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.
Medal table USA IIFrancis TylerPatrick MartinEdward RimkusWilliam D'Amico Belgium IMax HoubenFreddy MansveldLouis-Georges NielsJacques Mouvet USA IJames BickfordThomas HicksDonald DupreeWilliam Dupree
Results Rank Team Athletes Run 1 Run 2 Run 3 Run 4 Final Gold 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 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 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 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 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 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 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 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 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 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 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 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 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 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 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
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.