Leonardo Cavallini (4 June 1939 – 11 July 2023) was an Italian
bobsledder who competed in the late 1960s. He won a silver medal in the two-man event at the
1966 FIBT World Championships 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 ...
. Cavallini also finished sixth 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 ...
in
Grenoble.
References
Bobsleigh two-man world championship medalists since 1931*Wallenchinsky, David. (1984). "Bobsled: Four-man". In ''The Complete Book of the Olympics: 1896-1980''. New York: Penguin Books. p. 561.
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Bobsledders at the 1968 Winter Olympics
Italian male bobsledders
1939 births
2023 deaths
Olympic bobsledders for Italy
Place of birth missing
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