Gunnar Charles Garpö (13 October 1919 – 18 May 1976) was a
Swedish bobsled
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der who competed from the early 1950s to the early 1960s. He won a bronze medal in the four-man event at the
1961 FIBT World Championships in
Lake Placid, New York
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.
Garpö also finished seventh in the
four-man event at the
1952 Winter Olympics
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in
Oslo
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.
References
Bobsleigh four-man world championship medalists since 1930*Wallenchinsky, David (1984). "Bobsled: Four-man". In ''The Complete Book of the Olympics: 1896-1980''. New York: Penguin Books. p. 561.
1919 births
1976 deaths
Swedish male bobsledders
Olympic bobsledders for Sweden
Bobsledders at the 1952 Winter Olympics
20th-century Swedish sportsmen
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