Heinrich Angst (August 29, 1915 – September 9, 1989) was a Swiss

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 mid-1950s. Competing in two

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, he won a gold medal in the four-man event at the Cortina d'Ampezzo in

1956 Events January * January 1 – The Anglo-Egyptian Condominium ends in Sudan. * January 8 – Operation Auca: Five U.S. evangelical Christian missionaries, Nate Saint, Roger Youderian, Ed McCully, Jim Elliot and Pete Fleming, ar ...

. Angst also won seven 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 Olympi ...

with two golds (Four-man: 1954, 1955), one silver (Two-man: 1949) and four bronzes (Two-man: 1955, Four-man: 1949,

1950 Events January * January 1 – The International Police Association (IPA) – the largest police organization in the world – is formed. * January 5 – Sverdlovsk plane crash: ''Aeroflot'' Lisunov Li-2 crashes in a snowstorm. All 19 ...

1951 Events January * January 4 – Korean War: Third Battle of Seoul – Chinese and North Korean forces capture Seoul for the second time (having lost the Second Battle of Seoul in September 1950). * January 9 – The Government of the United ...

References

Bobsleigh four-man Olympic medalists for 1924, 1932-56, and since 1964
*Wallechinsky, David (1984). "Bobsled". In ''The Complete Book of the Olympics: 1896-1980''. New York: Penguin Books. pp. 558, 560–1. 1915 births 1989 deaths Bobsledders at the 1948 Winter Olympics Bobsledders at the 1956 Winter Olympics Olympic bobsledders of Switzerland Olympic gold medalists for Switzerland Swiss male bobsledders Olympic medalists in bobsleigh Medalists at the 1956 Winter Olympics 20th-century Swiss people {{Switzerland-Winter-Olympic-medalist-stub