Siegfried Mair (18 April 1939 – 15 May 1977) was an Italian
luger who competed from the early 1960s to the early 1970s. He was born in
Toblach
Toblach (; it, Dobbiaco ) is a ''comune''/''Gemeinde'' (municipality) in South Tyrol in northern Italy, located in the Puster Valley about northeast of the city of Bolzano, on the border with Austria.
Geography
As of November 30, 2010, it had ...
. He won the bronze medal in the men's doubles event at the
1964 Winter Olympics
The 1964 Winter Olympics, officially known as the IX Olympic Winter Games (german: IX. Olympische Winterspiele) and commonly known as Innsbruck 1964 ( bar, Innschbruck 1964, label=Austro-Bavarian), was a winter multi-sport event which was celebr ...
in
Innsbruck.
Mair also won a bronze medal in the men's doubles event at the
1967 FIL World Luge Championships in
Hammarstrand
Hammarstrand is a locality and the seat of Ragunda Municipality in Jämtland County, Sweden with 1,052 inhabitants in 2010. The town is host to a bobsleigh and luge track. It was built on the dry bed of the former lake Ragundasjön, which draine ...
,
Sweden.
He was killed in a car accident in 1977.
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Olympic Review information on Mair's death in a car crash in 1977.
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1939 births
1977 deaths
Italian male lugers
Lugers at the 1964 Winter Olympics
Lugers at the 1968 Winter Olympics
Lugers at the 1972 Winter Olympics
Road incident deaths in Italy
1977 road incidents
Olympic lugers for Italy
Place of death missing
Olympic medalists in luge
Medalists at the 1964 Winter Olympics
Olympic bronze medalists for Italy
People from Toblach
Sportspeople from South Tyrol
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