<\/h3>\n<p>One athlete who starts, steers and brakes the bobsleigh after the Finish.<\/p>\n<p>Length: <strong>280 cm<\/strong>,<br \/>\nMinimum weight without athlete: <strong>163 kg<\/strong>,<br \/>\nMaximum weight with athlete:<br \/>\nWomen: <strong>248 kg<\/strong>, Men: <strong>260 kg<\/strong><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div><\/section><\/div><div class=\"slide-entry-wrap\"><section class='slide-entry av-lg0v03jn-10-cb59a44da32b424bf3a03f628a4496eb flex_column av_fullwidth post-entry slide-entry-overview slide-loop-2 slide-parity-odd  first'  itemscope=\"itemscope\" itemtype=\"https:\/\/schema.org\/CreativeWork\" ><h3 class='slide-entry-title entry-title '  itemprop=\"headline\" >02: The two person bobsleigh<\/h3><div class='slide-entry-excerpt entry-content'  itemprop=\"text\" ><p><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-510\" src=\"\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2023\/04\/mono-zweier-vierebob_illustration_1.svg\" alt=\"2er-Bob\" \/><\/p>\n<div>\n<h3 style=\"text-align: center;\">The two person bobsleigh<\/h3>\n<p>Two athletes, the Pilot who steers the bobsleigh, and the \u201cpusher\u201d who is responsible for acceleration at the Start and braking after the Finish.<\/p>\n<p>Length: <strong>320 cm<\/strong>,<br \/>\nMinimum weight without the crew: <strong>170 kg<\/strong>,<br \/>\nMaximum weight with crew:<br \/>\nWomen: <strong>330 kg<\/strong>, Men: <strong>390 kg<\/strong><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div><\/section><\/div><div class=\"slide-entry-wrap\"><section class='slide-entry av-lg0v03jn-9-a21bbc1ca7abee1991bfa43493a91d41 flex_column av_fullwidth post-entry slide-entry-overview slide-loop-3 slide-parity-odd  first'  itemscope=\"itemscope\" itemtype=\"https:\/\/schema.org\/CreativeWork\" ><h3 class='slide-entry-title entry-title '  itemprop=\"headline\" >03: The four person bobsleigh<\/h3><div class='slide-entry-excerpt entry-content'  itemprop=\"text\" ><p><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-510\" src=\"\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2023\/04\/mono-zweier-vierebob_illustration_2.svg\" alt=\"4er-Bob\" \/><\/p>\n<div>\n<h3 style=\"text-align: center;\">The four person bobsleigh<\/h3>\n<p>Four athletes; the Pilot and three \u201cpushers\u201d. The rear \u201cpusher\u201c is also responsible for breaking the bobsleigh after the Finish.<\/p>\n<p>Length:<strong> 380 cm<\/strong>,<br \/>\nMinimum weight without crew: <strong>210 kg<\/strong>,<br \/>\nMaximum weight with crew: <strong>630 kg<\/strong><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div><\/section><\/div><div class=\"slide-entry-wrap\"><section class='slide-entry av-lg0v03jn-8-22d834d4189ee75fa67e8ccd3e107a15 flex_column av_fullwidth post-entry slide-entry-overview slide-loop-4 slide-parity-odd  post-entry-last  first'  itemscope=\"itemscope\" itemtype=\"https:\/\/schema.org\/CreativeWork\" ><h3 class='slide-entry-title entry-title '  itemprop=\"headline\" >04: Para Sport<\/h3><div class='slide-entry-excerpt entry-content'  itemprop=\"text\" ><p><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-510\" src=\"\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2023\/04\/mono-zweier-vierebob_illustration_3.svg\" alt=\"4er-Bob\" \/><\/p>\n<div>\n<h3 style=\"text-align: center;\">Der Para Sport<\/h3>\n<p>Identical Monobobs are pushed at the Start by means of a special mechanical device.<\/p>\n<p>Length: <strong>280 cm<\/strong>,<br \/>\nMaximum weight (without bobsleigh) of athlete with additional athlete ballast:<strong> 100 kg<\/strong><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div><\/section><\/div><\/div><\/div><\/p><\/div>\n\n\n[av_section min_height='' min_height_pc='25' min_height_px='500px' shadow='no-border-styling' bottom_border='no-border-styling' bottom_border_diagonal_color='#333333' bottom_border_diagonal_direction='' bottom_border_style='' padding='huge' custom_margin='0px' custom_margin_sync='true' svg_div_top='' svg_div_top_color='#333333' svg_div_top_width='100' svg_div_top_height='50' svg_div_top_max_height='none' svg_div_top_opacity='' svg_div_bottom='' svg_div_bottom_color='#333333' svg_div_bottom_width='100' svg_div_bottom_height='50' svg_div_bottom_max_height='none' svg_div_bottom_opacity='' color='alternate_color' background='bg_color' custom_bg='' 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transition_speed='' autoplay='false' interval='5' heading_tag='' heading_class='' id='' custom_class='' template_class='' av_uid='av-m4cq88v0' sc_version='1.0']\n[av_content_slide title='RETO CAPADRUTT' heading_tag='' heading_class='' link='' link_dynamic='' linktarget='' title_attr='' av_uid='av-m4jvcb1i' sc_version='1.0']\n<div class=\"main_image\">\n<div class=\"main_image\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-258\" src=\"\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2023\/03\/bob_museum_fame_reto_capadrutt.jpg\" alt=\"Reto Capadrutt\" width=\"300\" height=\"212\" \/><\/div>\n<h3>RETO\nCAPADRUTT<\/h3>\n<\/div>\n<div>\n<div class=\"iconbox_custom\">\n<div>\n<div class=\"basicflex\">\n\n<img decoding=\"async\" src=\"\/wp-content\/themes\/enfold-child\/img\/icon_lebensdaten.svg\" alt=\"Lebensdaten\" \/>\n<div><strong>Reto Capadrutt<\/strong>\n*\u202f04.03.1912\n\u2020\u202f03.02.1939<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"basicflex\">\n\n<img decoding=\"async\" src=\"\/wp-content\/themes\/enfold-child\/img\/icon_nation.svg\" alt=\"Nation\" \/>\n<div>\n\n<strong>Nation<\/strong>\nSwitzerland\n\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"basicflex\">\n\n<img decoding=\"async\" src=\"\/wp-content\/themes\/enfold-child\/img\/icon_erfolge.svg\" alt=\"Grosse Erfolge\" \/>\n<div>\n\n<strong>Major successes<\/strong>\n\nOlympic Winter Games 1932: Silver in 2-man Bobsleigh\n\nOlympic Winter Games 1936: Silver in 4-man Bobsleigh\n\nBobsleigh World Championships 1935: Gold in 2-man Bobsleigh\n\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n\"He is one of the most likeable of all the foreign competitors, the Swiss student and 1935 World Champion in two-man bobsleigh: Reto Capadrutt.\" These are the words used to describe him by a German tabloid in 1936. And indeed, anyone who did not know Reto Capadrutt would hardly have credited the student with two Olympic Silver medals and a World Championship title. Reto Capadrutt was slim, rather small - and above all, modest.\n\nReto Capadrutt knew the Olympic Bob Run - and the neighboring Cresta Run - very well. But he still had an accident here in 1939: While his brakeman survived the fall almost unharmed, Reto Capadrutt was caught under his bobsleigh and was killed.\n\n<\/div>\n[\/av_content_slide]\n[av_content_slide title='RAIMUND BETHGE' heading_tag='' heading_class='' link='' link_dynamic='' linktarget='' title_attr='' av_uid='av-m4jvd7zt' sc_version='1.0']\n<div class=\"main_image\">\n<div class=\"main_image\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-258\" src=\"\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2023\/03\/bob_museum_fame_raimund_bethge.jpg\" alt=\"Raimund Bethge\" width=\"300\" height=\"212\" \/><\/div>\n<h3>RAIMUND\nBETHGE<\/h3>\n<\/div>\n<div>\n<div class=\"iconbox_custom\">\n<div>\n<div class=\"basicflex\">\n\n<img decoding=\"async\" src=\"\/wp-content\/themes\/enfold-child\/img\/icon_lebensdaten.svg\" alt=\"Lebensdaten\" \/>\n<div><strong>Raimund Bethge<\/strong>\n*\u202f07.07.1947<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"basicflex\">\n\n<img decoding=\"async\" src=\"\/wp-content\/themes\/enfold-child\/img\/icon_nation.svg\" alt=\"Nation\" \/>\n<div>\n\n<strong>Nation<\/strong>\nGermany\n\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"basicflex\">\n\n<img decoding=\"async\" src=\"\/wp-content\/themes\/enfold-child\/img\/icon_erfolge.svg\" alt=\"Grosse Erfolge\" \/>\n<div>\n\n<strong>Major successes \u2013 as a Bobsleigh Pilot<\/strong>\n\nBobsleigh World Championship 1977: Gold in 4-man Bobsleigh\n\nBobsleigh World Championship 1978: Silver in 2-man and Bronze in 4-man Bobsleigh\n\n<strong>Major Successes \u2013 as Head Coach<\/strong>\n\nA total of 102 medals won for Germany at World Championships and the Olympic Games.\n\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\nHe initially became involved in bobsledding as a pusher and won Gold in a four-man bobsleigh event in St.\u202fMoritz in 1977. However, Raimund Bethge not only gave a boost to the heavyweight crews in the ice canal, but to the sport of bobsleigh as a whole. As head coach, he led the German Skeleton and Bobsleigh teams to more than 100 medals at World Championships and Olympic Games.\n\nA unique record. All the more so because Raimund Bethge achieved this feat against the backdrop of German reunification: The head coach first had to form a new German identity out of the East and West German teams and the different personalities within. He succeeded thanks to his modest, yet success-oriented manner. Even serious accidents like the one in Cesana, where a bobsleigh hit him in 2005, could not change his approach.\n\n<\/div>\n[\/av_content_slide]\n[av_content_slide title='JEAN WICKI' heading_tag='' heading_class='' link='' link_dynamic='' linktarget='' title_attr='' av_uid='av-m4jvfksf' sc_version='1.0']\n<div class=\"main_image\">\n<div class=\"main_image\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-258\" src=\"\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2023\/03\/bob_museum_fame_jean_wicki.jpg\" alt=\"Jean Wicki\" width=\"300\" height=\"212\" \/><\/div>\n<h3>JEAN\nWICKI<\/h3>\n<\/div>\n<div>\n<div class=\"iconbox_custom\">\n<div>\n<div class=\"basicflex\">\n\n<img decoding=\"async\" src=\"\/wp-content\/themes\/enfold-child\/img\/icon_lebensdaten.svg\" alt=\"Lebensdaten\" \/>\n<div><strong>Jean Wicki<\/strong>\n*\u202f18.06.1933\n\u2020\u202f11.06.2023<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"basicflex\">\n\n<img decoding=\"async\" src=\"\/wp-content\/themes\/enfold-child\/img\/icon_nation.svg\" alt=\"Nation\" \/>\n<div>\n\n<strong>Nation<\/strong>\nSwitzerland\n\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"basicflex\">\n\n<img decoding=\"async\" src=\"\/wp-content\/themes\/enfold-child\/img\/icon_erfolge.svg\" alt=\"Grosse Erfolge\" \/>\n<div>\n\n<strong>Major successes<\/strong>\n\nOlympic Winter Games 1972: Gold in 4-man Bob, Bronze in 2-man Bob\n\nOlympic Winter Games 1968: Bronze in 4-man Bob\n\nEuropean Champion x 2, Swiss Champion x 8\n\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\nAmbition and passion: these two characteristics run through Jean Wicki's life - and led him to success in sport and in his career. Born in Valais in 1933, Jean Wicki joined the French Formula 1 racing team Gordini at the age of twenty and became a test driver. The joy of speed soon led him to bobsledding. His championship titles and medals at the Winter Olympics in Grenoble (1968) and Sapporo (1972) made him a Swiss legend in bobsleigh.\n\nProfessionally, his life path led him from piloting simple soapboxes to managing two large garages and a real estate business.\n\n<\/div>\n[\/av_content_slide]\n[av_content_slide title='EDY HUBACHER' heading_tag='' heading_class='' link='' link_dynamic='' linktarget='' title_attr='' av_uid='av-m4jvg43h' sc_version='1.0']\n<div class=\"main_image\">\n<div class=\"main_image\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-258\" src=\"\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2023\/03\/bob_museum_fame_edy_hubacher.jpg\" alt=\"Edy Hubacher\" width=\"300\" height=\"212\" \/><\/div>\n<h3>EDY\nHUBACHER<\/h3>\n<\/div>\n<div>\n<div class=\"iconbox_custom\">\n<div>\n<div class=\"basicflex\">\n\n<img decoding=\"async\" src=\"\/wp-content\/themes\/enfold-child\/img\/icon_lebensdaten.svg\" alt=\"Lebensdaten\" \/>\n<div><strong>Edy Hubacher<\/strong>\n*\u202f15.04.1940<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"basicflex\">\n\n<img decoding=\"async\" src=\"\/wp-content\/themes\/enfold-child\/img\/icon_nation.svg\" alt=\"Nation\" \/>\n<div>\n\n<strong>Nation<\/strong>\nSwitzerland\n\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"basicflex\">\n\n<img decoding=\"async\" src=\"\/wp-content\/themes\/enfold-child\/img\/icon_erfolge.svg\" alt=\"Grosse Erfolge\" \/>\n<div>\n\n<strong>Major successes in Bobsleigh<\/strong>\n\nOlympic Winter Games 1972: Gold in 4-man Bobsleigh, Bronze in 2-man Bobsleigh\n\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\nBorn in Bern in 1940, Edy Hubacher is known as a shot-putter, discus thrower and \"the nation's enigma\". As a shot-putter, he bettered the Swiss record 15 times in a row, and as a discus thrower he did so five times. As a crossword designer, Edy Hubacher, a teacher and track and field athlete with 16 championship titles to his name, created numerous crossword puzzles for various magazines.\n\nAnd as a bobsledder ....he also excelled. As a member of Jean Wicki's four-man bobsleigh team, together with Hans Leutenegger and Werner Camichel, he won an Olympic Gold medal in Sapporo in 1972. He came to bobsledding rather by chance: he had observed bobsleighers' pushing exercises at the sports school in Magglingen, tried it himself under the watchful eye of Jean Wicki - and achieved a best time at his first attempt.\n\n<\/div>\n[\/av_content_slide]\n[av_content_slide title='HANS LEUTENEGGER' heading_tag='' heading_class='' link='' link_dynamic='' linktarget='' title_attr='' av_uid='av-m4jvh3do' sc_version='1.0']\n<div class=\"main_image\">\n<div class=\"main_image\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-258\" src=\"\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2023\/03\/bob_museum_fame_hans_leutenegger.jpg\" alt=\"Hans Leutenegger\" width=\"300\" height=\"212\" \/><\/div>\n<h3>HANS\nLEUTENEGGER<\/h3>\n<\/div>\n<div>\n<div class=\"iconbox_custom\">\n<div>\n<div class=\"basicflex\">\n\n<img decoding=\"async\" src=\"\/wp-content\/themes\/enfold-child\/img\/icon_lebensdaten.svg\" alt=\"Lebensdaten\" \/>\n<div><strong>Hans Leutenegger<\/strong>\n*\u202f16.01.1940<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"basicflex\">\n\n<img decoding=\"async\" src=\"\/wp-content\/themes\/enfold-child\/img\/icon_nation.svg\" alt=\"Nation\" \/>\n<div>\n\n<strong>Nation<\/strong>\nSwitzerland\n\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"basicflex\">\n\n<img decoding=\"async\" src=\"\/wp-content\/themes\/enfold-child\/img\/icon_erfolge.svg\" alt=\"Grosse Erfolge\" \/>\n<div>\n\n<strong>Major success<\/strong>\n\nOlympic Winter Games 1972: Gold in 4-man Bobsleigh\n\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\nFrom farmer's son to metalworker, bobsledder, actor and entrepreneur: Hans \"Hausi\" Leutenegger was and is active in many fields - and he likes to do it fast. Born in 1940 in rural Thurgau, Hans Leutenegger first became a metalworker - and soon founded a specialist recruitment company. Today, a good 1,000 employees work for the Hans Leutenegger Group. He came to bobsledding as a national gymnast and won Olympic Gold in the four-man bobsleigh in 1972 in Sapporo together with Jean Wicki, Werner Camichel and Edy Hubacher.\n\nHans Leutenegger also became known as the \"Burt Reynolds\" of the Alps. The versatile man can be seen as an actor, amongst others, in the action film \"Kommando Leopard\" (1985), alongside Lewis Collins and Klaus Kinski.\n\n<\/div>\n[\/av_content_slide]\n[av_content_slide title='WERNER CAMICHEL' heading_tag='' heading_class='' link='' link_dynamic='' linktarget='' title_attr='' av_uid='av-m4jvihbr' sc_version='1.0']\n<div class=\"main_image\">\n<div class=\"main_image\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-258\" src=\"\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2023\/03\/bob_museum_fame_werner_camichel.jpg\" alt=\"Werner Camichel\" width=\"300\" height=\"212\" \/><\/div>\n<h3>WERNER\nCAMICHEL<\/h3>\n<\/div>\n<div>\n<div class=\"iconbox_custom\">\n<div>\n<div class=\"basicflex\">\n\n<img decoding=\"async\" src=\"\/wp-content\/themes\/enfold-child\/img\/icon_lebensdaten.svg\" alt=\"Lebensdaten\" \/>\n<div><strong>Werner Camichel<\/strong>\n*\u202f26.01.1945\n\u2020\u202f27.03.2006<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"basicflex\">\n\n<img decoding=\"async\" src=\"\/wp-content\/themes\/enfold-child\/img\/icon_nation.svg\" alt=\"Nation\" \/>\n<div>\n\n<strong>Nation<\/strong>\nSwitzerland\n\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"basicflex\">\n\n<img decoding=\"async\" src=\"\/wp-content\/themes\/enfold-child\/img\/icon_erfolge.svg\" alt=\"Grosse Erfolge\" \/>\n<div>\n\n<strong>Major successes<\/strong>\n\nOlympic Winter Games 1972: Gold in 4-man Bobsleigh\n\nBobsleigh World Championships 1973 & 1975: Gold in 4-man Bobsleigh\n\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n\"Sport is my life,\" said Werner Camichel. The sporting highlight of this life was in 1972 in Sapporo: Werner Camichel won Olympic Gold in the four-man bobsleigh \"Switzerland I\" with Jean Wicki, Hans Leutenegger and Edy Hubacher. In 1973 and 1975, the qualified electrician and passionate decathlete, skier and ice hockey player became World Champion in Erich Sch\u00e4rer's four-man bobsleigh.\n\nWerner Camichel was not only a passionate bobsledder, he also promoted the sport \u2013 amongst his other duties, he was the longstanding, esteemed and innovative Operations Manager of the Olympic Bob Run. He knew the track very well, having won several medals here at Swiss Championships.\n\n<\/div>\n[\/av_content_slide]\n[av_content_slide title='ANTHONY NASH' heading_tag='' heading_class='' link='' link_dynamic='' linktarget='' title_attr='' av_uid='av-m4jvj5y2' sc_version='1.0']\n<div class=\"main_image\">\n\n<img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-258\" src=\"\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2023\/03\/bob_museum_fame_anthony_nash.jpg\" alt=\"Anthony Nash\" width=\"300\" height=\"212\" \/>\n<h3>ANTHONY\nNASH<\/h3>\n<\/div>\n<div>\n<div class=\"iconbox_custom\">\n<div>\n<div class=\"basicflex\">\n\n<img decoding=\"async\" src=\"\/wp-content\/themes\/enfold-child\/img\/icon_lebensdaten.svg\" alt=\"Lebensdaten\" \/>\n<div><strong>Anthony Nash<\/strong>\n*\u202f18.03.1936\n\u2020\u202f17.03.2022<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"basicflex\">\n\n<img decoding=\"async\" src=\"\/wp-content\/themes\/enfold-child\/img\/icon_nation.svg\" alt=\"Nation\" \/>\n<div>\n\n<strong>Nation<\/strong>\nGreat Britain\n\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"basicflex\">\n\n<img decoding=\"async\" src=\"\/wp-content\/themes\/enfold-child\/img\/icon_erfolge.svg\" alt=\"Grosse Erfolge\" \/>\n<div>\n\n<strong>Major successes<\/strong>\n\nOlympic Winter Games 1964: Gold in 2-man Bobsleigh\n\nBobsleigh World Championships 1963 & 1966: Bronze in 2-man Bobsleigh\n\nBobsleigh World Championships 1965: Gold in 2-man Bobsleigh\n\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\nWhat is behind sporting success? In bobsledding, it certainly requires strength, skill, and team spirit. And sometimes subtle gestures are also decisive, as was the case with Anthony Nash and Robin Dixon's Olympic victory in Innsbruck in 1964. Of all people, their fiercest competitor, the Italian Eugenio Monti, was there to offer them a replacement for a broken bolt.\n\nThe result: The team Nash\/Dixon won Olympic Gold. Eugenio Monti and his brakeman Sergio Siorpaes finished third. That said, Nash\/Dixon were also very successful without the help of the competition. For instance here in St.\u202fMoritz, where the team won the 1965 World Championship.\n\n<\/div>\n[\/av_content_slide]\n[av_content_slide title='ROBIN DIXON' heading_tag='' heading_class='' link='' link_dynamic='' linktarget='' title_attr='' av_uid='av-m4jvjpak' sc_version='1.0']\n<div class=\"main_image\">\n\n<img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-258\" src=\"\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2023\/03\/bob_museum_fame_robin_dixonl.jpg\" alt=\"Robin Dixon\" width=\"300\" height=\"212\" \/>\n<h3>ROBIN\nDIXON<\/h3>\n<\/div>\n<div>\n<div class=\"iconbox_custom\">\n<div>\n<div class=\"basicflex\">\n\n<img decoding=\"async\" src=\"\/wp-content\/themes\/enfold-child\/img\/icon_lebensdaten.svg\" alt=\"Lebensdaten\" \/>\n<div><strong>Robin Dixon<\/strong>\n*\u202f21.04.1935<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"basicflex\">\n\n<img decoding=\"async\" src=\"\/wp-content\/themes\/enfold-child\/img\/icon_nation.svg\" alt=\"Nation\" \/>\n<div>\n\n<strong>Nation<\/strong>\nGreat Britain\n\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"basicflex\">\n\n<img decoding=\"async\" src=\"\/wp-content\/themes\/enfold-child\/img\/icon_erfolge.svg\" alt=\"Grosse Erfolge\" \/>\n<div>\n\n<strong>Major successes<\/strong>\n\nOlympic Winter Games 1964: Gold in 2-man Bobsleigh\n\nBobsleigh World Championships 1963 & 1966: Bronze in 2-man Bobsleigh\n\nBobsleigh World Championships 1965: Gold in 2-man Bobsleigh\n\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\nThe highest point in Great Britain is lower than the length of the Olympic Bob Run: the bobsleigh track measures 1,722 metres, the mountain Ben Navis is 1,345 metres high. Great Britain probably does not offer the best conditions for bobsledding. But the British teams are still successful. And that is thanks to personalities like Robin Dixon, a Baron, former Professional Officer, and brakeman.\n\nTogether with Anthony \"Tony\" Nash, Robin Dixon won numerous races and the team was one of the most successful bobsleigh teams of the 1960s. Less known may be the full name of Robin Dixon: Thomas Robin Valerian Dixon, 3rd Baron of Glentoran.\n\n<\/div>\n[\/av_content_slide]\n[av_content_slide title='HUBERT MARTINEAU' heading_tag='' heading_class='' link='' link_dynamic='' linktarget='' title_attr='' av_uid='av-m4jvk2tg' sc_version='1.0']\n<div class=\"main_image\">\n\n<img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-258\" src=\"\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2023\/03\/bob_museum_fame_hubert_martineau.jpg\" alt=\"Hubert Martineau\" width=\"300\" height=\"212\" \/>\n<h3>HUBERT\nMARTINEAU<\/h3>\n<\/div>\n<div>\n<div class=\"iconbox_custom\">\n<div>\n<div class=\"basicflex\">\n\n<img decoding=\"async\" src=\"\/wp-content\/themes\/enfold-child\/img\/icon_lebensdaten.svg\" alt=\"Lebensdaten\" \/>\n<div><strong>Hubert Martineau<\/strong>\n*\u202f24.10.1891\n\u2020\u202f11.09.1976<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"basicflex\">\n\n<img decoding=\"async\" src=\"\/wp-content\/themes\/enfold-child\/img\/icon_nation.svg\" alt=\"Nation\" \/>\n<div>\n\n<strong>Nation<\/strong>\nGreat Britain\n\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"basicflex\">\n\n<img decoding=\"async\" src=\"\/wp-content\/themes\/enfold-child\/img\/icon_erfolge.svg\" alt=\"Grosse Erfolge\" \/>\n<div>\n\n<strong>Great merits<\/strong>\n\nPresident of the Saint Moritz Bobsleigh Club from 1923 until 1969\n\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\nHubert Martineau witnessed both Winter Olympics in St.\u202fMoritz in a very special way: In 1928, he saw the teams of William Fiske (USA II) and Jennison Heaton (USA I) race to Gold and Silver, and his stepson Henry Martineau finish 9th in the GBR I bobsleigh team. In 1948, Hubert Martineau also very carefully watched the women's figure skating: he acted as a competition judge at these Winter Olympics.\n\nAt the same time, Hubert Martineau himself was a sportsman through and through. The Briton loved cricket, horse racing - and bobsledding. He promoted the latter right here in St.\u202fMoritz: Hubert Martineau was president of the Saint Moritz Bobsleigh Club for 46 years.\n\n<\/div>\n[\/av_content_slide]\n[av_content_slide title='ERICH SCH\u00c4RER' heading_tag='' heading_class='' link='' link_dynamic='' linktarget='' title_attr='' av_uid='av-m4jvnapk' sc_version='1.0']\n<div class=\"main_image\">\n\n<img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-258\" src=\"\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2023\/03\/bob_museum_fame_erich_schaerer.jpg\" alt=\"Erich Sch\u00e4rer\" width=\"300\" height=\"212\" \/>\n<h3>ERICH\nSCH\u00c4RER<\/h3>\n<\/div>\n<div>\n<div class=\"iconbox_custom\">\n<div>\n<div class=\"basicflex\">\n\n<img decoding=\"async\" src=\"\/wp-content\/themes\/enfold-child\/img\/icon_lebensdaten.svg\" alt=\"Lebensdaten\" \/>\n<div><strong>Erich Sch\u00e4rer<\/strong>\n*\u202f01.09.1946<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"basicflex\">\n\n<img decoding=\"async\" src=\"\/wp-content\/themes\/enfold-child\/img\/icon_nation.svg\" alt=\"Nation\" \/>\n<div>\n\n<strong>Nation<\/strong>\nSwitzerland\n\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"basicflex\">\n\n<img decoding=\"async\" src=\"\/wp-content\/themes\/enfold-child\/img\/icon_erfolge.svg\" alt=\"Grosse Erfolge\" \/>\n<div>\n\n<strong>Major successes<\/strong>\n\nOlympic Winter Games 1980: Gold in 2-man Bobsleigh\n\nOlympic Winter Games 1976 & 1980: Silver in 4-man Bobsleigh\n\nOlympic Winter Games 1976: Bronze in 2-man Bobsleigh\n\nBobsleigh World Championships l978, 1979, 1982: Gold in 2-man Bobsleigh\n\nBobsleigh World Championships 1971, 1973, 1975, 1986: Gold in 4-man Bobsleigh\n\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\nA policeman stopped Erich Sch\u00e4rer on the street, and seeing that he wasn't wearing a seatbelt, said: \"So Mr Sch\u00e4rer, you don't wear a seatbelt in a bobsleigh either, do you!\" There are plenty of anecdotes like this about bobsleigh legend Erich Sch\u00e4rer. The most successful Swiss bobsledder of all time did not always get away with it: he was fined in St.\u202fMoritz, for example, for violating the advertising ban; he had stuck three stripes on his bobsleigh that was similar to the logo of a sporting goods brand. His comment that he had become World Champion three times was not convincing!\n\nHe did, however, become World Champion again on a number of occasions, for a total of seven titles. And the man from Zurich has no shortage of medals: Erich Sch\u00e4rer stood on the podium 14 times at World Championships, and was European Champion three times.\n\n<\/div>\n[\/av_content_slide]\n[av_content_slide title='GUNTER SACHS' heading_tag='' heading_class='' link='' link_dynamic='' linktarget='' title_attr='' av_uid='av-m4cqtqe8' sc_version='1.0']\n<div class=\"main_image\">\n\n<img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-258\" src=\"\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2023\/03\/bob_museum_fame_gunter_sachs.jpg\" alt=\"Gunter Sachs\" width=\"300\" height=\"212\" \/>\n<h3>GUNTER\nSACHS<\/h3>\n<\/div>\n<div>\n<div class=\"iconbox_custom\">\n<div>\n<div class=\"basicflex\">\n\n<img decoding=\"async\" src=\"\/wp-content\/themes\/enfold-child\/img\/icon_lebensdaten.svg\" alt=\"Lebensdaten\" \/>\n<div><strong>Gunter Sachs<\/strong>\n*\u202f14.11.1932\n\u2020\u202f07.05.2011<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"basicflex\">\n\n<img decoding=\"async\" src=\"\/wp-content\/themes\/enfold-child\/img\/icon_nation.svg\" alt=\"Nation\" \/>\n<div>\n\n<strong>Nation<\/strong>\nGermany\n\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"basicflex\">\n\n<img decoding=\"async\" src=\"\/wp-content\/themes\/enfold-child\/img\/icon_erfolge.svg\" alt=\"Grosse Erfolge\" \/>\n<div>\n\n<strong>Major successes and great merits<\/strong>\n\nJunior European Championships 1959: Gold in 2-man Bobsleigh\n\nPresident of the Saint Moritz Bobsleigh Club from 1969 until 2011\n\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\nBrigitte Bardot, Andy Warhol, Nino Bibbia: Gunter Sachs knew them all. He married the French actress, promoted the American artist, and brought the St.\u202fMoritz winter sportsman to the screen - or rather to his sports documentary \"Happening in White\u201d. Gunter Sachs became known as a playboy and bon vivant. In St.\u202fMoritz, for example, he is said to have once hurtled down the Bob Run in a coffin.\n\nWhat is often forgotten is that Gunter Sachs was also extremely reliable and generous. He promoted bobsledding in St.\u202fMoritz as a patron and was President of the Saint Moritz Bobsleigh Club for 42 years.\n\n<\/div>\n[\/av_content_slide]\n[av_content_slide title='FRITZ FEIERABEND' heading_tag='' heading_class='' link='' link_dynamic='' linktarget='' title_attr='' av_uid='av-m4cqtqe8' sc_version='1.0']\n<div class=\"main_image\">\n\n<img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-258\" src=\"\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2024\/12\/bob_museum_fame_fritz_feierabend.jpg\" alt=\"Fritz Feierabend\" width=\"300\" height=\"212\" \/>\n<h3>FRITZ\nFEIERABEND<\/h3>\n<\/div>\n<div>\n<div class=\"iconbox_custom\">\n<div>\n<div class=\"basicflex\">\n\n<img decoding=\"async\" src=\"\/wp-content\/themes\/enfold-child\/img\/icon_lebensdaten.svg\" alt=\"Lebensdaten\" \/>\n<div><strong>Fritz Feierabend<\/strong>\n*\u202f29.06.1908\n\u2020\u202f25.11.1978<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"basicflex\">\n\n<img decoding=\"async\" src=\"\/wp-content\/themes\/enfold-child\/img\/icon_nation.svg\" alt=\"Nation\" \/>\n<div>\n\n<strong>Nation<\/strong>\nSwitzerland<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"basicflex\">\n\n<img decoding=\"async\" src=\"\/wp-content\/themes\/enfold-child\/img\/icon_erfolge.svg\" alt=\"Grosse Erfolge\" \/>\n<div>\n\n<strong>Major successes<\/strong>\n\nOlympic Winter Games 1936, 1948, 1952: 3 \u00d7 Silver, 2 \u00d7 Bronze\n\nBobsleigh World Championships 1935, 1938, 1939, 1947, 1949 1950, 1954, 1955: 7 x Gold, 2 \u00d7 Silver, 3 \u00d7 Bronze<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<strong>Swiss bobsleigh athlete, World Champion and bobsleigh designer<\/strong>\nFritz Feierabend was active from 1933 to 1955 and was one of the most successful bobsleigh pilots in the world during this time, both in two-man and four-man bobsleigh. He won a number of medals and titles. For example, at the 1947 World Championships in St. Moritz he won twice: Gold in the two-man bobsleigh and Gold in the four-man bobsleigh.\nTogether with his father Carl, Feierabend constructed the world's first bobsleigh sled made entirely of steel, which became known as the \u2018Feierabend bob\u2019. He won six Gold, three Silver and three Bronze medals at World Championships and came second three times and third twice at the Olympic Games. Although he had to take a break from competition for several years during the Second World War, he was able to continue and even surpass his earlier successes after 1947.<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<div>\n[\/av_content_slide]\n[av_content_slide title='FELIX ENDRICH' heading_tag='' heading_class='' link='' link_dynamic='' linktarget='' title_attr='' av_uid='av-m4cqtqe8' sc_version='1.0']\n<div class=\"main_image\">\n\n<img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-258\" src=\"\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2024\/12\/bob_museum_fame_felix_endrich.jpg\" alt=\"Felix Endrich\" width=\"300\" height=\"212\" \/>\n<h3>FELIX ENDRICH<\/h3>\n<\/div>\n<div>\n<div class=\"iconbox_custom\">\n<div>\n<div class=\"basicflex\">\n\n<img decoding=\"async\" src=\"\/wp-content\/themes\/enfold-child\/img\/icon_lebensdaten.svg\" alt=\"Lebensdaten\" \/>\n<div><strong>Felix Endrich<\/strong>\n*\u202f05.12.1921\n\u2020\u202f31.01.1953<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"basicflex\">\n\n<img decoding=\"async\" src=\"\/wp-content\/themes\/enfold-child\/img\/icon_nation.svg\" alt=\"Nation\" \/>\n<div>\n\n<strong>Nation<\/strong>\nSwitzerland\n\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"basicflex\">\n\n<img decoding=\"async\" src=\"\/wp-content\/themes\/enfold-child\/img\/icon_erfolge.svg\" alt=\"Grosse Erfolge\" \/>\n<div>\n\n<strong>Major successes<\/strong>\n\nOlympic Winter Games 1948: Gold in 2-man Bobsleigh\n\nBobsleigh World Championships 1947, 1949, 1951, 1953: 3 \u00d7 Gold, 1 \u00d7 Silver, 1 \u00d7 Bronze\n\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<strong>Swiss Bobsleigh athlete and Olympic Champion<\/strong>\nFelix Endrich competed twice at the Olympic Games. In 1948, he was Olympic Champion in the two-man bobsleigh and fourth in the four-man bobsleigh at the Winter Olympics in St. Moritz. He also had the honour of leading the Swiss team as flag bearer at the opening ceremony of the Games. At the 1952 Winter Olympics in Oslo, he finished fourth in both the two-man and four-man bobsleigh.\n\nAt the 1947 Bobsleigh World Championships, he claimed the World Champion title in the four-man bobsleigh as Fritz Feierabend's team-mate, and came second in the two-man bobsleigh with his regular team-mate Fritz Waller. Two years later, in 1949, Endrich and Waller won the two-man bobsleigh world championship. In 1953, he again won the two-man bobsleigh world championship with Fritz St\u00f6ckli as his pusher. One week after winning this title on the Riessersee Olympic Bobsleigh Run in Garmisch-Partenkirchen, he had a fatal accident on the same track when he came out of the notorious Bayern Curve in his four-man bobsleigh. Endrich suffered a broken neck and died on the way to hospital.\n\n<\/div>\n[\/av_content_slide]\n[av_content_slide title='EUGENIO MONTI' heading_tag='' heading_class='' link='' link_dynamic='' linktarget='' title_attr='' av_uid='av-m4cqtqe8' sc_version='1.0']\n<div class=\"main_image\">\n\n<img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-258\" src=\"\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2024\/12\/bob_museum_fame_eugenio_monti_2.jpg\" alt=\"Eugenio Monti\" width=\"300\" height=\"212\" \/>\n<h3>EUGENIO MONTI<\/h3>\n<\/div>\n<div>\n<div class=\"iconbox_custom\">\n<div>\n<div class=\"basicflex\">\n\n<img decoding=\"async\" src=\"\/wp-content\/themes\/enfold-child\/img\/icon_lebensdaten.svg\" alt=\"Lebensdaten\" \/>\n<div><strong>Eugenio Monti<\/strong>\n*\u202f23.01.1928\n\u2020\u202f01.12.2003<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"basicflex\">\n\n<img decoding=\"async\" src=\"\/wp-content\/themes\/enfold-child\/img\/icon_nation.svg\" alt=\"Nation\" \/>\n<div>\n\n<strong>Nation<\/strong>\nItaly<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"basicflex\">\n\n<img decoding=\"async\" src=\"\/wp-content\/themes\/enfold-child\/img\/icon_erfolge.svg\" alt=\"Grosse Erfolge\" \/>\n<div>\n\n<strong>Major successes<\/strong>\n\nOlympic Winter Games 1956, 1964, 1968: 2 \u00d7 Gold, 2 \u00d7 Silver, 2 \u00d7 Bronze\n\nBobsleigh World Championships 1957, 1958, 1959, 1960, 1961, 1963, 1966: 9 \u00d7 Gold, 1 \u00d7 Silver<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<strong>Italian Bobsleigh athlete and Olympic Champion<\/strong>\nDuring the 1950s and 1960s, Monti won 10 medals at the World Bobsleigh Championships, (9 of them Gold), and was Olympic Champion in the two-man and four-man bobsleigh at the 1968 Olympic Games in Grenoble. His collection of medals was completed by two Silver medals (two-man and four-man bobsleigh) at the 1956 Winter Olympics in Cortina d'Ampezzo, and two Bronze medals in Innsbruck in 1964. In 1964, he was honoured with the first Pierre de Coubertin World Fair Play Award after giving Anthony Nash and Robin Dixon, the eventual winners in the two-man bobsleigh, a replacement for a broken screw that he had taken from his own bobsleigh. His successes make him, together with the German Francesco Friedrich, the most successful bobsleigh pilot of all time. The 18th bend of the Cesana Pariol Olympic track in Cesana (Turin 2006) was named after him. After his death in 2003, the 1956 Olympic track was renamed Pista Olimpica Eugenio Monti in his honour and is now being rebuilt as a new track for the 2026 Winter Olympics.<\/div>\n[\/av_content_slide]\n[av_content_slide title='NICO BARACCHI' heading_tag='' heading_class='' link='' link_dynamic='' linktarget='' title_attr='' av_uid='av-m4cqtqe8' sc_version='1.0']\n<div class=\"main_image\">\n\n<img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-258\" src=\"\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2024\/12\/bob_museum_fame_nico_baracchi_2.jpg\" alt=\"Nico Baracchi\" width=\"300\" height=\"212\" \/>\n<h3>NICO BARACCHI<\/h3>\n<\/div>\n<div>\n<div class=\"iconbox_custom\">\n<div>\n<div class=\"basicflex\">\n\n<img decoding=\"async\" src=\"\/wp-content\/themes\/enfold-child\/img\/icon_lebensdaten.svg\" alt=\"Lebensdaten\" \/>\n<div><strong>Nico Baracchi<\/strong>\n*\u202f19.04.1957\n\u2020\u202f24.03.2015<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"basicflex\">\n\n<img decoding=\"async\" src=\"\/wp-content\/themes\/enfold-child\/img\/icon_nation.svg\" alt=\"Nation\" \/>\n<div>\n\n<strong>Nation<\/strong>\nSwitzerland<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"basicflex\">\n\n<img decoding=\"async\" src=\"\/wp-content\/themes\/enfold-child\/img\/icon_erfolge.svg\" alt=\"Grosse Erfolge\" \/>\n<div>\n\n<strong>Major successes<\/strong>\n\nWorld Championships 1982 Skeleton, 1989 Bobsleigh: 2 \u00d7 Silver\n\nEuropean Championships 1983, 1984, 1985, 1986 Skeleton, 1988 Bobsleigh: 3 \u00d7 Gold, 1 \u00d7 Silver, 1 \u00d7 Bronze<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<strong>Swiss Skeleton and Bobsleigh pilot<\/strong>\nNico Baracchi was, in 1981, selected to be part of the Swiss national skeleton team as a Cresta rider after just one day of training. At the 1982 World Championships in St. Moritz, he was placed second behind Gert Els\u00e4sser. This was followed in 1983 at the European Championships in Igls with a third place finish. In 1984 in Winterberg, 1985 in Sarajevo and 1986 in St. Moritz, he won the European Championship title.\n\nHe then switched to bobsleigh as a pilot. His best year was 1989, when he won Silver at the World Championships in Cortina d'Ampezzo in the four-man bobsleigh with his pushers Christian Reich, (who would later become a world-class bobsleigh pilot himself), Donat Acklin, and Ren\u00e9 Mangold, finishing behind the bob piloted by Gustav Weder (Gold), and ahead of Wolfgang Hoppe (Bronze). He finished third in both the overall two-man Bobsleigh World Cup and the combined two-man and four-man Bobsleigh World Cup in the 1988\/89 season.\n\nNico Baracchi was a gifted athlete and, in addition to bobsleigh and skeleton, also excelled in alpine skiing, golf and many other sports.<\/div>\n[\/av_content_slide]\n[av_content_slide title='SEPP BENZ' heading_tag='' heading_class='' link='' link_dynamic='' linktarget='' title_attr='' av_uid='av-m4cqtqe8' sc_version='1.0']\n<div class=\"main_image\">\n\n<img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-258\" src=\"\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2024\/12\/bob_museum_fame_sepp_benz_2.jpg\" alt=\"Sepp Benz\" width=\"300\" height=\"212\" \/>\n<h3>SEPP BENZ<\/h3>\n<\/div>\n<div>\n<div class=\"iconbox_custom\">\n<div>\n<div class=\"basicflex\">\n\n<img decoding=\"async\" src=\"\/wp-content\/themes\/enfold-child\/img\/icon_lebensdaten.svg\" alt=\"Lebensdaten\" \/>\n<div><strong>Sepp Benz<\/strong>\n*\u202f20.05.1944\n\u2020\u202f05.02.2021<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"basicflex\">\n\n<img decoding=\"async\" src=\"\/wp-content\/themes\/enfold-child\/img\/icon_nation.svg\" alt=\"Nation\" \/>\n<div>\n\n<strong>Nation<\/strong>\nSwitzerland<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"basicflex\">\n\n<img decoding=\"async\" src=\"\/wp-content\/themes\/enfold-child\/img\/icon_erfolge.svg\" alt=\"Grosse Erfolge\" \/>\n<div>\n\n<strong>Major successes<\/strong>\n\nOlympic Winter Games 1976, 1980: 1 \u00d7 Gold, 2 \u00d7 Silver, 1 \u00d7 Bronze\n\nBobsleigh World Championships 1975, 1977, 1978, 1979, 1981: 3 \u00d7 Gold, 2 \u00d7 Silver, 3 \u00d7 Bronze<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<strong>Swiss bobsleigh athlete, Olympic Champion, World Champion and Luge official<\/strong>\nAt the 1976 Winter Olympics in Innsbruck, he won the Silver medal in the four-man bobsleigh and the Bronze medal in the two-man bobsleigh with pilot Erich Sch\u00e4rer. Four years later, at the Winter Olympics in Lake Placid, he won the Gold medal in the two-man bobsleigh and another Silver in the four-man bobsleigh. Between 1975 and 1981, Benz won a total of three Gold medals, two Silver medals and three Bronze medals at Bobsleigh World Championships, all of them with his long-time team mate Erich Sch\u00e4rer. At the time, Benz was regarded as the \u2018brakeman of the nation\u2019 and \u2018Switzerland's fastest postman\u2019.\n\nAfter his bobsleigh career, he worked tirelessly for the sport of luge in Switzerland as an official of the SBSV (now Swiss Sliding). Together with the national coach at the time, Josef Lenz, he negotiated a training partnership agreement with the German Luge Federation, which is still in place today. He was also active for many years (1989 to 2014) with the International Luge Federation FIL (F\u00e9d\u00e9ration Internationale de Luge de Course). At the 2008, 2009, 2011, 2012, 2013 Luge World Championships and at the 2010 and 2014 Winter Olympics, he served as the President of the Jury. From 2007 to 2014, as an Executive Member of the FIL, Benz held the position of Head of Sport and Chairman of the Sport Commission. He is considered one of the fathers of the Team Relay discipline, which was introduced in the 2010\/11 season.\n\nBenz died of COVID-19 on 5th February 2021 at the age of 76. A minute's silence was held in his honour at the World Cup final of the 2020\/21 season on the Olympia Bob Run St. Moritz-Celerina. He had campaigned for the final, which could not be held in China due to the COVID-19 pandemic, to take place in St. Moritz and would have been there as an SBSV official had it not been for his illness. The Sepp Benz Memorial Race on the Olympia Bob Run St. Moritz Celerina was created in his honour.<\/div>\n[\/av_content_slide]\n[av_content_slide title='SILVIO GIOBELLINA' heading_tag='' heading_class='' link='' link_dynamic='' linktarget='' title_attr='' av_uid='av-m4cqtqe8' sc_version='1.0']\n<div class=\"main_image\">\n\n<img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-258\" src=\"\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2024\/12\/bob_museum_fame_silvio_giobellina.jpg\" alt=\"Silvio Giobellina\" width=\"300\" height=\"212\" \/>\n<h3>SILVIO GIOBELLINA<\/h3>\n<\/div>\n<div>\n<div class=\"iconbox_custom\">\n<div>\n<div class=\"basicflex\">\n\n<img decoding=\"async\" src=\"\/wp-content\/themes\/enfold-child\/img\/icon_lebensdaten.svg\" alt=\"Lebensdaten\" \/>\n<div><strong>Silvio Giobellina<\/strong>\n*\u202f28.02.1954<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"basicflex\">\n\n<img decoding=\"async\" src=\"\/wp-content\/themes\/enfold-child\/img\/icon_nation.svg\" alt=\"Nation\" \/>\n<div>\n\n<strong>Nation<\/strong>\nSwitzerland\n\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"basicflex\">\n\n<img decoding=\"async\" src=\"\/wp-content\/themes\/enfold-child\/img\/icon_erfolge.svg\" alt=\"Grosse Erfolge\" \/>\n<div>\n\n<strong>Major successes<\/strong>\n\nOlympic Winter Games 1984: Bronze in 4-man bobsleigh\n\nBobsleigh World Championships: 1982 Gold and 1985 Silver in 4-man bobsleigh\n\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<strong>Swiss bobsleigh athlete and aerodynamic bobsleigh designer<\/strong>\nBefore devoting himself entirely to bobsleigh in 1974, Giobellina was also active in cycling, swimming and skiing. In 1978, he made his first international appearance while making his Swiss bobsleigh debut, when he won the Bronze medal in the four-man bobsleigh at the European Junior Championships. He won his first senior Gold medal in 1982 with Rico Freiermuth, Urs Salzmann and Heinz Stettler at the Bobsleigh World Championships in St. Moritz. In the following years, he won Bronze (1983, 1988) and Gold (1984, 1985) twice in the four-man bobsleigh at the European Bobsleigh Championships. Giobellina also competed together with Freiermuth, Salzmann and Stettler at the 1984 Winter Olympics in Sarajevo, where they finished third behind the two GDR bobsleigh teams. Giobellina was also active in bobsleigh construction and made innovative modifications to the existing models, particularly in the development of aerodynamic bonnet construction for bobsleighs.\n\nAfter the 1988 European Championships, Giobellina retired from bobsleighing, and worked as technical director for the French bobsleigh team until 1994. In 1999, he became manager of a toboggan park in his home village of Leysin.\n\n<\/div>\n[\/av_content_slide]\n[av_content_slide title='HANS HILTEBRAND' heading_tag='' heading_class='' link='' link_dynamic='' linktarget='' title_attr='' av_uid='av-m4cqtqe8' sc_version='1.0']\n<div class=\"main_image\">\n\n<img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-258\" src=\"\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2024\/12\/bob_museum_fame_hans_hiltebrand.jpg\" alt=\"Hans Hiltebrand\" width=\"300\" height=\"212\" \/>\n<h3>HANS HILTEBRAND<\/h3>\n<\/div>\n<div>\n<div class=\"iconbox_custom\">\n<div>\n<div class=\"basicflex\">\n\n<img decoding=\"async\" src=\"\/wp-content\/themes\/enfold-child\/img\/icon_lebensdaten.svg\" alt=\"Lebensdaten\" \/>\n<div><strong>Hans Hiltebrand<\/strong>\n*\u202f18.01.1945<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"basicflex\">\n\n<img decoding=\"async\" src=\"\/wp-content\/themes\/enfold-child\/img\/icon_nation.svg\" alt=\"Nation\" \/>\n<div>\n\n<strong>Nation<\/strong>\nSwitzerland\n\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"basicflex\">\n\n<img decoding=\"async\" src=\"\/wp-content\/themes\/enfold-child\/img\/icon_erfolge.svg\" alt=\"Grosse Erfolge\" \/>\n<div>\n\n<strong>Major successes<\/strong>\n\nBobsleigh World Championships: 1977 Gold in 2-man bobsleigh, 1981 Silver in 4-man bobsleigh, 1982 and 1987 Silver in 2-man bobsleigh, 1987 Gold in 4-man bobsleigh\n\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<strong>Swiss bobsleigh athlete, World Champion, coach and bobsleigh designer<\/strong>\nTrained as an electrician, he started bobsleighing in 1970. In 1972, he won the European title in the four-man bobsleigh together with Herbert Ott and Rudolf Born as a team member of bobsleigh pilot Hansruedi M\u00fcller.\n\nStarting in 1975, Hiltebrand became a bobsleigh pilot himself and took second place in the two-man bobsleigh at the 1975 Swiss Championships. His international breakthrough as a bobsleigh pilot came in 1977 when he won the World Championships in the two-man bobsleigh with Heinz Meier. Following his successes in 1972 and 1977, Hiltebrand won his third international title on the natural ice track in St. Moritz when he and Walter Rahm won the two-man bobsleigh at the 1980 European Bobsleigh Championships. The Swiss won all three medals in the four-man bobsleigh, with Hans Hiltebrand, Ulrich Schindler, Walter Rahm and Armin Baumgartner taking the Bronze medal behind the bobsleighs of Erich Sch\u00e4rer and Peter Sch\u00e4rer. At the 1980 Olympic Games in Lake Placid, Hiltebrand took fourth place in the two-man bobsleigh and sixth place in the four-man bobsleigh.\n\nAt the 1981 World Championships in the four-man bobsleigh in Cortina d'Ampezzo, Hiltebrand won the Silver medal with Kurt Poletti, Franz Weinberger and Franz Isenegger behind the GDR pilot Bernhard Germeshausen.\n\nFollowing his active career, Hans Hiltebrand worked as a bobsleigh designer, and added to the wealth of experience he had acquired in earlier days. He used this expertise as a coach both at home and abroad, and for young talent in Switzerland. After winning everything but an Olympic medal in his active career, he succeeded as a coach: in 1998, his prot\u00e9g\u00e9 Pierre Lueders won Olympic Gold in the two-man bobsleigh for Canada. Hiltebrand also coached the Canadian bobsleighers until 1999. In 2002 he took charge of the Swiss team and thereafter he served as a mentor, particularly in the promotion of young talent.\n\n<\/div>\n[\/av_content_slide]\n[av_content_slide title='RALPH PICHLER' heading_tag='' heading_class='' link='' link_dynamic='' linktarget='' title_attr='' av_uid='av-m4cqtqe8' sc_version='1.0']\n<div class=\"main_image\">\n\n<img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-258\" src=\"\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2024\/12\/bob_museum_fame_ralph_pichler.jpg\" alt=\"Ralph Pichler\" width=\"300\" height=\"212\" \/>\n<h3>RALPH PICHLER<\/h3>\n<\/div>\n<div>\n<div class=\"iconbox_custom\">\n<div>\n<div class=\"basicflex\">\n\n<img decoding=\"async\" src=\"\/wp-content\/themes\/enfold-child\/img\/icon_lebensdaten.svg\" alt=\"Lebensdaten\" \/>\n<div><strong>Ralph Pichler<\/strong>\n*\u202f20.04.1954<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"basicflex\">\n\n<img decoding=\"async\" src=\"\/wp-content\/themes\/enfold-child\/img\/icon_nation.svg\" alt=\"Nation\" \/>\n<div>\n\n<strong>Nation<\/strong>\nSwitzerland\n\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"basicflex\">\n\n<img decoding=\"async\" src=\"\/wp-content\/themes\/enfold-child\/img\/icon_erfolge.svg\" alt=\"Grosse Erfolge\" \/>\n<div>\n\n<strong>Major successes<\/strong>\n\nWorld Championships 1983, 1986, 1987: 2 \u00d7 Gold in 2-man bobsleigh, 1 \u00d7 Silver in 2-man bobsleigh, 2 \u00d7 Bronze in 4-man bobsleigh\n\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<strong>Swiss bobsleigh athlete, World Champion<\/strong>\nPichler won a complete set of medals at the European Bobsleigh Championships within a period of five years, as well as two World Championship titles between 1983 and 1987. He also won one Silver and two Bronze medals at World Championships. In 1984, he took part in the Winter Olympics in Sarajevo with his team mate Rico Freiermuth. The team finished sixth.\n\nToday, Pichler lives in Canada with his wife and their two children Yannick and Jarett.\n\n<\/div>\n[\/av_content_slide]\n[av_content_slide title='EKKEHARD FASSER' heading_tag='' heading_class='' link='' link_dynamic='' linktarget='' title_attr='' av_uid='av-m4cqtqe8' sc_version='1.0']\n<div class=\"main_image\">\n\n<img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-258\" src=\"\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2024\/12\/bob_museum_fame_ekkehard_fasser.jpg\" alt=\"Ekkehard Fasser\" width=\"300\" height=\"212\" \/>\n<h3>EKKEHARD FASSER<\/h3>\n<\/div>\n<div>\n<div class=\"iconbox_custom\">\n<div>\n<div class=\"basicflex\">\n\n<img decoding=\"async\" src=\"\/wp-content\/themes\/enfold-child\/img\/icon_lebensdaten.svg\" alt=\"Lebensdaten\" \/>\n<div><strong>Ekkehard Fasser<\/strong>\n*\u202f03.09.1952\n\u2020\u202f08.04.2021<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"basicflex\">\n\n<img decoding=\"async\" src=\"\/wp-content\/themes\/enfold-child\/img\/icon_nation.svg\" alt=\"Nation\" \/>\n<div>\n\n<strong>Nation<\/strong>\nSwitzerland\n\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"basicflex\">\n\n<img decoding=\"async\" src=\"\/wp-content\/themes\/enfold-child\/img\/icon_erfolge.svg\" alt=\"Grosse Erfolge\" \/>\n<div>\n\n<strong>Major successes<\/strong>\n\nOlympic Winter Games 1988: Gold in 4-man bobsleigh\n\nBobsleigh World Championships 1983: Gold in 4-man bobsleigh\n\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<strong>Swiss bobsleigh athlete, track and field athlete and board member of Swiss Sliding<\/strong>\nIn his youth, Fasser was a track and field athlete. In the 1970s, he competed in the high jump (best performance: 1.98 m), long jump (best performance: 6.94 m) and shot put (best performance: 7 \u00bc kg; 14.52 m).\n\nAt the age of 26, Fasser switched to bobsleigh. As Ralph Pichler's pusher, he won the Silver Medal at the Junior World Championships in Winterberg in 1978. In 1981, he was called up to the B squad of the Swiss national team. A year later, Fasser took part in his first races in the World Cup and the World Championships. In 1983, he won both the World and European Championship titles in the four-man bobsleigh with Hans M\u00e4rchy, Kurt Poletti and Rolf Strittmatter. At the 1984 Winter Olympics, the quartet took fourth place in the four-man bobsleigh competition and in the 1985\/86 World Cup season, his team won the four-man bobsleigh competition. At the 1988 Winter Olympics in Calgary, Fasser again competed in the four-man bobsleigh event with Kurt Meier, Marcel F\u00e4ssler and Werner Stocker. After the first run, the Swiss bobsleigh was more than half a second behind in seventh place. But in the following two runs, Fasser produced two good runs and, thanks to a poor run by Wolfgang Hoppe from the GDR, the Swiss went into the final run with a lead of 0.16 seconds, defended their advantage and were crowned Olympic champions. After the competition, Fasser ended his career as a bobsledder.\n\nFollowing his retirement, Fasser continued to be involved in bobsleigh and was Head of Finance at the Swiss Sliding Association from 2015 to 2019. Privately, Fasser worked as a self-employed construction manager and property manager.\n\nIn April 2021, Fasser died at the age of 68 after a short, serious illness.\n\n<\/div>\n[\/av_content_slide]\n[av_content_slide title='ERMANNO GARDELLA' heading_tag='' heading_class='' link='' link_dynamic='' linktarget='' title_attr='' av_uid='av-m4cqtqe8' sc_version='1.0']\n<div class=\"main_image\">\n\n<img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-258\" src=\"\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2024\/12\/bob_museum_fame_ermanno_gardella.jpg\" alt=\"Ermanno Gardella\" width=\"300\" height=\"212\" \/>\n<h3>ERMANNO GARDELLA<\/h3>\n<\/div>\n<div>\n<div class=\"iconbox_custom\">\n<div>\n<div class=\"basicflex\">\n\n<img decoding=\"async\" src=\"\/wp-content\/themes\/enfold-child\/img\/icon_lebensdaten.svg\" alt=\"Lebensdaten\" \/>\n<div><strong>Ermanno Gardella<\/strong>\n*\u202f11.04.1942<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"basicflex\">\n\n<img decoding=\"async\" src=\"\/wp-content\/themes\/enfold-child\/img\/icon_nation.svg\" alt=\"Nation\" \/>\n<div>\n\n<strong>Nation<\/strong>\nItaly\n\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"basicflex\">\n\n<img decoding=\"async\" src=\"\/wp-content\/themes\/enfold-child\/img\/icon_erfolge.svg\" alt=\"Grosse Erfolge\" \/>\n<div>\n\n<strong>Great merits<\/strong>\n\nSecretary General of the International Bobsleigh & Skeleton Federation IBSF from 1971 to 2012.\n\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\nErmanno Gardella was Secretary General of the International Bobsleigh & Skeleton Federation IBSF (then FIBT \/ F\u00e9d\u00e9ration Internationale de Bobsleigh et de Tobogganing) from 1971 to 2012. The Italian served under four presidents in the truest sense of the word and for 41 years - always discreetly in the background - skilfully guided the fortunes of the Olympic winter sports federation.\n\nGardella, who was appointed Secretary General in 1971 during the term of office of the Italian Dr Amilcare Rotta (FIBT President from 1960 - 1980), was always valued as a reliable partner by all national federations. In close cooperation with the German Klaus Kotter (FIBT President 1980 - 1994), Gardella made a significant contribution to keeping bobsleigh in the Olympic programme. His successes also include the inclusion of skeleton as an Olympic discipline (from 2002) during the term of office of the Canadian Robert F. Storey (FIBT President 1994 - 2010). Ermanno Gardella continues to be one of the Federation\u2019s most valued mentors today. Despite his retirement in 2012, he has always remained connected to the sport of bobsleigh and skeleton, and as a result of his long tenure, holds a wealth of knowledge of the history of FIBT\/IBSF, the international network and the development of sports equipment and facilities.\n\n<\/div>\n[\/av_content_slide]\n[av_content_slide title='HANS BADRUTT' heading_tag='' heading_class='' link='' link_dynamic='' linktarget='' title_attr='' av_uid='av-m4cqtqe8' sc_version='1.0']\n<div class=\"main_image\">\n\n<img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-258\" src=\"\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2024\/12\/bob_museum_fame_hans_badrutt.jpg\" alt=\"Hans Badrutt\" width=\"300\" height=\"212\" \/>\n<h3>HANS BADRUTT<\/h3>\n<\/div>\n<div>\n<div class=\"iconbox_custom\">\n<div>\n<div class=\"basicflex\">\n\n<img decoding=\"async\" src=\"\/wp-content\/themes\/enfold-child\/img\/icon_lebensdaten.svg\" alt=\"Lebensdaten\" \/>\n<div><strong>Hans Badrutt<\/strong>\n*\u202f13.11.1876\n\u2020\u202f06.02.1953<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"basicflex\">\n\n<img decoding=\"async\" src=\"\/wp-content\/themes\/enfold-child\/img\/icon_nation.svg\" alt=\"Nation\" \/>\n<div>\n\n<strong>Nation<\/strong>\nSwitzerland\n\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"basicflex\">\n\n<img decoding=\"async\" src=\"\/wp-content\/themes\/enfold-child\/img\/icon_erfolge.svg\" alt=\"Grosse Erfolge\" \/>\n<div>\n\n<strong>Great merits<\/strong>\n\nInitiator and promotor of today's Olympia Bob Run St. Moritz Celerina\n\nWas also involved in the organisation of both the 1928 and 1948 Winter Olympics.\n\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\nThe initiator and patron of today's Olympic Bob Run St. Moritz Celerina with its start in Kulmpark, \u2018Hans\u2019 Badrutt was also involved in the organisation of both the 1928 and 1948 Winter Olympics.\n\nFrom 1904 to 1953 he was the Director of the family-owned Badrutt's Palace Hotel, which he inherited from his father and hotel founder Caspar Badrutt.\n\nCaspar Badrutt was President of the Board of Directors of the Kulm Hotel until his death, hence the connection to bobsleigh and the collaboration between the two hotels.\n\n<\/div>\n[\/av_content_slide]\n[av_content_slide title='ALBERT GRIMALDI' heading_tag='' heading_class='' link='' link_dynamic='' linktarget='' title_attr='' av_uid='av-m4cqtqe8' sc_version='1.0']\n<div class=\"main_image\">\n\n<img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-258\" src=\"\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2024\/12\/bob_museum_fame_albert_grimaldi.jpg\" alt=\"Albert Grimaldi\" width=\"300\" height=\"212\" \/>\n<h3>ALBERT GRIMALDI<\/h3>\n<\/div>\n<div>\n<div class=\"iconbox_custom\">\n<div>\n<div class=\"basicflex\">\n\n<img decoding=\"async\" src=\"\/wp-content\/themes\/enfold-child\/img\/icon_lebensdaten.svg\" alt=\"Lebensdaten\" \/>\n<div><strong>Albert Grimaldi<\/strong>\n*\u202f14.03.1958<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"basicflex\">\n\n<img decoding=\"async\" src=\"\/wp-content\/themes\/enfold-child\/img\/icon_nation.svg\" alt=\"Nation\" \/>\n<div>\n\n<strong>Nation<\/strong>\nMonaco<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"basicflex\">\n\n<img decoding=\"async\" src=\"\/wp-content\/themes\/enfold-child\/img\/icon_erfolge.svg\" alt=\"Grosse Erfolge\" \/>\n<div>\n\n<strong>Major successes & merits<\/strong>\n\nParticipation in 5 Olympic Games 1988, 1992, 1994, 1998 and 2002 in bobsleigh\n\nSince 1985 member of the International Olympic Committee IOC\n\nPresident of the National Olympic Committee Monaco\n\nHonorary Live Member Saint Moritz Bobsleigh Club<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n[\/av_content_slide]\n[av_content_slide title='HANSJ\u00d6RG TRACHSEL' heading_tag='' heading_class='' link='' link_dynamic='' linktarget='' title_attr='' av_uid='av-m4cqtqe8' sc_version='1.0']\n<div class=\"main_image\">\n\n<img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-258\" src=\"\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2026\/01\/bob_museum_fame_hansjoerg_trachsel.jpg\" alt=\"Hansj\u00f6rg Trachsel\" width=\"300\" height=\"212\" \/>\n<h3>HANSJ\u00d6RG TRACHSEL<\/h3>\n<\/div>\n<div>\n<div class=\"iconbox_custom\">\n<div>\n<div class=\"basicflex\">\n\n<img decoding=\"async\" src=\"\/wp-content\/themes\/enfold-child\/img\/icon_lebensdaten.svg\" alt=\"Lebensdaten\" \/>\n<div><strong>Hansj\u00f6rg Trachsel<\/strong>\n*\u202f30.08.1948<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"basicflex\">\n\n<img decoding=\"async\" src=\"\/wp-content\/themes\/enfold-child\/img\/icon_nation.svg\" alt=\"Nation\" \/>\n<div>\n\n<strong>Nation<\/strong>\nSwitzerland<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"basicflex\">\n\n<img decoding=\"async\" src=\"\/wp-content\/themes\/enfold-child\/img\/icon_erfolge.svg\" alt=\"Grosse Erfolge\" \/>\n<div>\n\n<strong>Major successes & merits<\/strong>\n\nVice World Champion 1977 in 2-man bobsleigh in St. Moritz and World Championship bronze medal 1979\n\n1981 \u2013 1992 President of the commission of the Olympia Bob Run St. Moritz Celerina\n\n1992 \u2013 2005 Vice president of the Federation Internationale de Bobsleigh et de Tobogganing FIBT\n\n1989 \u2013 1992 President Swiss Bobsleigh Federation (SBSV)<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n[\/av_content_slide]\n[av_content_slide title='CHRISTIAN MEILI' heading_tag='' heading_class='' link='' link_dynamic='' linktarget='' title_attr='' av_uid='av-m4cqtqe8' sc_version='1.0']\n<div class=\"main_image\">\n\n<img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-258\" src=\"\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2026\/01\/bob_museum_fame_christian_meili.jpg\" alt=\"Christian Meili\" width=\"300\" height=\"212\" \/>\n<h3>CHRISTIAN MEILI<\/h3>\n<\/div>\n<div>\n<div class=\"iconbox_custom\">\n<div>\n<div class=\"basicflex\">\n\n<img decoding=\"async\" src=\"\/wp-content\/themes\/enfold-child\/img\/icon_lebensdaten.svg\" alt=\"Lebensdaten\" \/>\n<div><strong>Christian Meili<\/strong>\n*\u202f07.01.1963<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"basicflex\">\n\n<img decoding=\"async\" src=\"\/wp-content\/themes\/enfold-child\/img\/icon_nation.svg\" alt=\"Nation\" \/>\n<div>\n\n<strong>Nation<\/strong>\nSwitzerland\n\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"basicflex\">\n\n<img decoding=\"async\" src=\"\/wp-content\/themes\/enfold-child\/img\/icon_erfolge.svg\" alt=\"Grosse Erfolge\" \/>\n<div>\n\n<strong>Major successes & merits<\/strong>\n\nOlympic Games Albertville 1992 (5th place) and Lillehammer 1994 (7th place)\n\nTotal of 4500 bobsleigh rides (last ride march 2023)\n\n22 years member of the commission of the Olympia\u00a0 Bob Run, from 2006 \u2013 2018 as president\n\n2011 \u2013 2015 President Swiss Sliding\n\nLoyal guest pilot on the Olympia Bob Run\n\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n[\/av_content_slide]\n[av_content_slide title='GIANCARLO TORRIANI' heading_tag='' heading_class='' link='' link_dynamic='' linktarget='' title_attr='' av_uid='av-m4cqtqe8' sc_version='1.0']\n<div class=\"main_image\">\n\n<img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-258\" src=\"\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2026\/01\/bob_museum_fame_giancarlo_torriani.jpg\" alt=\"Giancarlo Torriani\" width=\"300\" height=\"212\" \/>\n<h3>GIANCARLO TORRIANI<\/h3>\n<\/div>\n<div>\n<div class=\"iconbox_custom\">\n<div>\n<div class=\"basicflex\">\n\n<img decoding=\"async\" src=\"\/wp-content\/themes\/enfold-child\/img\/icon_lebensdaten.svg\" alt=\"Lebensdaten\" \/>\n<div><strong>Giancarlo Torriani<\/strong>\n*\u202f16.09.1947<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"basicflex\">\n\n<img decoding=\"async\" src=\"\/wp-content\/themes\/enfold-child\/img\/icon_nation.svg\" alt=\"Nation\" \/>\n<div>\n\n<strong>Nation<\/strong>\nSwitzerland\n\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"basicflex\">\n\n<img decoding=\"async\" src=\"\/wp-content\/themes\/enfold-child\/img\/icon_erfolge.svg\" alt=\"Grosse Erfolge\" \/>\n<div>\n\n<strong>Major successes & merits<\/strong>\n\nBob Pilot and Bobsleigh Trainer\n\n1977 Swiss Champion 4-man bobsleigh\n\n1992 \u2013 1998 President Swiss Sliding\n\nHonorary President Swiss Sliding\n\nLoyal guest pilot on the Olympia Bob Run St. Moritz Celerina\n\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n[\/av_content_slide]\n[av_content_slide title='THOMAS \"THOMY\" CAPLAZI' heading_tag='' heading_class='' link='' link_dynamic='' linktarget='' title_attr='' av_uid='av-m4cqtqe8' sc_version='1.0']\n<div class=\"main_image\">\n\n<img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-258\" src=\"\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2026\/01\/bob_museum_fame_thomy_caplazi.jpg\" alt=\"Thomas Caplazi\" width=\"300\" height=\"212\" \/>\n<h3>THOMAS \"THOMY\" CAPLAZI<\/h3>\n<\/div>\n<div>\n<div class=\"iconbox_custom\">\n<div>\n<div class=\"basicflex\">\n\n<img decoding=\"async\" src=\"\/wp-content\/themes\/enfold-child\/img\/icon_lebensdaten.svg\" alt=\"Lebensdaten\" \/>\n<div><strong>Thomas \"Thomi\" Caplazi<\/strong>\n*\u202f18.06.1945<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"basicflex\">\n\n<img decoding=\"async\" src=\"\/wp-content\/themes\/enfold-child\/img\/icon_nation.svg\" alt=\"Nation\" \/>\n<div>\n\n<strong>Nation<\/strong>\nSwitzerland\n\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"basicflex\">\n\n<img decoding=\"async\" src=\"\/wp-content\/themes\/enfold-child\/img\/icon_erfolge.svg\" alt=\"Grosse Erfolge\" \/>\n<div>\n\n<strong>Major successes &amp; merits<\/strong>\n\nBob school January 1966 \/ last ride 2000\n\nVice Swiss Champion 1972\n\nGreat supporter and friend of the bobsleigh sport\n\nHonorary Member Swiss Sliding\n\nHonoray Live Member Saint Moritz Bobsleigh Club SMBC\n\nLoyal guest pilot on the Olympia Bob Run St. Moritz Celerina\n\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n[\/av_content_slide]\n[\/av_content_slider]\n\n[\/av_one_full][\/av_section]\n\n\n<style type=\"text\/css\" data-created_by=\"avia_inline_auto\" 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