Hans Hiltebrand (born 18 January 1945) is a

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der who competed from the late 1970s to the late 1980s. He won five medals at the

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with two golds (Two-man:

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, Four-man:

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) and three silvers (Two-man:

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, 1987; Four-man:

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. Competing in three

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, Hiltebrand earned his best finish of fourth in the two-man event at Lake Placid in

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. Following his retirement, he coached

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bobsleigh 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 ...

from 1989 to the

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. Afterwards he became a well known bobsleigh designer. Hiltebrand is still active in his bobsleigh club in Zurich as of 2007.

References

External links

1984 bobsleigh two-man results
* ttps://web.archive.org/web/20070927200949/http://www.bobsleigh.ca/Content/Our%20Sports/Bobsleigh%20History.asp History of bobsleigh in Canada featuring Hiltebrandbr>Schindler Metal Works of Houston, TX on president's work with Hiltebrand's bobsleighs
*Wallechinsky, David (1984). "Bobsled". In ''The Complete Book of the Olympics: 1896 - 1980''. New York: Penguin Books. pp. 559, 562. Bobsledders at the 1980 Winter Olympics Bobsledders at the 1984 Winter Olympics Bobsledders at the 1988 Winter Olympics Living people Swiss male bobsledders 1945 births Olympic bobsledders for Switzerland 20th-century Swiss people {{Switzerland-bobsleigh-bio-stub