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 ...
in
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
pilot
An aircraft pilot or aviator is a person who controls the flight of an aircraft by operating its directional flight controls. Some other aircrew members, such as navigators or flight engineers, are also considered aviators, because they a ...
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
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