Werner Spring

Swiss bobsledder
Werner Spring
Medal record
Bobsleigh
World Championships
Bronze medal – third place 1949 Lake Placid Four-man
Bronze medal – third place 1951 Alpe d'Huez Two-man

Werner Spring (27 March 1917 – 1959) was a Swiss bobsledder who competed in the late 1940s and the early 1950s. He won two bronze medals at the FIBT World Championships with one in the two-man event (1951) and the other in the four-man event (1949).

Spring also competed in two Winter Olympics, earning his best finish of fourth in both the two-man and four man events at Oslo in 1952.

Spring died in Zug, Switzerland, in 1959.

References

  • Bobsleigh two-man world championship medalists since 1931[dead link]
  • Bobsleigh four-man world championship medalists since 1930[dead link]
  • Wallechinsky, David (1984). "Bobsled". In The Complete Book of the Olympics: 1896-1980. New York: Penguin Books. pp. 558, 560–1.
  • Werner Spring's profile at Sports Reference.com
  • Werner Spring at OlympediaEdit on Wikidata


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