Fritz Grau (8 November 1894 – 5 July 1945)
was a German
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 1930s. He won two bronze medals 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 Olympic ...
(two-man:
1933
Events
January
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, four-man:
1930
Events
January
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). Grau was seriously injured, along with teammates
Albert Brehme and Helmut Hopnaann, shortly before the
1932 Winter Olympics
The 1932 Winter Olympics, officially known as the III Olympic Winter Games and commonly known as Lake Placid 1932, were a winter multi-sport event in the United States, held in Lake Placid, New York, United States. The games opened on February ...
. He also finished sixth in the
two-man event at the
1936 Winter Olympics
The 1936 Winter Olympics, officially known as the IV Olympic Winter Games (german: IV. Olympische Winterspiele) and commonly known as Garmisch-Partenkirchen 1936 ( bar, Garmasch-Partakurch 1936), were a winter multi-sport event held from 6 to 16 ...
in
Garmisch-Partenkirchen
Garmisch-Partenkirchen (; Bavarian: ''Garmasch-Partakurch''), nicknamed Ga-Pa, is an Alpine ski town in Bavaria, southern Germany. It is the seat of government of the district of Garmisch-Partenkirchen (abbreviated ''GAP''), in the O ...
.
References
Bobsleigh two-man world championship medalists since 1931*Wallechinsky, David (1984). "Bobsled: Two-man". In ''The Complete Book of the Olympics: 1896-1980''. New York: Penguin Books. p. 558.
''
Time
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''. 15 February 1932.
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1894 births
1945 deaths
German male bobsledders
Bobsledders at the 1936 Winter Olympics
Olympic bobsledders for Germany
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