Erwin Fassbind (born 20 July 1957) is a
Swiss 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 1980s. He won two gold medals in the four-man event at the
FIBT World Championships
The IBSF World Championships (known as the FIBT World Championships until 2015), part of the International Bobsleigh and Skeleton Federation, have taken place on an annual basis since 1930. Starting with 2002, championships of non-Winter Olympi ...
, earning them in
1986
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and
1987
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. He also competed in the
four man event at the
1988 Winter Olympics.
References
External links
Bobsleigh four-man world championship medalists since 1930
1957 births
Living people
Swiss male bobsledders
Olympic bobsledders for Switzerland
Bobsledders at the 1988 Winter Olympics
20th-century Swiss people
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