Werner Delle Karth (Alternate listings: Werner delleKarth, Werner Delle-Karth) is an

Austria Austria, , bar, Östareich officially the Republic of Austria, is a country in the southern part of Central Europe, lying in the Eastern Alps. It is a federation of nine states, one of which is the capital, Vienna, the most populous ...

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 during the 1970s. He won two medals in the four-man event at the FIBT World Championships with a silver in

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and a bronze in

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. Competing in two Winter Olympics, Delle Karth earned his best finish of sixth in the four-man event at

Innsbruck Innsbruck (; bar, Innschbruck, label=Bavarian language, Austro-Bavarian ) is the capital of Tyrol (state), Tyrol and the List of cities and towns in Austria, fifth-largest city in Austria. On the Inn (river), River Inn, at its junction with the ...

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. He also took the Athlete's Oath at those same games. Following his retirement from competition, Delle Karth embarked on a coaching career before serving as secretary general of the Austrian Bobsleigh and Skeleton Federation and as a member of the Fédération Internationale de Bobsleigh et de Tobogganing's Court of Arbitration. Werner's brothers Dieter and

Walter Delle Karth Walter Delle Karth Jr. (Alternate listings: Walter delleKarth, Walter Delle-Karth; born August 11, 1946, in Innsbruck, Tyrol) is an Austrian bobsledder who competed from the early 1970s to the mid-1980s. He won two medals in the four-man event at ...

also competed for Austria in bobsleigh at the Winter Olympics. In addition one of Werner's sons Nico Delle Karth is a competitive sailor who has been ranked number 1 in the world in the 49er class and who finished fourth in this class at the

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. Nico's older brother Jörg was a helicopter pilot who died after a crash in Gabon in 2012.

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Bobsleigh four-man world championship medalists since 1930IOC 1976 Winter Olympics
*Wallenchinsky, David (1984). "Bobsled: Four-man". In ''The Complete Book of the Olympics: 1896 - 1980''. New York: Penguin Books. pp. 561–2. Austrian male bobsledders Bobsledders at the 1972 Winter Olympics Bobsledders at the 1976 Winter Olympics Living people Olympic bobsledders for Austria Year of birth missing (living people) Austrian sports coaches Oath takers at the Olympic Games {{Austria-bobsleigh-bio-stub