Hans Candrian (March 6, 1938 – January 9, 1999) was a
Swiss
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* the adjectival form of Switzerland
* Swiss people
Places
* Swiss, Missouri
* Swiss, North Carolina
*Swiss, West Virginia
* Swiss, Wisconsin
Other uses
*Swiss-system tournament, in various games and sports
*Swiss Internation ...
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 1960s and early 1970s. Competing in two
Winter Olympics
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, he won a bronze medal in the four-man event at
Grenoble
lat, Gratianopolis
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in
1968
The year was highlighted by protests and other unrests that occurred worldwide.
Events January–February
* January 5 – "Prague Spring": Alexander Dubček is chosen as leader of the Communist Party of Czechoslovakia.
* Januar ...
. Candrian also won four 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 ...
with four silver (Two-man:
1973
Events January
* January 1 - The United Kingdom, the Republic of Ireland and Denmark enter the European Economic Community, which later becomes the European Union.
* January 15 – Vietnam War: Citing progress in peace negotiations, U.S. ...
, Four-man:
1974
Major events in 1974 include the aftermath of the 1973 oil crisis and the resignation of United States President Richard Nixon following the Watergate scandal. In the Middle East, the aftermath of the 1973 Yom Kippur War determined politics; f ...
) and two bronzes (Two-man and four-man: both
1970
Events
January
* January 1 – Unix time epoch reached at 00:00:00 UTC.
* January 5 – The 7.1 Tonghai earthquake shakes Tonghai County, Yunnan province, China, with a maximum Mercalli intensity scale, Mercalli intensity of X (''Extrem ...
).
References
Bobsleigh four-man Olympic medalists for 1924, 1932-56, and since 1964* Wallechinsky, David (1984). "Bobsled: Two-man". In ''The Complete Book of the Olympics: 1896 - 1980''. New York: Penguin Books. p. 559.
Hans Candrian's obituary
1938 births
1999 deaths
Bobsledders at the 1968 Winter Olympics
Bobsledders at the 1972 Winter Olympics
Swiss male bobsledders
Olympic bobsledders for Switzerland
Olympic bronze medalists for Switzerland
Olympic medalists in bobsleigh
Medalists at the 1968 Winter Olympics
20th-century Swiss people
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