Giovanni Tabacchi (8 July 1931 – 2 September 2018) 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 finished fifth in the four-man event at the
1956 Winter Olympics in
Cortina d'Ampezzo. He was born in
Belluno.
Tabacchi died on 2 September 2018 in
Florence
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, aged 87.
References
1956 bobsleigh four-man results*Wallechinsky, David (1984). "Bobsled: Four-man". In ''The Complete Book of the Olympics: 1896 - 1980''. New York: Penguin Books. p. 561.
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External links
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1931 births
2018 deaths
Bobsledders at the 1956 Winter Olympics
Italian male bobsledders
Olympic bobsledders for Italy
Sportspeople from Belluno
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