James Neil Atkinson (January 10, 1929 – July 31, 2010) was an American
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 1950s. He won a silver medal in the four-man event at the
1952 Winter Olympics in
Oslo
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.
Atkinson also won two medals in the four-man event 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 one gold (
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 ...
) and one silver (
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*
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American male bobsledders
Bobsledders at the 1952 Winter Olympics
1929 births
2010 deaths
Medalists at the 1952 Winter Olympics
Olympic silver medalists for the United States in bobsleigh
20th-century American sportsmen
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