Giacomo Conti (24 June 1918 – 8 July 1992) was an Italian
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 the gold medal in the two-man event at the
1956 Winter Olympics
The 1956 Winter Olympics, officially known as the VII Olympic Winter Games ( it, VII Giochi Olimpici invernali) and commonly known as Cortina d'Ampezzo 1956 ( lld, Anpezo 1956 or ), was a multi-sport event held in Cortina d'Ampezzo, Italy, from ...
in
Cortina d'Ampezzo
Cortina d'Ampezzo (; lld, Anpezo, ; historical de-AT, Hayden) is a town and ''comune'' in the heart of the southern (Dolomitic) Alps in the Province of Belluno, in the Veneto region of Northern Italy. Situated on the Boite river, in an alp ...
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Bobsleigh two-man Olympic medalists 1932-56 and since 1964
1918 births
1992 deaths
Bobsledders at the 1956 Winter Olympics
Italian male bobsledders
Olympic bobsledders for Italy
Olympic gold medalists for Italy
Olympic medalists in bobsleigh
Medalists at the 1956 Winter Olympics
Sportspeople from Palermo
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