Renato Mocellini (2 April 1929 – 8 November 1985) 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 from the mid-1950s to the mid-1960s. He won a silver medal in the four-man event at the 1956 Winter Olympics in Cortina d'Ampezzo. Mocellini also won two medals in the four-man event at the

FIBT World Championships The IBSF World Championships (known as the FIBT World Championships until 2015), part of the International Bobsleigh and Skeleton Federation, have taken place on an annual basis since 1930. Starting with 2002, championships of non-Winter Olympi ...

with a gold in

1963 Events January * January 1 – Bogle–Chandler case: Commonwealth Scientific and Industrial Research Organisation scientist Dr. Gilbert Bogle and Mrs. Margaret Chandler are found dead (presumed poisoned), in bushland near the Lane Co ...

and a bronze in

1958 Events January * January 1 – The European Economic Community (EEC) comes into being. * January 3 – The West Indies Federation is formed. * January 4 ** Edmund Hillary's Commonwealth Trans-Antarctic Expedition completes the third ...

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Bobsleigh four-man Olympic medalists for 1924, 1932-56, and since 1964
1929 births 1985 deaths Bobsledders at the 1956 Winter Olympics Italian male bobsledders Olympic bobsledders for Italy Olympic silver medalists for Italy Olympic medalists in bobsleigh Medalists at the 1956 Winter Olympics People from Vahrn Sportspeople from South Tyrol {{Italy-Winter-Olympic-medalist-stub