Herbert Gruber (born 9 November 1942) is an

Austria Austria, , bar, Östareich officially the Republic of Austria, is a country in the southern part of Central Europe, lying in the Eastern Alps. It is a federation of nine states, one of which is the capital, Vienna, the most populous ...

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. He won a silver medal in the four-man event at the

1968 Winter Olympics The 1968 Winter Olympics, officially known as the X Olympic Winter Games (french: Les Xes Jeux olympiques d'hiver), were a winter multi-sport event held from 6 to 18 February 1968 in Grenoble, France. Thirty-seven countries participated. Frenchm ...

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and finished eighth in the two-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 Europe ...

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 ...

. Gruber also won a bronze medal in the two-man event at the 1971 FIBT World Championships in

Cervinia Breuil-Cervinia (french: Breuil; it, Cervinia; Valdôtain: ) is a ''frazione'' of the ''comune'' of Valtournenche, and is considered one of the most renowned winter and summer tourist resorts in the Alps. Etymology The name of ''Breuil-Cervini ...

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

* Wallenchinsky, David (1984). "Bobsled: Two-man". In ''The Complete Book of the Winter Olympics: 1896 - 1980''. New York: Penguin Books. p. 559. 1942 births Austrian male bobsledders Bobsledders at the 1964 Winter Olympics Bobsledders at the 1968 Winter Olympics Bobsledders at the 1972 Winter Olympics Olympic bobsledders for Austria Olympic silver medalists for Austria Living people Olympic medalists in bobsleigh Medalists at the 1968 Winter Olympics {{Austria-bobsleigh-bio-stub