Hans Leutenegger (born January 16, 1940 in

Bichelsee-Balterswil Bichelsee-Balterswil is a municipality in the district of Münchwilen in the canton of Thurgau in Switzerland. It was formed from the union on January 1, 1996 of Bichelsee and Balterswil. History It was created in 1996 when the former municipa ...

) is a Swiss

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der who competed in the early 1970s. He won the gold medal in the four-man event at the

1972 Winter Olympics The 1972 Winter Olympics, officially the and commonly known as Sapporo 1972 ( ja, 札幌1972), was a winter multi-sport event held from February 3 to 13, 1972, in Sapporo, Japan. It was the first Winter Olympic Games to take place outside Euro ...

Sapporo ( ain, サッ・ポロ・ペッ, Satporopet, lit=Dry, Great River) is a city in Japan. It is the largest city north of Tokyo and the largest city on Hokkaido, the northernmost main island of the country. It ranks as the fifth most populous cit ...

. Leutenegger also founded his own

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firm in Switzerland in 1965, Hans Leutenegger AG, a business that continues . The company has expanded into employment search and a temporary staffing for engineering positions. He also did some acting, working with Klaus Kinski in the 1985 film '' Kommando Leopard'' (Commando Leopard).

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Bobsleigh four-man Olympic medalists for 1924, 1932-56, and since 1964

German IMDB profile

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