Werner Camichel (26 January 1945 – 27 March 2006 in

Samaden Samedan (, ) is a town and municipality in the Maloja Region in the Swiss canton of Grisons. It is served by Samedan railway station on the Rhaetian Railway network and by the Samedan Airport. History Samedan is first mentioned in 1139 as ' ...

) is a

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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 1970s. He won the gold 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 ...

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. Camichel also won two gold medals in the four-man event at the

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, winning them in

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and

1975 It was also declared the ''International Women's Year'' by the United Nations and the European Architectural Heritage Year by the Council of Europe. Events January * January 1 - Watergate scandal (United States): John N. Mitchell, H. R. ...

. Camichel carried the Swiss flag during the opening ceremonies of the

1976 Winter Olympics The 1976 Winter Olympics, officially known as the XII Olympic Winter Games (german: XII. Olympische Winterspiele, french: XIIes Jeux olympiques d'hiver) and commonly known as Innsbruck 1976 ( bar, Innschbruck 1976, label=Austro-Bavarian), was a ...

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. He later managed the bobsleigh, luge, and skeleton track in St. Moritz. Camichel died from cancer in 2006. His sons Corsin Camichel and

Duri Camichel Duri Camichel (6 May 1982 – 28 April 2015) was a Swiss professional ice hockey player. Camichel died in a traffic collision in Costa Rica. His father Werner Camichel Werner Camichel (26 January 1945 – 27 March 2006 in Samaden) ...

were ice hockey players.

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

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