Sebastian "Wastl" Huber (26 June 1901 in

Füssen Füssen is a town in Bavaria, Germany, in the district of Ostallgäu, situated one kilometre from the Austrian border. The town is known for violin manufacturing and as the closest transportation hub for the Neuschwanstein and Hohenschwangau cast ...

– 6 March 1985 in

) was a German

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 late 1920s to the mid-1930s. Competing in three

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, he won two bronze medals at the

, earning Germany its first Winter Olympic medal in (

1928 Events January * January – British bacteriologist Frederick Griffith reports the results of Griffith's experiment, indirectly proving the existence of DNA. * January 1 – Eastern Bloc emigration and defection: Boris Bazhanov, J ...

) and in the four-man event (

1932 Events January * January 4 – The British authorities in India arrest and intern Mahatma Gandhi and Vallabhbhai Patel. * January 9 – Sakuradamon Incident (1932), Sakuradamon Incident: Korean nationalist Lee Bong-chang fails in his effort ...

). Huber earned three gold medals 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 Olympic ...

with one in the two-man event (

1931 Events January * January 2 – South Dakota native Ernest Lawrence invents the cyclotron, used to accelerate particles to study nuclear physics. * January 4 – German pilot Elly Beinhorn begins her flight to Africa. * January 22 – Sir I ...

) and two in the four-man event (

1934 Events January–February * January 1 – The International Telecommunication Union, a specialist agency of the League of Nations, is established. * January 15 – The 8.0 1934 Nepal–Bihar earthquake, Nepal–Bihar earthquake strik ...

1935 Events January * January 7 – Italian premier Benito Mussolini and French Foreign Minister Pierre Laval conclude Franco-Italian Agreement of 1935, an agreement, in which each power agrees not to oppose the other's colonial claims. * ...

References

Bobsleigh four-man Olympic medalists for 1924, 1932-56, and since 1964

* * Wallenchinsky, David. (1984). "Bobsled". In ''The Complete Book the Olympics: 1896-1980''. New York: Penguin Books. pp. 558–60.

External links

* * 1901 births 1985 deaths German male bobsledders Bobsledders at the 1928 Winter Olympics Bobsledders at the 1932 Winter Olympics Bobsledders at the 1936 Winter Olympics Olympic bobsledders for Germany Olympic bronze medalists for Germany Olympic medalists in bobsleigh Medalists at the 1928 Winter Olympics Medalists at the 1932 Winter Olympics Sportspeople from Füssen {{Germany-Winter-Olympic-medalist-stub