Lamberto dalla Costa (April 14, 1920 – 1982) was an Italian

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 1950s. He won the gold medal in the two-man event at the

1956 Winter Olympics The 1956 Winter Olympics, officially known as the VII Olympic Winter Games ( it, VII Giochi Olimpici invernali) and commonly known as Cortina d'Ampezzo 1956 ( lld, Anpezo 1956 or ), was a multi-sport event held in Cortina d'Ampezzo, Italy, from ...

Cortina d'Ampezzo Cortina d'Ampezzo (; lld, Anpezo, ; historical de-AT, Hayden) is a town and ''comune'' in the heart of the southern (Dolomitic) Alps in the Province of Belluno, in the Veneto region of Northern Italy. Situated on the Boite river, in an alp ...

Biography

Dalla Costa was a jet

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by trade who competed only on the Cortina track in his spare time.

References

Bobsleigh two-man Olympic medalists 1932-56 and since 1964
- Accessed August 12, 2007. *Wallechinsky, David. (1984). "Bobsled: Two-man". In ''The Complete Book of the Olympics: 1896-1980''. New York: Penguin Books. pp. 558–9.

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* * 1920 births 1982 deaths Bobsledders at the 1956 Winter Olympics Italian aviators Italian male bobsledders Olympic medalists in bobsleigh Medalists at the 1956 Winter Olympics Olympic gold medalists for Italy Place of birth missing {{Italy-bobsleigh-bio-stub