Charles Thomas Butler (born June 11, 1932) is a former
American
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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 1950s. He won a bronze medal in the four-man event at the
1956 Winter Olympics
The 1956 Winter Olympics, officially known as the VII Olympic Winter Games ( it, VII Giochi Olimpici invernali) and commonly known as Cortina d'Ampezzo 1956 ( lld, Anpezo 1956 or ), was a multi-sport event held in Cortina d'Ampezzo, Italy, from ...
in
Cortina d'Ampezzo
Cortina d'Ampezzo (; lld, Anpezo, ; historical de-AT, Hayden) is a town and ''comune'' in the heart of the southern (Dolomitic) Alps in the Province of Belluno, in the Veneto region of Northern Italy. Situated on the Boite river, in an alp ...
, a gold in the
1959 World Championships, and three other medals at the World Championships.
Butler is a 1955 graduate of
Brown University
Brown University is a private research university in Providence, Rhode Island. Brown is the seventh-oldest institution of higher education in the United States, founded in 1764 as the College in the English Colony of Rhode Island and Providenc ...
.
References
Bobsleigh four-man Olympic medalists for 1924, 1932-56, and since 1964All medal winners at World Bobsleigh ChampionshipsBrown University article on Olympians featuring Butler
1932 births
American male bobsledders
Bobsledders at the 1956 Winter Olympics
Olympic bronze medalists for the United States in bobsleigh
Brown University alumni
Living people
Medalists at the 1956 Winter Olympics
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