Pierre Musy (25 August 1910 – 21 November 1990) was a
Swiss
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bobsled
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der and horse rider. Competing in the four-man bobsled event he won a gold medal at the
1936 Winter Olympics
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and a silver at the
FIBT World Championships 1935
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Two man bobsleigh
Four man bobsleigh
Medal table
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. As an equestrian he competed in the three-day eventing at the
1948 Summer Olympics
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and finished 32nd individually and fourth with the Swiss team.
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Musy was the son of ]Jean-Marie Musy
Jean-Marie Musy (10 April 1876 – 19 April 1952) was a Swiss politician.
Affiliated with the Christian Democratic People's Party of Switzerland, he was elected to the Federal Council of Switzerland on 11 December 1919 served until 30 April 193 ...
, who was the President of the Swiss Confederation
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in 1925 and in 1930. He graduated from Collège Saint-Michel and from the University of Bern
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with a degree in law. From 1931 to 1939 he worked at local and federal banks in Geneva. He took various military posts from 1938 through 1960s, and served as a Swiss military attaché
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in the Middle East
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(1951–1954) and European countries (1954–1961). Between 1963 and 1967 he headed the Swiss Military Intelligence Service, and after that was appointed as President of FC Fribourg
FC Fribourg is a Swiss football club from the town of Fribourg in the Canton of Fribourg. In the 2022/23 season, the team is playing in 2. Liga Interregional, the fifth highest tier in the Swiss football pyramid.
History
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References
*Wallechinsky, David. (1984). "Bobsled: Four-man". In ''The Complete Book of the Olympics: 1896–1980''. New York: Penguin Books. p. 560.
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Bobsleigh four-man Olympic medalists for 1924, 1932–56, and since 1964
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1910 births
1990 deaths
Swiss male bobsledders
Olympic bobsledders for Switzerland
Bobsledders at the 1936 Winter Olympics
Olympic gold medalists for Switzerland
Olympic medalists in bobsleigh
Medalists at the 1936 Winter Olympics
Swiss male equestrians
Olympic equestrians for Switzerland
Equestrians at the 1948 Summer Olympics
University of Bern alumni
Children of presidents
Sportspeople from the canton of Fribourg
20th-century Swiss people
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