Arthur Walter Tyler (July 26, 1915 – August 23, 2008) was an American

bobsled Bobsleigh or bobsled is a team winter sport that involves making timed runs down narrow, twisting, banked, iced tracks in a gravity-powered sleigh. International bobsleigh competitions are governed by the International Bobsleigh and Skeleton Feder ...

der who competed in the late 1950s. He won a bronze medal in the four-man event at the 1956 Winter Olympics in Cortina d'Ampezzo. Tyler also won four medals at the

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with one gold (Four-man:

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), one silver (

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), and two bronzes (Two-man: 1959, Four-man: 1957).

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Bobsleigh four-man Olympic medalists for 1924, 1932-56, and since 1964

* 1915 births 2008 deaths American male bobsledders Bobsledders at the 1956 Winter Olympics Olympic bronze medalists for the United States in bobsleigh Medalists at the 1956 Winter Olympics {{US-Winter-Olympic-medalist-stub