Bobsleigh at the 1948 Winter Olympics – Four-man

The four-man bobsleigh results at the 1948 Winter Olympics in St. Moritz, Switzerland. The competition was held on Friday and Saturday, 6 and 7 February 1948.^[1]

Medal table

Gold	Silver	Bronze
United States (USA) USA II Francis Tyler Patrick Martin Edward Rimkus William D'Amico	Belgium (BEL) Belgium I Max Houben Freddy Mansveld Louis-Georges Niels Jacques Mouvet	United States (USA) USA I James Bickford Thomas Hicks Donald Dupree William Dupree

Results

Rank	Team	Athletes	Run 1	Run 2	Run 3	Run 4	Final
Gold	United States (USA) USA II	Francis Tyler, Patrick Martin, Edward Rimkus, & William D'Amico	1:17.1	1:19.6	1:21.4	1:22.0	5:20.1
Silver	Belgium (BEL) Belgium I	Max Houben, Freddy Mansveld, Louis-Georges Niels, & Jacques Mouvet	1:17.3	1:20.9	1:22.0	1:21.1	5:21.3
Bronze	United States (USA) USA I	James Bickford, Thomas Hicks, Donald Dupree, & William Dupree	1:17.4	1:20.7	1:21.8	1:21.6	5:21.5
4	Switzerland (SUI) Switzerland I	Fritz Feierabend, Friedrich Waller, Felix Endrich, & Heinrich Angst	1:16.9	1:21.2	1:22.3	1:21.7	5:22.1
5	Norway (NOR) Norway I	Arne Holst, Ivar Johansen, Reidar Berg, & Alf Large	1:17.3	1:20.8	1:21.4	1:23.0	5:22.5
6	Italy (ITA) Italy I	Nino Bibbia, Giancarlo Ronchetti, Edilberto Campadese, & Luigi Cavalieri	1:18.2	1:20.8	1:22.1	1:21.9	5:23.0
7	Great Britain (GBR) Great Britain I	William Coles, William McLean, Raymond Collings, & George Holliday	1:18.5	1:20.9	1:22.5	1:23.0	5:23.3
8	Switzerland (SUI) Switzerland II	Franz Kapus, Werner Spring, Bernhard Schilter, & Paul Eberhard	1:17.6	1:20.8	1:22.3	1:24.7	5:25.5
9	France (FRA) France I	René Charlet, Jean Morin, Jacques Descatoire, & Amédée Ronzel	1:18.9	1:22.2	1:23.8	1:24.5	5:29.4
10	Norway (NOR) Norway II	Bjarne Schrøen, Gunnar Thoresen, Arnold Dyrdahl, & Benn John Valsø	1:20.0	1:22.6	1:23.6	1:23.5	5:29.7
11	Italy (ITA) Italy II	Nino Rovelli, Enrico Airoldi, Vittorio Folonari, & Remo Airoldi	1:19.8	1:22.8	1:23.2	1:24.4	5:30.2
12	Argentina (ARG) Argentina I	Justo del Carril, Salvador Correa, Marcello de Ridder, & Héctor Tomasi	1:20.5	1:23.4	1:24.5	1:24.5	5:32.9
13	France (FRA) France II	Gilbert Achard-Picard, Félix Bonnat, Louis Saint-Calbre, & Henri Evrot	1:20.7	1:24.7	1:24.7	1:25.3	5:35.4
14	Czechoslovakia (TCH) Czechoslovakia I	Max Ippen, František Zajíšek, Ivan Šipajlo, & Eduard Novotný	1:20.6	1:24.1	1:25.4	1:25.4	5:35.5
15	Great Britain (GBR) Great Britain II	Richard Jeffrey, Edgar Meddings, George Powell-Sheddon, & James Iremonger	1:20.8	1:24.3	1:29.8	1:26.2	5:41.1

The competition was halted in the middle of the second round when a water pipe burst, flooding the bobrun.

References

1. "Bobsleigh at the 1948 Sankt Moritz Winter Games: Men's Four". Sports Reference. Archived from the original on 18 April 2020. Retrieved 6 April 2018.

External links

• Official Olympic Report
• De Wael results for 1948
• 1948 bobsleigh four-man results
• Wallechinsky, David and Jaime Loucky (2009). "Bobsleigh: Four-Man". In The Complete Book of the Winter Olympics: 2010 Edition. London: Aurum Press Limited. p. 162.