Beat Hefti (born 3 February 1978) is a Swiss
bobsled
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der who has competed since the late 1990s. Competing in four
Winter Olympics
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, he has won a total of four Olympic medals. A gold medal in
Sochi (
two-man,
2014
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), two bronze medals in
Torino
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(
two-man and
four-man,
2006) and another bronze medal in
Salt Lake City
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(
two-man,
2002).
Hefti has also won four medals at the
World Championships
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with one gold (Four-man:
2007), one silver (Four-man:
1999
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), and two bronzes (Two-man:
2001,
2005).
He won the
Bobsleigh World Cup
The Bobsleigh World Cup is an annual bobsleigh competitions. It has taken place since the 1984 Winter Olympics
The 1984 Winter Olympics, officially known as the XIV Olympic Winter Games ( Serbo-Croatian and Slovene: ''XIV. Zimske olimpijske ...
two-man title in
2009 and
2012
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.
References
Bobsleigh two-man Olympic medalists 1932–56 and since 1964
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Website Beat Hefti
External links
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1978 births
Bobsledders at the 2002 Winter Olympics
Bobsledders at the 2006 Winter Olympics
Bobsledders at the 2010 Winter Olympics
Bobsledders at the 2014 Winter Olympics
Living people
Olympic gold medalists for Switzerland
Olympic bronze medalists for Switzerland
Olympic bobsledders of Switzerland
Swiss male bobsledders
Olympic medalists in bobsleigh
Medalists at the 2006 Winter Olympics
Medalists at the 2002 Winter Olympics
Medalists at the 2014 Winter Olympics
People from Appenzell Ausserrhoden
21st-century Swiss people
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