Heinz Schenker (born 26 July 1943) is 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 early 1970s. He won a silver medal in the two-man event at the
1973 FIBT World Championships in
Lake Placid, New York
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The village of Lake Placid is near the center of the town of North Elba, southwest of Plattsburgh. ...
.
Schenker also competed 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 Europe ...
in
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 city ...
, finishing fourth in the four-man event and seventh in the two-man event.
References
External links
Bobsleigh two-man world championship medalists since 1931*Wallenchinsky, David (1984). "Bobsled". In ''The Complete Book of the Winter Olympics: 1896 - 1980''. New York: Penguin Books. pp. 559, 561.
1943 births
Living people
Swiss male bobsledders
Bobsledders at the 1972 Winter Olympics
Olympic bobsledders for Switzerland
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