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Beat Hefti

{{Short description|Swiss bobsledder (born 1978)}}

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| birth_date = {{birth date and age|1978|2|3|df=y}}

| birth_place = Herisau,[http://slimsonic.weebly.com/uploads/8/2/0/8/82086274/beat_hefti_-_article_slim_sonic_-_fr_-_revue_ec.pdf Beat Hefti.] PDF, retrieved 16 July 2019. Switzerland

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{{MedalGold|2014 Sochi|Two-man}}

{{MedalBronze|2002 Salt Lake City|Two-man}}

{{MedalBronze|2006 Turin|Two-man}}

{{MedalBronze|2006 Turin|Four-man}}

{{MedalCompetition|World Championships}}

{{MedalGold|2007 St. Moritz|Four-man}}

{{MedalSilver|1999 Cortina d'Ampezzo|Four-man}}

{{MedalSilver|2013 St. Moritz|Two-man}}

{{MedalBronze|2001 St. Moritz|Two-man}}

{{MedalBronze|2005 Calgary|Two-man}}

{{MedalBronze|2016 Igls|Two-man}}

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Beat Hefti (born 3 February 1978) is a Swiss bobsledder who has competed since the late 1990s. Competing in four Winter Olympics, he has won a total of four Olympic medals. A gold medal in Sochi (two-man, 2014), two bronze medals in Torino (two-man and four-man, 2006) and another bronze medal in Salt Lake City (two-man, 2002).

Hefti has also won four medals at the World Championships with one gold (Four-man: 2007), one silver (Four-man: 1999), and two bronzes (Two-man: 2001, 2005).

He won the Bobsleigh World Cup two-man title in 2009 and 2012.

References

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  • [http://sports123.com/bob/mo-2.html Bobsleigh two-man Olympic medalists 1932–56 and since 1964] {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20110810054549/http://sports123.com/bob/mo-2.html |date=10 August 2011 }}
  • [http://sports123.com/bob/mo-4.html Bobsleigh four-man Olympic medalists for 1924, 1932–56, and since 1964] {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20190323143804/http://sports123.com/bob/mo-4.html |date=23 March 2019 }}
  • [https://web.archive.org/web/20070929091333/http://sports123.com/bob/mw-2.html Bobsleigh two-man world championship medalists since 1931]
  • [https://web.archive.org/web/20071211002351/http://sports123.com/bob/mw-4.html Bobsleigh four-man world championship medalists since 1930]
  • {{FIBT profile|id=100438|name=Beat Hefti|archive=20161220064548}}
  • [https://bob-hefti.jimdo.com/ Website Beat Hefti]

External links

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  • {{World Athletics|14226099}}
  • {{European Athletics|14226099}}
  • {{Olympics.com profile|beat-hefti|org_archive=20201001232211}}
  • {{Olympedia|101879}}

{{Footer Olympic Champions Bobsleigh Two-man}}

{{Footer World Champions Bobsleigh Four-man}}

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Category:1978 births

Category:Bobsledders at the 2002 Winter Olympics

Category:Bobsledders at the 2006 Winter Olympics

Category:Bobsledders at the 2010 Winter Olympics

Category:Bobsledders at the 2014 Winter Olympics

Category:Living people

Category:Olympic gold medalists for Switzerland

Category:Olympic bronze medalists for Switzerland

Category:Olympic bobsledders for Switzerland

Category:Swiss male bobsledders

Category:Olympic medalists in bobsleigh

Category:Medalists at the 2006 Winter Olympics

Category:Medalists at the 2002 Winter Olympics

Category:Medalists at the 2014 Winter Olympics

Category:Sportspeople from Appenzell Ausserrhoden

Category:21st-century Swiss sportsmen

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