Paul Hans Eberhard (30 October 1917 – 4 September 1983) was a Swiss

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 1940s. He won the silver medal in the two-man event at the

1948 Winter Olympics The 1948 Winter Olympics, officially known as the V Olympic Winter Games (german: V. Olympische Winterspiele; french: Ves Jeux olympiques d'hiver; it, V Giochi olimpici invernali; rm, V Gieus olimpics d'enviern) and commonly known as St. Moritz ...

in St. Moritz. He was born in

Bülach , neighboring_municipalities= Bachenbülach, Eglisau, Embrach, Glattfelden, Hochfelden, Höri, Rorbas, Winkel , twintowns = Santeramo in Colle (Italy) Bülach () is an historic town and a municipality in Switzerland in the canton ...

and died in

Küsnacht Küsnacht is a municipality in the district of Meilen in the canton of Zurich in Switzerland. History Küsnacht is first mentioned in 1188 as ''de Cussenacho''. Earliest findings of settlement date back to the stone age. There are also findi ...

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Bobsleigh two-man Olympic medalists 1932-56 and since 1964

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* 1917 births 1983 deaths Bobsledders at the 1948 Winter Olympics Swiss male bobsledders Olympic medalists in bobsleigh Medalists at the 1948 Winter Olympics Olympic silver medalists for Switzerland {{Switzerland-Winter-Olympic-medalist-stub