Josef Nairz (born 5 November 1936) 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 1960s. He won a silver medal in the four-man event at the

1964 Winter Olympics The 1964 Winter Olympics, officially known as the IX Olympic Winter Games (german: IX. Olympische Winterspiele) and commonly known as Innsbruck 1964 ( bar, Innschbruck 1964, label=Austro-Bavarian), was a winter multi-sport event which was celebr ...

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. Nairz also won a bronze medal in the four-man event at the 1963 FIBT World Championships in Igls.

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

1936 births Austrian male bobsledders Olympic bobsledders for Austria Olympic silver medalists for Austria Bobsledders at the 1964 Winter Olympics Living people Olympic medalists in bobsleigh Medalists at the 1964 Winter Olympics {{Austria-bobsleigh-bio-stub