Walter Steinbauer (20 January 1945 in Dissen am Teutoburger Wald – 28 May 1991) was a West German bobsledder who competed from the late 1960s to the mid-1970s. He won a bronze medal in the four-man event at the

1972 Winter Olympics The 1972 Winter Olympics, officially the and commonly known as Sapporo 1972 ( ja, 札幌1972), was a winter multi-sport event held from February 3 to 13, 1972, in Sapporo, Japan. It was the first Winter Olympic Games to take place outside Europe ...

in Sapporo. Steinbauer also won four medals in the four-man event at the FIBT World Championships with one gold (

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), one silver (

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, and two bronzes (

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

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